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Research Portfolio Workshop
(This video has been edited to protect the privacy of participants in the original session.) In this session participants learned some best practices for effect...
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Talking to Stakeholders
Presenting research is more than delivering analyzed data. The value of our work as ethnographers in industry is limited by whether or not clients and stakehold...
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Shopping as a Modern Quest
PechaKucha Presentation As Ethnographic Practitioners in Industry, shopping behavior is a frequent topic of our research. We take on the role of the consumer...
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Translating Infrastructure to Technology
I spend a lot of time thinking about mail. Actually, I don’t just think about it—I interview and observe people sending things, and it is actually more inte...
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The EPIC2015 Conversation
Every year the EPIC Board opens the published conference proceedings with a Conversation—a reflection on key ideas and passions afire at the meeting and ...
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Postal Poetry: The Significance of Stamps
Postage stamps, quickly receding in usage as we tweet our voices around the world, have for nearly 200 years been key enablers of a system that links humans by ...
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Satin Island: An Appreciation
I will admit that as soon as I heard there was a newly published novel about a corporate anthropologist, I took the bait and grabbed a copy (metaphorically, of ...
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The EPIC 2014 Conversation
Download PDF From September 7 through 10, EPIC convened in New York City at Fordham University’s Manhattan campus. This year’s conference was hosted by Ford...
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Accelerating Collaboration with Social Tools
As more and more corporate ethnographic work is crossing international borders, we are increasingly collaborating with teams that are spread across the globe. A...
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The EPIC 2012 Conversation
When we offer something to another person, community, or organization, we create the conditions for some sort of value to be created. This proposition about val...
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Renewing Our Practice: Preparing the Next Generation of Practitioners
A key aspect of renewal is disciplinary renewal though the addition of new practitioners, who can bring revitalization to our practice. To successfully land the...
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“Ethnography of Ethnographers” and Qualitative Meta-Analysis for Business
The use of meta-analytic studies has grown steadily in recent decades as a means of establishing greater confidence and robustness of social science findings, b...