Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events throughhybrid team ethnography
Publication date
2025-02-18
Document type
Forschungsartikel
Author
Decuypere, Mathias
Joecks, Lucas
Ortegon, Carlos
Vanermen, Lanze
Tierens, Toon
Organisational unit
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Series or journal
Learning, Media and Technology
ISSN
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
✅
Language
English
Keyword
Hybrid team ethnography
EdTech
Event
Infrastructures
Postdigital condition
dtec.bw
Abstract
This article contributes to expanding discussions on the rising hybridity of (edtech) events and, in conjunction to that, of ethnographic (edtech) event research. With hybridity, we point to the increasing postdigital condition of contemporary society. Even though such hybridity, and its methodological consequences for ethnographic research, are increasingly discussed, few attention has so far been put on how this hybridity manifests in, and is mediated through, orchestrations of data infrastructures. This article presents hybrid team ethnography as a way to study, and at the same time be intricately interwoven with, such infrastructure-mediated hybridity. Concretely, we report on an ethnography in which we studied an event in the edtech startup sector. Our findings showcase how researchers co-construct and are shaped by events, not just through dynamic interplays between physical presence-absence, but equally through data infrastructures and research(er) presentation. Moreover, they simultaneously showcase how edtech events unfold infrastructurally over space and time.
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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