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Building a Useful Research Tool: An Origin Story of AEIOU
It is awfully nice not to have to invent a basic tool over and over again. For ethnographers, coding and categorization is work that has to happen whether you a...
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Beyond the Fabulous Wealth and Celebrity Acclaim: Success in Consultancy
I’d like to take a slightly approach to this topic from those of my co-panelists. I’m not going to talk about success as ‘an ethnographer,’ which I’m ...
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Considering Ethnography in Various Business Settings – What Is Success?
Between Hype and Promise: Two Decades of Becoming The invitation to participate in this panel has been an occasion for a personal reflection on where we...
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A Little Humility, Please
“Things, not, mind you, individual things, but the whole system of things, with their internal order, make us the people we are.” Danny Miller, Stuff (p. 53...
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“Let’s Bring It Up to B Flat”: What Style Offers Applied Ethnographic Work
Ethnographic and design work share, deeply, the challenge of conveying the truth of the work we do to interlocutors from very different backgrounds. Writ...
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Let’s Have A Conversation
As an introductory set of remarks for the theory session, this short paper sets up some issues facing both the field of ethnography applied in industry and thos...