This thesis concerns social engagement at the intersection of open design and media technology. I conclude by emphasizing the urgent need to recognize that our scholarship matters in the larger sense, and to accept the opportunity and ethical responsibility to use our research abilities to not simply describe or explain what is or has been, but to speculate about and shape what we ought to become. I move to a more concrete discussion of how shifting one’s stance can impact not only one’s methods in the field, but also the outcome and audience of one’s inquiry. I then offer a working heuristic that illustrates research stances toward internet phenomena, which in turn illustrates some of the ways research stances may be shifting. How might our products be used as interventions rather than just descriptions, to encourage different structures and interfaces for social practice? In this chapter (draft of forthcoming piece in Denzin & Lincoln's 5th edition Handbook of Qualitative Research), I trace certain terminological shifts in how internet research has been conceptualized. The ethnographic mindset is instrumental in helping those who design our future interfaces and infrastructures understand the complexity of the human experience.
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