Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Genre: PechaKucha

Trapped in Traffic: A Story about Finding Connection on the Go

Trapped in Traffic: A Story about Finding Connection on the Go

Nora Morales is an information design professor and researcher at Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City. Her research interests include visual narratives and computer mediated collaboration for generating methods and tools in locative and time-based media. She also collaborates as a...

Collateral Revelation

Collateral Revelation

Our work of investigating experience is rarely directed at personal transformation. The impact we seek to create is not specific to our participants or intended for them alone, if at all. We don’t go into the field to midwife individual discovery or revelation, and this may be why we don’t notice...

Saving Journalism from Churnalism

Saving Journalism from Churnalism

In keeping pace with online trends, news is being churned out to meet quota and to satisfy website metrics. When putting out content becomes more important than it's quality and value for the local community, it's called Churnalism. Fortunately, ethnographic research reveals an alternative path....