Protesting for Change, #BLM
We support the protesters. Black lives matter. Working at my desk in the past few days, a fairly constant thump of helicopters and aggressive wail of sirens has...
Where is Remote Research? Ethnographic Positioning in Shifting Spaces
“There’s a lot of talk about us ‘being there’, and what that means for our practice and what that means for the type of work that we say we do. The gro...
Remote Research and the Challenge of ‘Being There’
Overview In our goal to understand meanings and practices, logics and relationships, cultural and social phenomena, our ethnographic practice hinges on ‘being...
Framing Brands and Markets: Consumer Culture Theory
Description Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) looks at consumers, brands, and markets from a social and cultural vantage point. From Sid Levy’s famous 1955 HBR ar...
Required Reading: Texts that Mattered
What texts had a profound impact on you in becoming the anthropologist or social scientist you are? I sent this query to colleagues on the anthrodesign listserv...
Accounting for Value Salon
What’s our worth? What are the rhetorics of value? This question is never far from the minds of individual practitioners and this diverse community. Value...