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Mobile rewards: a critical review of the Mobiles for Development (M4D) literature
media/anthropology —
Authority: 415
EASA2010: Crisis and imagination (24/08/2010 – 27/08/2010) Media Anthropology Network workshop: The Rewards of Media Paper Title: Mobile rewards: a critical review of the Mobiles for Development (M4D) literature Francisco Osorio and John Postill Sheffield Hallam University Abstract: The extraordinary rate of ...3 days ago -
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
Feminist Review —
Authority: 552
By Paul Shankman University of Wisconsin Press What do Phil Donohue, a New Zealand ethnologist, three anthropologist husbands, and a small handful of Samoan girls all have in common? The answer is: Margaret Mead and their roles in a debate that has rocked cultural anthropology since 1983. The Trashing of ...4 days ago -
Food Ethnography on a Budget: Allergen-Free I: Classic Yellow Cake with Velvet Frosting
The Baltimore Snacker —
Authority: 122
Its been quite a while since Ive ventured into the kitchen specifically for the purpose of my food ethnography. Ive been quite busy with the start of the semester and, as everyone from new York City to Raleigh to Charleston, WV, will understand, Ive been even busier shoveling snow. So I have not had much time to ...4 days ago -
Corridors: From Metaphor to Ethnography
Savage Minds —
Authority: 522
It is not uncommon for us to refer to the corridors of academia as a kind of metaphor for the gossipy, informal, discourse which takes place outside of classrooms. Yet we rarely engage in ethnographic study of how academics actually use corridors. This is exactly what Rachel Hurdley has done. She wrote about her ...5 days ago -
On Reaching a Broader Public: Five Ideas for Anthropologists
Neuroanthropology —
Authority: 523
By Daniel Lende How can anthropologists reach a wider audience? Good debate on that question has sprung up in recent weeks at Savage Minds, Culture Matters, and Ethnografix. We’ve also written about this question here. Now it’s time for a synthesis. Five Ideas for Reaching a Wider Audience -Write about ...1 week ago -
Bunch of grapes or bunch of arse?
dancingmango —
Authority: 107
“We’ve got to have the ability to enable customers to share” Random London Taxi driver spouting opinion on social media “‘ere, you say you’re in IT, whatcha make of this Facebook and twitter malarky? That Stephen Fry, what a tw@t, I don’t care that he’s just woken up and brushed his teeth. Now ...1 week ago -
Ethnography
Socyberty —
Authority: 498
Ethnography Project Proposal 1 July 4th is American Independence Day, the day that our society celebrates the birth of our nation. On such an eventful day in American culture, I believe that it presents a great opportunity to observe the behavior of American citizens. I will be going to the ...1 week ago -
Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America
Feminist Review —
Authority: 552
By Ellen Lewin University of Chicago Press In this well-written ethnography, Gay Fatherhood , Ellen Lewin examines the choices and the decisions of gay fathers in America, focusing particularly on men who choose to become fathers as gay men, rather than coming out after having had children in a different-sex ...1 week ago -
Market-oriented Ethnography
Organizational Transformation by Asif J. Mir —
Authority: 128
To fully understand how customers of other cultures assess and use services, it is necessary and effective to use approaches, such as market-oriented ethnography. This set of approaches allows researchers to observe consumption behavior in natural settings. The goal is to enter the consumer’s world as much as ...1 week ago -
New media and its superpowers
Putting people first —
Authority: 529
Mimi Ito , cultural anthropologist and associate researcher at the University of California Humanities Research Institute , co-led a MacArthur Foundation-funded three year ethnographic study, the Digital Youth Project (DYP), which looked at how young people interact with new media at home, in after-school programs, ...1 week ago -
Disconnected colonial landscapes in a pre-photographic era
MediaCommons —
Authority: 117
Before the invention of photography and film, we got to know the world beyond our personal experience through the oral, drawn, painted and written descriptions of the explorers that went forth, and came back. The communication between what was experienced via the explorer’s senses, and what was subsequently ...1 week ago -
Klong Toey Market
Charles Frith —
Authority: 125
It took me a day or so to wait for this to happen when I saw it for the first time and decided to film it. Not many people can relate to what it means to be acquainted with a living deity from another culture, but if you can afford to sit out the first minute or so, I think this clip I took in Klong Toey Market of ...2 weeks ago -
Blogs & new way of communication
Digital Young —
Authority: 104
I know I have been really lazy that I haven’t been writing on my blog, but I hope you’ll findI have done a lot of stuff since then. I am currently teaching assistant in cultural anthropology & communication and working as a Public Relations department Coordinator. How does that match? I don’t know, it seems ...2 weeks ago -
Boot camp and a week of ethnographic interviews
Grant McCracken —
Authority: 480
Well, it worked I wasn’t sure what would happen when I got 80 people in a room in NYC to talked culture, about being a Chief Culture Officer and showed them 320 slides over 6 hours. Dreary? Tedious? Just not very interesting? I am probably not the most credible source, but I think it went really well. The ...2 weeks ago -
Pombe Ya NDizi, 3rd Straining
The Baltimore Snacker —
Authority: 122
I am supposed to strain that Tanzanian banana wine four times. Did it the third time last week, about a week and a half too late (thanks again, Snowpocalypse 2010). But its now thrice-strained! Ill strain it again in three weeks, weather permitting. ..........Post taken directly from the Baltimore Snacker ...2 weeks ago -
Market Research Techniques to Boost Your Brand
The Women Entrepreneurs Blog @ Simon —
Authority: 107
by Lauren Dixon Market research eliminates the guesswork associated with marketing and communication strategies. Customized and proven research techniques help companies to formulate, test, and focus their brand and marketing messages. How can you best apply market research to know what your ...2 weeks ago -
The 29 Project, aka Why I am Still Up at 3 am
Tasty Fever! —
Authority: 119
I need to go to sleep.But first, I had to actually put forth something course-related from my so-called reading week break, and this is what has been developed: The 29 Project. In it’s really rough stages at the moment, but kindly stay tuned, and if you have any anecdotes about riding the 29, it would [...]2 weeks ago -
iQ 2.0 - Dos años haciendo networking y blogueando
Insights Qualitativos 2.0 —
Authority: 128
Insights Qualitativos 2.0 surgió como un grupo en Facebook destinado a facilitar la conexión y colaboración de profesionales relacionados con la investigación de mercados etnográfica-cualitativa. El grupo se expandió rápidamente, llegando en la actualidad a reunir más de 2.000 profesionales en alrededor de 50 ...2 weeks ago -
Physical Gestures to Document Design Research
DESIGNING *for humans —
Authority: 92
As the number and variety of gestural interface applications has exploded, design researchers have been focusing more on the physical aspects of human-artifact interaction. The potential benefits of gestural interfaces - simplicity, ease of learning, memorability - are valuable to end-users, but also provide an ...3 weeks ago -
Tell it as it is?
Culture Matters —
Authority: 412
I would like to stimulate anthropological research into indigenous autobiographies after I read the following book: Peter Kenilorea, Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea, KBE, PC, Solomon Islands’ First Prime Minister . Edited by Clive Moore. Taipei: Center for Asia-Pacific Area ...3 weeks ago


