Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2008 Copenhagen | Being Seen

Explore the practices and paradoxes of (in)visibility and approaches that can expand our work.

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(In)visible partners: People, Algorithms, and Business Models in Online Dating

Elizabeth F. Churchill & Elizabeth S. Goodman

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Verfremdung and Business Development: The Ethnographic Essay as Eye-opener

Anne Line Dalsgaard

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All That Is Seen and Unseen: The Physical Environment as Informant

Lisa Reichenbach & Magda Wesolkowska

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Beyond Walking With Video: Co-creating Representation

Jonathan Bean

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Contact Lists and Youth

Matthew Yapchaian

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Design Anthropologists’ Role in SMEs: Unveiling Aptitude and Attitude

Mark Asboe

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Design Rituals and Performative Ethnography

Joachim Halse & Brendon Clark

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Drawing from Negative Space: New Ways of Seeing Across the Client-Consultant Divide

Michele Frances Chang & Matthew Lipson

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Now You See It and Now You Don’t: Consequences of Veiling Relational Work

Lisa Kreeger & Elizabeth Holloway

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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Ethnography and Selective Visibility in the Technology Sector

Laura Granka et al.

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Putting Mobility on the Map: Researching Journeys and the Research Journey

Simon Roberts

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Strangers or Kin? Exploring Marketing’s Relationship to Design Ethnography and New Product Development

Sarah J S Wilner

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Sustaining Stories: The Versatile Life of Sustained, In-house, Ethnographic Practice in a Global Software Company

Natalie D. Hanson & Johann W. Sarmiento-Klapper

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The Invisible Work of Being a Patient and Implications for Health Care: “[The Doctor Is] My Business Partner in the Most Important Business in My Life, Staying Alive”

Kenton T. Unruh & Wanda Pratt

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The Politics of Visibility: When Intel Hired Levi-Strauss, or So They Thought

Rogério De Paula & Vanessa Empinotti

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The QAME of Trans-disciplinary Ethnography: Making Visible Disciplinary Theories of Ethnographic Praxis as Boundary Object

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

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The Rise of the Techno-Service Sector: The Growing Inter-Dependency of Social and Technical Skills in the Work of ERP Implementers

Asaf Darr

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The Secret Life of Medical Records: A Study of Medical Records and the People Who Manage Them

Nathaniel Martin & Patricia Wall

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The Space Between Mine and Ours: Exploring the Subtle Spaces Between the Private and the Shared in India

Ashwini Asokan

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The Translucence of Twitter

Ingrid Erickson

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Tracing the Arc of Ethnographic Impact: Success and (In)visibility of Our Work and Identities

Donna K. Flynn & Tracey Lovejoy

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Video Utterances: Expressing and Sustaining Ethnographic Meaning through the Product Development Process

Meg Cramer et al.