Draft proceedings of EPIC 2014 conference online

The 2014 edition of EPIC, the premier international gathering on the current and future practice of ethnography in the business world, will take place in New York next week.

The draft proceedings have just been posted. Here is the table of contents:

Papers 1: Ethnographic Cases | Dawn Nafus, Curator

• A Perfect Storm? Reimagining Work in the Era of the End of the Job – Melissa Cefkin, Obinna Anya, Robert Moore
• Manufacturing Expertise for the People: The Open-Source Hardware Movement in Japan – Matt Krebs
• Corporate Care Reimagined: Farms to Firms to Families – J.A. English-Lueck, Miriam Lueck Avery
• “Co-Creating Your Insight: A Case from Rural Ghana” – Evan Hanover

Pecha Kucha 1: Exchange

• China Over/Under: Exploring Urban China’s Informal Markets – Zach Hyman
• The Concierge Diaries: Research by Analogy – Derek Kopen
• Bodywork and Productivity in Workplace Ethnography – Sam Ladner
• Pathfinder: An Adventure at the Interface of Design and Business – Erick Mohr
• Everyone’s Trash: Recycling in China – Molly Stevens
• Trapped in Traffic: A Story About Finding Connection on the Go – Nora Morales, Santiago Negrete

Papers 2: Place and the City | Kate Sieck, Curator

• Service Designing the City – Natalia Radywyl
• Community Centered Design: Evolving the Mission of the Creative Industry – Jacqueline Wallace
• Place and Small Businesses: Reflections on Ethnographic Research in and on Place – Josh Kaplan
• Ethnography Inside the Walls: Studying The Contested Space of the Cemetery = Annika Porsborg Nielsen, Line Groes

Papers 3: Rituals, Magic, Politics and Power | Simon Roberts, Curator

• Business, Anthropology, and Magical Systems: The Case of Advertising = Brian Moeran
• Consulting Against Culture: A Politicized Approach to Segmentation – Marta Cuciurean-Zapan
• The Model of Change: A way to Understand the How and Why of Change – Johanne Mose Entwistle, Mia Kruse Rasmussen
• Quotidian Ritual and Work Life Balance; an Ethnography of Not Being There – Jo-Anne Bichard, Paulina Yurman, David Kirk, David Chatting

Pecha Kucha 2: Value

• Saving Journalism from Churnalism – Gordon Baty
• How Being Rather Than Doing Can Add Value – Marlisa Kopenski Condon
• On Empathy, and Not Feeling It – Tiffany Romain, Tracy Johnson, Mike Griffin
• Well, That Was Awkward! The Value of Discomfort – Marta Cuciurean-Zapan, Evan Hanover
• Collateral Revelation – Paul Ratliff
• i remember you NOW. i remember you HOW – Sara Jo Johnson

Papers 4: Emerging Practices & Methods | Curator: Martin Ortlieb

• Making Change: How Ethnographic Research on the “Maker Movement” Can Change the Future of Computing – Sue Faulkner, Anne McClard
• You’ll Never Ride Alone: The Role of Social Media in Supporting the Bus Passenger Experience – Paul Gault, David Corsar, Peter Edwards, John D Nelson, Caitlin Cottrill
• Digital Trust: An Analysis of Trust in the Adoption of Digital Support Services – Emilie Glazer, Anna Mieczakowski, James King, Ben Fehnert
• Little Data in a Big Data World – Julie Norvaisas, Jonathan (Yoni) Karpfen

Papers 5: Evolving and Expanding the Value of Ethnography in Industry | Curator: Martha Cotton

• Anticipatory Ethnography: Design Fiction as an Input to Design Ethnography – Joseph Lindley, Dhruv Sharma, Robert Potts
• Transforming a Financial Institution: The Value of UX Professionals – Erin O’Loughlin, Gina Lucia Taha, Michele Visciola
• Valuable Connections: Design Anthropology and Co-Creation in Digital Innovation – Mette Gislev Kjaersgaard, Rachel
• Charlotte Smith – Iterating an Innovation Model: Challenges and Opportunities in Adapting Accelerator
  Practices in Evolving Ecosystems – Julia Haines