01062pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001900040245008500059260000900144300001300153362001100166520069900177650001800876773003400894180718b2008   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aUpadhya, Carol  aEthnographies of the global information economy: research strategies and methods  c2008  ap.64-72.  a26 Apr  aGlobalisation and the increasing complexity of the contemporary world have posed serious methodological problems for sociologists and social anthropologists. This paper discusses new approaches, such as "global" and "multi-sited" ethnography that aim to capture these transformations. Drawing examples from a sociological study of the Indian information technology industry and its employees, it describes the research strategies and qualitative methods that were employed and some of the problems encountered. The paper also focuses on research strategies for the study of formal organisations, especially in the corporate world, and questions of reflexivity and research ethics. - Reproduced.  aGlobalization  aEconomic and Political Weekly