AoIR colleagues, There is a short, interesting article in Spiked about the appropriation of ethnography by business and government: 'Ethnography' exposed by Martyn Perks (spiked-IT, 30 December 2003) http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006E039.htm This is an old topic, and this is not a very good *analytic* treatment (it seems to recommend objectivity as a remedy for poor ethnography). However, the article is a very good *descriptive* treatment, mentioning some provocative current manifestations: real-life 'cool hunters' (see Gibson's _Pattern Recognition_), elected politicians as pseudo- ethnographers, and revisiting ethnographic approaches to understanding broadband Internet use. Christian -- http://www.niftyc.org/