by AnneMarie Dorland | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
This paper questions the role and form of ethnography in the studio setting through a comparative analysis of interviews with service and brand designers, and the promotional rhetoric of the studio organizations in which they work. It proposes that the way in which...
by Amir-Pouyan Shiva | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
This paper provides an ethnographic understanding of users in the Persian blogosphere through the framework of the carnivalesque. The repertoire of concepts provided by the carnivalesque draws attention to (1) the significance of the material, (2) the dynamic,...
by Rachelle Annechino, Tamar Antin | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
In the last ten years, an eclectic mix of electronic nicotine delivery products (‘e-cigarettes’) and practices have proliferated in the US with little restriction, producing a vast array of vaping mechanisms, flavors, and styles. At the same time, anti-tobacco...
by Shaheen Amirebrahimi | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
This paper examines how ethnographic praxis as a means for driving social change via industry, went from a peripheral, experimental field, to a normalized part of innovation and product development – only to be coopted from within by a new language of power. Since the...
by Ciara Green, Laura Polazzi, Erin O’loughlin, Vittoria Traverso | Jan 13, 2017 | Paper
This paper presents a clear and flexible model for understanding the concept of patient-centricity. This model emerged from our own ethnographic work in healthcare contexts, and was tested and strengthened with a literature review and interviews with experts and...
