by Andrew Richard Schrock | Apr 26, 2016 | Perspective
Article 2 in the series Data, Design and Civics: Ethnographic Perspectives The windows were dirty when I arrived on the fifteenth floor of City Hall. I had been hired as the Los Angeles’ Innovation Team’s in-house social communication researcher. My official title was...
by Carl Disalvo | Apr 19, 2016 | Perspective
This post introduces the series “Data, Design, and Civics: Ethnographic Perspectives” edited by Carl DiSalvo. With all of the civic hackathons, civic tech meetups, and civic innovation teams bustling around the world, you’d think we’d have the...
by Michael Thomas | Apr 5, 2016 | Perspective
User Experience (UX) Research and Design is a dynamic and diverse domain where designers, social scientists, and hybrids of all sorts are putting theory to work. It has successfully advanced a more holistic framing for human-centered design intervention, ideally...
by Meta Gorup, Dan Podjed | Mar 29, 2016 | Perspective
‘The bad news is that anthropology is never going to solve the global crisis,’ professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen provoked, ‘but the good news is that without us, nobody is going to because our knowledge is a crucial piece of the jigsaw puzzle.’ The EASA Applied...
by Mike Agar | Mar 22, 2016 | Perspective
[22 May 2017: We are deeply saddened to learn that Mike has passed away. If you don’t know his work, we invite you to dive into Mike’s website and learn about his tremendous research, writing, and impact. —ed.] I finally seriously joined EPIC. By...