Orality, Technology, and Memory
The documentation of culture is an essential part of research and innovation – and colonialism. When we turn social experience into written language and digital...
Autonomous Vehicle Study Builds Bridges between Industry and Academia
Researchers have long explored the desirability and benefits of industry-university collaborations and acknowledge they can be fraught with difficulties. We examine...
Ethnographic Study Lifts the Hood on what REALLY Goes On inside that Car
Driverless cars—the term, the fantasy, promises a pinnacle of automotive engineering that takes the human entirely out of the picture. But the closer the technology...
Celebrating the Cutting Edge
This paper examines and celebrates the notion of the “cutting edge” as it applies to ethnographic praxis in industry. First of all, EPIC is the first-ever business...
“It Was Like a Little Community”: An Ethnographic Study of Online Learning and its Implications for MOOCs
In this time of social, technical, educational and industrial upheaval, time and space are being compressed and stretched as social actors develop new practices...