The authors if this blogpost series are Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard — PhD fellow in Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen, Clara Rosa Sandbye — PhD fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, and Emilie Gregersen — MSc student in Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen. The trio has been working as a part of the interdisciplinary research project DISTRACT, studying the dynamics of issue attention at a political festival.
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 5
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”. In this series, we, a group of anthropologically trained junior scholars, discuss some of the opportunities and challenges we faced when collecting ethnographic data in a week-long, interdisciplinary case study of the Danish democratic festival “The People’s Meeting”. We took on a somewhat different approach to the classic anthropological fieldwork, and in {+}