Human Action and the Dynamic Environment
An EPIC2020 Sponsored Panel presented by Google What does human scale mean through the lens of the environment? Alternatively, what does the scale of the Earth’s...
What’s Fair in a Data-Mediated World?
This EPIC2018 panel addresses questions of fairness and justice in data-centric systems. While the many social problems caused by data-centric systems are well known,...
Expedience, Exigence and Ethics
This is a cautionary tale featuring a well-structured memo and an effective, carefully designed infographic. Both of these artifacts could be considered excellent...
The Ethnographic Lens: Perspectives and Opportunities for New Data Dialects
Concern with “big data” and ”data at scale” has pervaded many conversations in the past few years. Conversations orient around what “big data” really...
Bridging Past and Future
Elizabeth Churchill, Director of User Experience at Google, is an applied social scientist working in human computer interaction, computer mediated communication,...
Ethnography and Process Change in Organizations: Methodological Challenges in a Cross-cultural, Bilingual, Geographically Distributed Corporate Project
We detail an ongoing, consultancy partnership, where ethnographic field methods are being used to elucidate the work practices of software engineers in a large organization....
Lead Type, Dead Type: New Patterns of Local News Production and Consumption
Newspapers are in trouble. Steep declines in circulation and advertising revenue have forced outright closures, reductions in force, cessation of print in...
(In)visible partners: People, Algorithms, and Business Models in Online Dating
A confluence of personal, technical and business factors renders priorities, practices, and desires visible – and invisible – when people use online dating sites...
Flexibility and the Curatorial Eye: Why and How Well-Documented Fieldwork Sustains Value Over Time
This paper discusses two distinguishing features of ethnographic work, program flexibility and data flexibility. These forms of flexibility deliver business benefits...