Ethnography Matters: The Demise of the Ethnographic Monograph?
As ethnographic practice has spilled out into the broader world of design and policy-making, business strategy and marketing, the monograph has not remained the singular format for presenting...
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The vision of an ethnographer physically going to a place, establishing themselves in the activities of that place, talking to people and developing deeper understandings seems so much simpler than...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Transcription and reflexivity
For research projects that incorporate transcripts, the transcription process can feel like a necessary evil that you have to get through in order to move on to “real” analysis. Transcribing...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: The god in small things: Ethnomethodology takes...
Our June guest contributor is an inter-disciplinary ethnographer, Barry Brown, who is well known for his work in Human-Computer-Interaction, Sociology, and Communications. He pioneered the study of...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Understanding the killer robots
Fool hu-mans, there is no escape! The Wall Street Journal did a piece last week on drones that decide whether to fire on a target, provocatively titled “Could We Trust an Army of Killer Robots?”...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Small Data People in a Big Data World (part 1 of 2)
Part I: Questions Research is hard to do. Much of it is left to the specialists who carry on in school 4-10 more years after completing a first degree to acquire the proper training. It’s not only...
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