What just happened? Ethnography as audit

Anthropol Med. 2024 Nov 26:1-7. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2425601. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

By the time the results of an ethnography are published it almost inevitably becomes an audit of What Just Happened. The papers in this special issue reveal three insights that follow from this. An audit of the unenvisaged consequences of digital health interventions, an audit of envisaged consequences and an appreciation of the importance of context as the determinant of those consequences.

Keywords: audit; consequences; context; ethnography.