Building a Useful Research Tool: An Origin Story of AEIOU
It is awfully nice not to have to invent a basic tool over and over again. For ethnographers, coding and categorization is work that has to happen whether you a...
Beyond the Fabulous Wealth and Celebrity Acclaim: Success in Consultancy
I’d like to take a slightly approach to this topic from those of my co-panelists. I’m not going to talk about success as ‘an ethnographer,’ which I’m ...
Considering Ethnography in Various Business Settings – What Is Success?
Between Hype and Promise: Two Decades of Becoming The invitation to participate in this panel has been an occasion for a personal reflection on where we...
A Little Humility, Please
“Things, not, mind you, individual things, but the whole system of things, with their internal order, make us the people we are.” Danny Miller, Stuff (p. 53...
“Let’s Bring It Up to B Flat”: What Style Offers Applied Ethnographic Work
Ethnographic and design work share, deeply, the challenge of conveying the truth of the work we do to interlocutors from very different backgrounds. Writ...
Let’s Have A Conversation
As an introductory set of remarks for the theory session, this short paper sets up some issues facing both the field of ethnography applied in industry and thos...