Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2005 Redmond | Sociality

The inaugural EPIC conference explored the social and collective nature of people’s lives, and the theory and methods we bring to corporate settings focused on individualization and personalization of products and services.

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Accelerating Collaboration with Social Tools

Alexandra Mack & Dina Mehta

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Celebrating the Cutting Edge

Christina Wasson

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Configuring Living Labs for a ‘Thick’ Understanding of Innovation

Jo Pierson & Bram Lievens

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Craft, Value, and The Fetishism of Method

Nina Wakeford

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Ethnography and Process Change in Organizations

Elizabeth F. Churchill & Jack Whalen

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Ethnography, Operations, and Objectual Practice

Tim Plowman

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Fertile Ground: Homegrown Loyalty Makes for Globally Competitive Industry

Keri Brondo et al.

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Fieldwork and Ethnography: A Perspective from CSCW

Dave Randall et al.

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Grass Roots Campaigning as Elective Sociality (or Maffesoli Meets ‘Social Software’): Lessons from the BBC iCan Project

Stokes Jones

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Investigating Mobility, Technology, and Space in Homes, Starting with “Great Rooms”

Scott D. Mainwaring & Allison Woodruff

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Irrational Choices, Unfathomable Outcomes: Patient Ethnographies in Pharmaceutical Research

Ari Shapiro

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Let’s Have A Conversation

Rick E. Robinson

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Physical Artifacts for Promoting Bilingual Collaborative Design

Ame Elliott

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Social Relationships in the Modern Tribe: Product Selection as Symbolic Markers

Dan M. Bruner

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The Baker’s Dozen: The Presence of the Gift in Service Encounters

Brinda Dalal & Patricia Wall

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The Coming of Age of Hybrids: Notes on Ethnographic Praxis

Jeanette Blomberg

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The Worst Technology for Girls?

Wendy March & Constance Fleuriot

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To the End of Theory-Practice ‘Apartheid’: Encountering the World

Marietta Baba

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Using Photographic Data to Build a Large-scale Global Comparative Visual Ethnography of Domestic Spaces: Can a Limited Data Set Capture the Complexities of ‘Sociality’?

Simon Pulman-Jones

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Who We Talk about When We Talk about Users

Kris R. Cohen