Multi-sited ethnography as a middle range methodology for contemporary STS

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 652-671

  Hine, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Intervention; Laboratory; Middle range; Multi sited

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548997151     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243907303598     Document Type: Article

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