Ethnography Matters: Welcome to Oscar Grant Plaza
A couple weeks ago I woke up at five in the morning to what sounded like a battalion of helicopters overhead. It was not the first time. Whenever there’s been a protest in my downtown/uptown Oakland...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: The Invisibility of Ethnography
What are ethnography’s doings? I mean, really, how do you describe what exactly an ethnographer does? S/he watches people? Explains people’s feelings? Translates cultural ideas into concrete stuff?...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: IDEO.org Opens 2012-2013 Call for Fellows
IDEO is opening it’s call for fellows at Ideo.org. This seems like a great opportunity for ethnographers to apply! reblogged from Public Interest Design: IDEO.org has issued its second annual call for...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Technology Unfolds Over Time
Many ethnographers stick to one place or region throughout their careers. Perhaps the memory of the trials and travails of entering the field in the first place, of early incomprehension and...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Data conversations: Can ethnographers do numbers?
I was grappling for a long time about how to approach numbers, statistics, patterns in my Wikipedia research. I’m an ethnographer, right, we’re supposed to be averse to using numbers. Right? And then...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Qualitative research is not research at all?
Heather pointed out these comments by Bob Garfield from a recent broadcast of On the Media (“Sentiment Analysis Reveals How the World is Feeling“): I’ve been arguing for years that qualitative...
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