Ethnography

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• ChittahChattah Quickies

  
  All This ChittahChattah — Authority: 129
  Storylistening for consumer insight – There are many ways of collecting stories but here are three that may be new to you: * Anecdote circles * Naive interviewers * Mass narrative capture Collecting stories is not about finding the one perfect story that describes a brand or a consumer experience. Rather it is ...
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• Social media and political activism

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 512
  Was thinking earlier this week about how one may go about studying social media from a practice theory  perspective. For example, it would be interesting to do ethnographic reseach among social/political activists and their social media practices. Take Jeff Juris’ (2008) Networking Futures  monograph, on ...
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• Nokia has designs on India

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Nokia’s senior design specialists are touring India to discover how Indians use cellphones. Leslie D’Monte reports for New Delhi’s Business Standard. Jhanvi Madan (not her real name), who lives in Mumbai , has been talking on her cellphone. Unknown to her, a stranger on the other side of the road is observing ...
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• An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

  
  TikiRobot! — Authority: 120
  An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube is an hour-long presentation that Prof. Michael Wesch gave at Library of Congress. Prof. Wesch researches digital ethnography at KSU and previously made the famous The Machine is Us/ing Us video in 2007.
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• 0.18: Anthropology and the Rise of the Social Sciences within the Structures of Knowledge – Immanuel Wallerstein

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 115
  Professional Knowledge Creation in the World-System Building an anti-imperialist “anthropology,” plus an anthropology that studies imperialism, and that studies itself as a received invention of imperialism, means much more than just analyzing and questioning how anthropologists served this or that colonial ...
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• Using ethnography to improve user experience

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Bonny Colville-Hyde of CX Partners has written a good introductory article on the value of ethnographic research. How can you ensure your service stands out from its competitors in the marketplace as the one people want to use? One way is to uncover how your users interact with you and find new ways to support their ...
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• Food Ethnography on a Budget: Cambodia II - Nataing, Crispy Rice Cakes and Jícama Pickle

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 120
  My quest to discover new cuisines at bargain basement prices continues. Already, Ive spent more than I had expected or wanted to spend, but a lot of that has been mitigated by my choosing recipes that used ingredients I mostly have lying around. Thats an important part in saving money on grocery shopping: figure out ...
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• Dichotomous Thinking at IDEO No More

  
  shmula — Authority: 99
  Recently, Tim  Brown, the CEO at IDEO came to a realization that Design Thinking can coexist with Six Sigma and Lean.  For a while, his stance was really of black-and-white thinking: it’s either Design Thinking or Lean Thinking.  This position is akin to a student who believes that if he doesn’t earn an “A” ...
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• Is it unethical to say something about someone that they cannot understand?

  
  Savage Minds — Authority: 520
  Do anthropologists have a moral obligation to make their work accessible to the people they are writing about? The answer, to me, is an obvious ‘yes’. Although as someone who has blogged for almost a decade I seem to think that the public waits with baited breath for a description of my breakfast so I am maybe not ...
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• Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) An examination of young people’s everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and ...
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• 0.185: Terms of Incorporation, Concepts of Domination

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 115
  Phrases such as “ decolonizing anthropology ”* and “ anthropology and the colonial encounter ” have become salient in anthropology especially since they are the titles of two of the better known, most widely quoted books on the subject. What subject? That is what is lacking clarity, because presumably the ...
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• Meet Kamala Visweswaran: Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at the University of Texas

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 495
  In March 2009 nine scholars conducting research on India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan spent a day trying to envision a way to demilitarize South Asia and help the region move forward peacefully. The group published a report, Reframing a Regional Approach to South Asia: Demilitarization, Development, and Sustainable ...
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• Radio Radio

  
  JacoBlog - Jacobs Media's Blog — Authority: 124
  Old friend and veteran rock programmer, Ron Nenni, sent me an eye-opening chart, courtesy of the Silicon Alley Insider .  As you can see below, a new Nielsen analysis of a media use study conducted by the Council for Research Excellence shows that radio out-reaches the Internet on a daily basis. The ...
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• Resisting the urge to gossip

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Its easy to get caught up in gossip. A friend or colleague starts talking about someone you both know. She lays out some juicy information you havent heard before, almost baiting you to chime in. Whether its true or not, you reflexively up the ante by spilling a rumor you recently heard about that person, too. Later, ...
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• Tribal Cultures in South Asia

  
  GSA Library Art and Design News — Authority: 125
  Rare images showing rituals, festivals and everyday life for isolated tribes in the Himalayas are to be preserved online by JISC and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Highlights include the the shaman-led rituals and acrobatics of the Apatani tribe. These extraordinary moments were photographed by a ...
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• Food Ethnography on a Budget: Cambodia I - Rice

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 120
  My first excursion into this foodie self-education is an excursion to Cambodia, by way of the Elephant Walk Cookbook . The authors, Katherine Neustadt and Longteine de Monteiro, compose a cookbook that is a primer both on the recipes served at the three Elephant Walk restaurants in the Boston area, and on the ...
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• Using ethnography to improve user experience

  
  cxpartners — Authority: 441
  Ethnography is a research method that can be used to find out how to make your brand more appealing to your customers. In this blog Bonny looks at how cxpartners use ethnography to provide insights in to customer journeys.
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• Starting a new project...

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 120
  Just an update between too infrequent posts. Despite very supportive family and friends (thanks, everybody), the stress, disappointment and frustration of job searches and whatnot is getting to me. Because of that, I havent had a lot of money to spend eating out lately. Nevertheless, I am starting a new project to ...
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• Collaborative project with CSU Anthropology

  
  More to Explore — Authority: 125
  by Terry Burton, Digital Media Coordinator We’re very excited to be working with the Anthropology Department at Colorado State University on a collaborative project to delve deeper into the information we have here at the Museum about historical and contemporary Native American life in this area. This fall, ...
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• As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  “As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological,” argues Gentry Underwood, who focuses on social media and collaborative software at IDEO, in a guest article for Core77. “And with the networking of devices together, we see yet another shift—this time towards the sociological and ...
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