Category Ethnography

AI, Ethnography

The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box

Angèle Christin argues that we can explicitly enroll algorithms in ethnographic research, which can shed light on unexpected aspects of algorithmic systems - including their opacity. She delineates three mesolevel strategies for algorithmic ethnography.

Experientia
17 Aug 2020

AI, Book, Ethnography, Innovation, Media

[Book] Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms

The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news.

Experientia
17 Aug 2020

Book, Devices, Ethnography, Socio-cultural change

[Book] Smartphones: Une enquête anthropologique

Sur la base d'une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.

Experientia
11 Jun 2020

Book, Data, Ethnography, Research

[Book] All data are local

In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, we should approach data sets with an awareness that they are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at hand, for audiences that are conditioned to receive them, says Yanni Alexander Loukissas, Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech.

Experientia
31 May 2020

Culture, Ethnography

The changing role of home during crisis

In the first Constellation of Future Matters, the team of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab of Monash University considers various aspects, from different perspectives, of the home during crisis.

Experientia
29 May 2020

Ethnography, UserResearch

Where is remote research? Ethnographic positioning in shifting spaces

Last week EPIC people gathered for a panel discussion on remote research to share guidance and inspiration as many of us take on new, remote positions. Here are some of the approaches we discussed, grouped in four themes with resources from epicpeople.org and beyond.

Experientia
25 May 2020

Ethnography, Experientia, HCD / UXD, UserResearch

How to gain impactful insights with remote user research?

Experientia's Stefano Galeazzi and Daria Cantù explore how to conduct impactful applied qualitative research remotely, when we may not be able to conduct in-person interviews - as is the case now during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Experientia
22 Apr 2020

Ethnography, Health, UserResearch

Doing fieldwork in a pandemic

Initiated by Deborah Lupton, this crowdsourced document provides necessary information and key resources for researchers struggling to conduct traditional face-to-face research under new circumstances.

Experientia
19 Mar 2020

Ethnography, Technology (general)

Special issue on digital ethnography

This special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research collects the confessions of five digital ethnographers laying bare their methodological failures, disciplinary posturing, and ethical dilemmas.

Experientia
2 Mar 2020

Cities & Infrastructure, Culture, Ethnography, Experientia, Italy, Participation, Service design, Socio-cultural change, Turin

The first of a thousand nights – ToNite project opening event

Presentation event on 14 February in Torino of the European project that aims to improve the liveability of the areas around the river Dora

Experientia
4 Feb 2020

Cities & Infrastructure, Culture, Ethnography, Experientia, Italy, Participation, Service design, Socio-cultural change, Turin

La prima di mille notti. Evento di inaugurazione progetto ToNite

Evento di presentazione del progetto europeo che intende migliorare la vivibilitÃ delle aree attorno al fiume Dora

Experientia
3 Feb 2020

Conference, Ethnography, Experientia, HCD / UXD, Interaction design, Italy

Experientia workshop at Interaction 20 conference in Milan

On Tuesday 4 February Experientia will run a half day workshop on netnography and digital ethnography for Interaction 20 participants.

Experientia
27 Jan 2020

Business, Ethnography

Tricia Wang on why the big data mentality fails – and what to do about it

Tricia Wang of Sudden Compass pokes holes in big data hype, arguing for the course-correcting power of thick data. I share podcast highlights, such as her dismantling of "data-driven" infatuations.

Experientia
18 Jan 2020

Ethnography, Public services

Human-centred policy? Blending “big data” and “thick data” in national policy

How might policymakers better understand citizens' perspectives when designing policy? Put another way, how should we improve and innovate the way policy is made to ensure it becomes more human-centred?

Experientia
18 Jan 2020

Devices, Ethnography, Research, Socio-cultural change

Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing

The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing, a multi-sited research project based at UCL Anthropology, employs a team of 11 anthropologists conducting simultaneous 16-month ethnographies in Ireland, Italy, Cameroon, Uganda, Brazil, Chile, Al-Quds, China, and Japan.

Experientia
23 Dec 2019

AI, Behavioral sciences, Ethnography

The anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence

The algorithms that underlie much of the modern world have grown so complex that we always can’t predict what they’ll do. Iyad Rahwan, who directs the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, proposes…

Experientia
27 Aug 2019

Business, Ethnography, Innovation

When ethnography becomes a joke

For a number of years, we have witnessed a diminishing appetite for ethnographic work among commercial clients, writes Patricia Sunderland, PhD and founder of Cultural Research and Analysis, on the site of the Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA). Competition and…

Experientia
4 Apr 2019

Book, Devices, Ethnography, HCD / UXD, Technology (general), UserResearch

[Book] Left to Our Own Devices

Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus Margaret E. Morris MIT Press, 2018 192 pages Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with…

Experientia
11 Jan 2019

Data, Ethnography, Health, Healthcare, Sustainability, Technology (general), UserResearch

Intel anthropologist Dawn Nafus interview on the use of data and technology in medical contexts

In an age where we can collect and store (forEVER) every second of every day, how much do we truly need to learn? To react? To do good deeds that benefit society? Assuming we champion that, what does it mean…

Experientia
22 Dec 2018

Business, Design (general), Ethnography, HCD / UXD, Innovation, Service design

Journal of Business Anthropology devoted to design anthropology

The Journal of Business Anthropology is an Open Access journal which publishes the results of anthropological research in business organizations and business situations of all kinds. The theme of the latest issue – Vol 7, No 2 (2018) – is…

Experientia
20 Nov 2018

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