This case study offers strategies for navigating internal frictions within research teams faced with sensitive...
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Sangharsh: (nm) Struggle; Conflict, Friction: Creative Workarounds in Friction Arising from Patriarchy!
India is a country of people belonging to varied socioeconomic backgrounds. Patriarchy is very much evident in...
The Motherload
The Motherload is a look at the realities of contemporary motherhood in the time of post-pandemic pressures,...
The Giving Caregivers: Resilience as a Double-Edged Sword in the Context of Healthcare
In this paper we challenge an assumption about caregivers of chronic patients that we’ve repeatedly encountered in our ethnographic fieldwork: that of the inherently and permanently resilient caregiver, or a...
Hysterical Health: Building Ethnographic Expertise for More Equitable Innovation
A centuries-long legacy of myth and misinformation about women’s bodies continues to shape society and permeate the innovation of products, services and policies. Embedded into our thinking are the ideas that women’s bodies are inferior and weaker, that women are difficult to understand, and that...
Change the Category, Change the World: How Research and Great Storytelling Drove a Headline-Making World First for Supermarkets
PechaKucha Presentation—The butterfly effect – a small change that has big ripples. This is what Jennie Leng created when she persuaded NZ’s largest supermarket to change its language from “sanitary products”. Phrases like “sanitary products” and “feminine hygiene” are ubiquitous around the world,...
What Will 4 People Think / Chaar Log Kya Kahenge
PechaKucha Presentation—This paper raises the implications of simplifying algorithms for scale and uplifting content that is damaging for human evolution. Technology is powerful because of its scale and also disempowering for the same reason. Scale is in the variables and online media, in the zest...
Toxicity v. toxicity: How Ethnography Can Inform Scalable Technical Solutions
While a number of scholars have studied online communities, research on games has been mostly focused on the business, experience, and content of gameplay. Interactions between players within games has received less attention, and toxic behavior is a newer area of investigation in academia....
Do I Have to #MeToo? The Productivity of Silence in Instances of Sexual Harassment and Assault in Field Research
- How did you two meet again? - Let’s head back to the yacht club for sunset. - What happened to that bottle of champagne? - Please don’t fall off the boat. - Live music doesn’t have the same raw character here. - Tahni, go deal with your friend. - What happened to that bottle of champagne? -...
The Root Cause is Capitalism… and Patriarchy
Case Study—The authors used anthropology and other design research methods to develop a new kind of study to capture the world of professional creatives and the people they work with. To uncover core collaboration challenges for professional creatives the authors asked them to walk through past...