Sometimes, there is such a thing as “Good Enough.”
Tagged with “ethnography”
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RIEP6: Draft Aesthetics (MP3, Complete) « Rapport: The Informal Ethnographer Podcast
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Jeffrey Veen – Designing our way through data | Web Directions
The hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more:
* What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today? * How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against? * How do we really incorporate users into our practice of user experience? -
2007 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture - Anthropology is Not Ethnography
This lecture took place on 14 March 2007
Professor Timothy Ingold, FBA, University of Aberdeen
Anthropology has been shrinking. Once an inclusive inquiry into the conditions of human life, it has increasingly turned inwards on itself. One reason for this shrinkage lies in the identification of anthropology with ethnography. Such identification leads us to think of observation as a means to the end of description. The lecturer will aim to show, to the contrary, how description not just literary but graphic and performative - can be re-embedded in observation. Overturning the relation between observation and description will enhance anthropology’s potential to engage with biology, psychology and archaeology on the great questions of the origins and destiny of humankind.
Download the entire paper here: http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/tfiles/825683A/154p069.pdf.
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Cyber Anthropology sxsw podcast
Have you ever wondered what the staying power of your favorite social networking site was? Or, perhaps why over 9 million people play World of Warcraft? What about Twitter and why 140 characters just seems to work? Ever been curious about the explosion of webcomics, blogs, or podcasts? Or, perhaps considered what impact the Internet has had on your daily life? The lives of your children and their education? The lives of people all over the world? Ever given thought to how law or politics influences the web or how the web may influence them? What about intellectual property, digital property rights, or the viability of open source software? How about hot topics such as net neutrality, censorship, or the digital divide?
It is exploring these questions and more that motivates me, my name is Diana Martin, and I am a Cyber Anthropologist.
Tagged with anthorpology ux ethnography sxsw
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Soft studies and sharp design
Lunar’s Gretchen Anderson and independent researcher Lisa Leckie discuss how soft research and ethonographic studies affect design.
Tagged with ethnography interaction design