Overview What is organisational culture and how does it shape how we work? Why does the business world and organisations tend to misunderstand organisational culture? How can an 'anthropological...
Genre: Talk/Seminar
Doing Analysis with Grounded Theory: A Data-Driven Approach for Qualitative Research
Downloads Materials: Session Slides Sample Transcripts 1 & 2 Codebook Template Recommended Reading: "The Power and Potential of Grounded Theory," Kathy Charmaz, Medical Sociology Online 6(3),...
Reflexive Interviewing for Consumer Insights
Overview In-depth interviews are an essential resource for consumer insights and can inform product and service design, brand management, human-technology interface, customer service, amongst others. Nothing...
Blockchain and the Social Challenge of Cooperation
Overview The value of blockchain is often expressed in terms of what it eliminates—the cost of establishing trust. Portrayed as a “trustless” technology or itself a “trust machine”, it seems to open horizons for...
Moral Crumple Zones: Agency and Accountability in Human-AI Interaction
Breathless rhetoric about AI has promised safer, more accurate systems that would take the “human out of the loop.” With more nuanced visions of AI, not to mention some high-profile catastrophes, the prevailing rhetoric now promises that keeping a “human in the loop” at key places will ensure...
Collaboration by Design: Engaging Deeply for Better Business Outcomes
Approx 71 minutes Overview A critical part of our work in the social sciences and design is to conduct activities and create artifacts that bring together the varying perspectives on the team; the shared goal is...
Mixed Methods
Approx 77 minutes Overview What are mixed methods, really? Sometimes the term refers to a set of rich and powerful research traditions; sometimes it's just a catch-all in an over-stuffed job description. Most of...
An Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology
https://vimeo.com/307521459 This webinar introduces cyborg theory and cyborg anthropology. The figure of the cyborg is, in the words of Donna Haraway, a "condensed image of imagination and material reality," and in a cyborg world, "nature and culture are reworked." A cyborg anthropology approach...