Ethnography

Ethnography, My del.icio.us, Social Media
links for 2009-02-12
02.13.09 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

Anthropology and Activism in Pakistan with lullabies - A great example of Anthropology being used in Activism:”A few days ago, Pakistani anthropologist Samar Minallah lauched a “video song”, a tribute to little girls in all the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan where schools are being destroyed, depriving girls of their right to education, The News [...]
Ethnography, Qualitative Research Perspectives
Ethnographers or Bricoleurs?
11.15.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Dr. Aviva Rosenstein - “Fake Ethnography vs Real Ethnography” at URF08 from bolt peters on Vimeo.
In a review of the User Research Friday Talks, Celeste Roschuni provides a recap of Dr. Rosenstein’s talk:
….. and finished with the idea that it’s more important to be doing good research than to be doing “real ethnography.” [...]
Ethnography, Mashups, Social Media
Mashup for Ethnography
11.12.08 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

Here’s a very neat mashup of GoogleEarth and Twitter for ethnography (it’s in French). @thiteu sent me the link on Twitter.

This work is a simulation of a 3 dimensional Geography using GOOGLE EARTH and of a social signal using TWITTER in ethnography nowadays.
Cool? Yeah. Imagine Second Life sort of re-enactments of the whole world [...]
Ethnography, Uncategorized
Seeing the world through people’s eyes
11.10.08 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

Gabriel Biller & Kristy Scovel from IIT Institute of Design, Chicago have a neat video called Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer. It’s long - about 30 minutes but great for anyone who wants a good primer on conducting ethnographic research and interviewing.
Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer from [...]
Ethnography, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
YouTube, Qualitative Research & Ethnography
11.03.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

Interesting intersections between YouTube, qual research and ethnography. Visual observations and reporting have always been very powerful in research. Some recent explorations and projects around this:
YouTube as a Qualitative Research Asset: Reviewing User Generated Videos as Learning Resources
by: Ronald J. Chenail, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida [Source: The Weekly Qualitative Report Volume 1 [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Enterprise 2.0, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
Blogs for Market Research
05.13.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

We’re now working with another tech company on a research project which will include blogging and the use of twitter for both participants and researchers who are located all over the world. Some issues we’re grappling with:

how much coaching and of what kind is required for those participants who are not actively using blogs [...]
Enterprise 2.0, Ethnography, Frameworks & Models, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
Virtual Ethnography Thoughts
05.13.08 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

Thought I’d share something we worked on last year - almost at the same time Twitter came into its own. and before we thought up Twitter for Ethnography.
We spent some time developing an SMS-Blog research prototype with Srinivas Mogalapalli at Netcore (Rajesh Jain’s company), built upon the MyToday SMS platform.
This was a module in a [...]
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 | 7 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 interested [...]
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 real [...]
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 [...]