Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: evidence

How Is Evidence Created, Used & Abused? EPIC2018 Opening Remarks

How Is Evidence Created, Used & Abused? EPIC2018 Opening Remarks

We chose Evidence as the EPIC2018 theme in part to explore this question of why some things constitute evidence and not others. There are lots of factors we could point to, but since I’m standing next to a data scientist the first one I’ll talk about is digitization. Digitization changes how...

Expedience, Exigence and Ethics

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 examples of their respective crafts—the first of technical communication, and the second of graphical information design. Both are also...

Livable Relations with Metrics

Livable Relations with Metrics

It is easy to become pessimistic, if not dystopic, about tracking technologies. The current digital services landscape promotes scoring, selecting and sorting of people for the purposes of maximizing profit. Machine logics rely on profiling characteristics and predicting actions, and management by...