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Ethnography, Frameworks & Models, Indian Culture, Knowledge, innovation
Learning to be … through Learning Journeys
02.01.08 | Dina | Permalink | 3 Comments

Mahatma Gandhi once said: “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
My recent experience with the Learning Journey we organised for Clients actually reinforced to me that given the right balance of content with experiential immersions and a focus on ‘how’ learning would take place, learning-to-be can begin even with just […]
Ethnography, Frameworks & Models, Market Insights, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
Twitter for Ethnography
02.01.08 | Dina | Permalink | 6 Comments

There’s a discussion on at the anthrodesign group around how best to approach a diary project. An excerpt from the initial query:
“We’ll be fielding a diary study trying to understand people’s initial experiences with a new mobile phone, particularly understanding the set up experience and the first few days of use. We are […]
Ethnography, Frameworks & Models, Indian Culture, Knowledge, Market Insights, innovation
My week on a Learning Journey
01.14.08 | Dina | Permalink | 3 Comments

I am just back from a week-long Learning Journey my colleague Shubhangi and I organised for a group of 10 very senior health-care professionals from the US who are on a Futures Task Force … it was intensive, immersive and really very rewarding. It’s been a Learning Journey for all of us - we formed […]
Blogs & Blogging, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Perspectives
Friends of my blog …
12.18.07 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

There’s nothing like blog friends to make you feel guilty about ignoring your blog!!!!! Stuart first slaps his own wrist makes his affirmations a couple of days ago, Aparna pings me today with a one-liner in her sign-off on a quick chat we had today:
“ok gotto go now - will talk more about […]
Ethnography, Social Media, Social Software Social Networks
JCMC Special Theme Issue on “Social Network Sites”
11.13.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Wow!!!! What a great collection of articles - I haven’t yet read them in detail but the titles themselves are really promising - covering a whole range of issues in the area of social networking - politics, interpersonal relationships, civic engagement, trust, copyright, community, cultural differences, mobile, And all seem to be backed by […]
Ethnography, My del.icio.us, Qualitative Research Perspectives
links for 2007-11-05
11.05.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Punk Planning: From the heart, not the head - Research in Asia
Bookmarked to read later in detail and share my views with Charles Firth who’s had some bad experiences researching in Asia, and raises some interesting issues around the impact culture has on qualitative research methods. We’ve had to train our ‘foreign’ clients often […]
Ethnography, Voices of the World, Youth Rap Insights
A Vision of Students (in the US) Today - Digital Ethnography
10.18.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

A new video from Mike Wesch, who had earlier made the fab video, The Machine is Us/ing Us. Mike Wesch’s videos explore mediated culture, seeking to merge the ideas of Media Ecology and Cultural Anthropology.

In a blog post describing this video, Prof Wesch says:
It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, what […]

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