Tracing the Action of Technical Objects in an Ethnography: Vinyls in Beijing

Q3 Social Sciences

Qualitative Sociology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-10 DOI:10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.03

Basile Zimmermann

引用次数: 1

Abstract

To do ethnography implies dealing with the agency of technical objectsi. The aim of this paper is to share a few ideas on how to tackle the one of vinyls in the particular activity that is the mix of a disc jockey. To do so, I first provide a general picture of the work of Xiao Deng, a Chinese disc jockey I observed in Beijing between 2003 and 2004. Then I present three observations of specific events that occured during that period which, I believe, bring into light not only some specificities of the agency of the technical object “vinyl” but also useful information about how one can take into account the agency of objects when doing ethnography.

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在民族志中追踪技术对象的行动:北京的乙烯基

做民族志意味着处理技术对象的代理。这篇文章的目的是分享一些关于如何处理一个特殊活动的黑胶唱片，这是一个唱片骑师的混合。为此，我首先概述一下小邓的工作，他是我2003年至2004年在北京观察到的一位中国音乐节目主持人。然后，我提出了对那段时期发生的具体事件的三个观察，我相信，这不仅揭示了技术对象“乙烯基”代理的一些特殊性，而且还提供了关于在做民族志时如何考虑对象代理的有用信息。

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Qualitative Sociology Review Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

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0.80

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12 weeks

期刊介绍： For a long time, we have observed an increased interest in qualitative sociology, and the use of an interpretive frame to understand human actions, social processes, meanings and definitions, and new social theory generally. In order to enable a free flow of information and to integrate the community of qualitative sociologists, we have decided to create an open-access, international scientific journal. Qualitative Sociology Review publishes empirical, theoretical and methodological articles applicable to all fields and specializations within sociology.