TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to question some of the assumptions about warm proximity which animate the idea of ethnography as a largely naturalistic mode of enquiry.Design/methodology/approach– Watching television and having a think.Findings– That the history of ethnography can be told as a process of bringing “them” closer to “us”, and this account culminates in the idea of watching a TV show as a mode of academic enquiry.Originality/value– Largely depends on whether anyone is actually convinced by the argument.
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
SN  - 2046-6749
DO  - 10.1108/20466741211220624
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/20466741211220624
AU  - Parker Martin
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Being there, teleography and The Wire
T2  - Journal of Organizational Ethnography
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 23
EP  - 30
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -