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March 2013: Stories to Action Edition
Image from davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com Hello to the Stories to Action edition of Ethnography Matters (last month was the Openness edition, curated by Heather Ford)! In this post, I am speaking...
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Reaching Those Beyond Big Data
Editor’s Note: Opening up the Stories to Action edition is Panthea Lee’s @panthealee moving story about a human trafficking outreach campaign that her company, Reboot, designed for Safe Horizon. In...
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Isolated vs overlapping narratives: the story of an AFD
Heather Ford Editor’s Note: This month’s Stories to Action edition starts off with Heather Ford’s @hfordsa’s story on her experience of watching a story unfold on Wikipedia and in person. While working...
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Performing Success: When mythologies about a technology dominate first...
Morgan Ames Editor’s Note: We are lucky to have Morgan G. Ames @morgangames back from her fieldwork in South America to contribute a post to March edition of Stories to Action. Morgan gives us an...
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The Chickens and Goats of Uganda’s Internet
An Xiao Mina Editor’s Note: Memes means, “unit of cultural transmission,” and that’s what designer and artist An Xiao Mina @anxiaostudio does in the Story to Action edition of Ethnography Matters. She...
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Infra/Extraordinary: Pedibus, a school bus without a bus
The Infra/Extraordinary column is devoted to zooming in on intriguing objects and practices of the 21st Century. Adopting a design-ethnography perspective, we will question informal urban bricolage,...
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Play to Plan: mobile games to value street-level trade
Adriana Young Valdez Editor’s note: In the last post of the Stories to Action edition, urban research designer Adriana Valdez Young @thepublicagency tells us how she used stories gathered from...
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April 2013: Ethnomining and the combination of qualitative & quantitative data
Image from Fabien Girardin After the two previous editions (Openness and Stories to action), it’s now time for our April edition on combining qualitative and quantitative data. While ethnography...
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An uplifting experience – adopting ethnography to study elevator user experience
Rebekah Rousi Editor’s note: This post for the April ‘Ethnomining‘ edition comes from Rebekah Rousi, @rebekahrousi who describes how the combination of qualitative and quantitative data collection was...
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Insights from network data analysis that yield field observations
Fabien Girardin Editor’s note: This post for the April ‘Ethnomining‘ edition comes from Fabien Girardin @fabiengirardin who describes his work with networked/sensor data at the Louvre Museum in Paris....
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Plant Wars Player Patterns: Visualization as Scaffolding for Ethnographic...
Editor’s note: This post for the April ‘Ethnomining‘ edition comes from Rachel Shadoan and Alicia Dudek. Following on the past posts about hybrid methods, this one features another interesting case...
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Tweeting Minarets: A personal perspective of joining methodologies
David Ayman Shamma Editor’s note: In the last post of the Ethnomining‘ edition, David Ayman Shamma @ayman gives a personal perspective on mixed methods. Based on the example of data produced by people...
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Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal
All rights reserved Editor’s Note: This post for May’s Special Edition on ‘Talking to Companies about ethnography’ comes from Steve Portigal who has a new book out this month titled Interviewing Users....
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Persuasive Formats
I wanted to focus my own contribution to this month’s special edition (about “how to talk to companies about ethnography”) on presentation formats. That research findings will ultimately be delivered...
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Big Data Needs Thick Data
Tricia Wang Editor’s Note: Tricia provides an excellent segue between last month’s “Ethnomining” Special Edition and this month’s on “Talking to Companies about Ethnography.” She offers further...
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Virtual identity edition: Subversive attention
Eddie Vedder embraces Damien Echols(CC BY-SA CarolinaaPPaz) While working on this month’s edition on virtual identity, I’ve been reading Life After Death, Damien Echols’ memoir of a ruptured life. At...
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“The @Adderall_RX Girl”: Pharmaceutical self-branding and identity in social...
Tazin Karim Editor’s Note: Tazin Karim (@PharmaCulture) is a medical anthropologist who studies pharmaceutical culture in the US and contexts of prescription stimulant use. She is also active in the...
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Why Weird Twitter
Sebastian Benthall Editor’s Note: Sebastian Benthall (@sbenthall) is a PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information who studies collective intelligence, economics of data and information,...
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Why Digital Inequality Scholarship Needs Ethnography
Christo Sims Editor’s Note: We are excited to kick off this month’s theme on what ethnography can bring to education research with a post by Professor Christo Sims (@christosims). Christo has insights...
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July 2013: Ethnography in Education
Welcome to this month’s theme on ethnography in education research! From the promise of radio learning nearly a century ago, to the recent hype around One Laptop Per Child, to the current excitement...
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