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How a 10-Day Silent Meditation Course Made Me a Better Researcher

How a 10-Day Silent Meditation Course Made Me a Better Researcher

by Shipra Kayan | Jan 12, 2017 | PechaKucha

PechaKucha—This talk is an illustration of my journey from being a dejected, sole researcher in a chaotic 300 person startup to a place where I learned not only how to be a better interviewer, but also a more effective and influential employee. Shipra Kayan has over a...
How Asking About the Best Ice Cream Reveals Ourselves

How Asking About the Best Ice Cream Reveals Ourselves

by Jennifer Ng | Jan 12, 2017 | PechaKucha

PechaKucha—As an author of a book about ice cream around the world, I am often asked this question: What is the best ice cream? I am often stumped. I know that they want something that they don’t know from the “expert”. So when I hesitantly answer, I would give my...
LOLZ OMG, I’M DEAD. The Rise of Performative Behavior in Social Media, and Its Implications for Digital Ethnography

LOLZ OMG, I’M DEAD. The Rise of Performative Behavior in Social Media, and Its Implications for Digital Ethnography

by Kathleen Hartnett | Jan 12, 2017 | PechaKucha

PechaKucha—Performative behavior is an action taken specifically with an audience in mind, to elicit a response or reaction. Digital Ethnography encounters this on a daily basis, as we study behavior on social & digital networks where performative behavior is...
Paradoxical Thinking as a Gateway to Socio-Cultural Insights

Paradoxical Thinking as a Gateway to Socio-Cultural Insights

by Elizabeth Anderson-Kempe | Jan 12, 2017 | PechaKucha

PechaKucha—Paradoxical thinking can reveal complex emotions and beliefs, even self-contradictory behaviors. It can also provide a gateway to the socio-cultural forces that underpin a topic. In a project on IT security, we encountered a participant whose paradoxical...
Looking to Right-hand Women: Strategies for Shaping Impactful Paths in Business

Looking to Right-hand Women: Strategies for Shaping Impactful Paths in Business

by Natalia Silva, Hannah Pick | Jan 12, 2017 | PechaKucha

PechaKucha—This visual ethnography explores the hypothesis that some women in business subvert traditional power relationships by using existing stereotypes and all other tools at their disposal to become “right-hand women.” Drawing from examples of famous women in...
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