Data Moment, Enacted

Abstract

To address opportunities to work collaboratively with ethnographic material, this pa-per argues for engaging in tool-making, describes an approach we call speculative instruments, and gives an account of one such instrument we have devised in context of an multi-sited ethnography project in the field of Science at Technologies (STS). Our approach highlights and builds on the STS imperatives to attend to materialities, to human - non-human configurations, and to method assemblages (Law, 2004). Our aim is to inspire groups of loosely infrastructured ethnographers to gather themselves around instrumentalized data practices and gain an experience of coexistence with data as relation. Within this framing, we discuss a software-supported storytelling extension of an exercise given in (Dányi, Suchman, & Watts, n.d.), organized as a se-ries of data moments.