Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: professional issues

Making Silence Matter: The Place of the Absences in Ethnography

Making Silence Matter: The Place of the Absences in Ethnography

Professional and organizational attention in recent years to what ethnographers can and cannot disclose as part of their research accounts has extended the range and relevance of concerns pertaining to the relation between investigators and those they study. When researchers are working under...

The EPIC 2011 Conversation

The EPIC 2011 Conversation

EPIC seems to be a group of people who share a way of thinking. And I wanted to be a part of that. —Raph D’Amico,student at IIT Institute of Design EPIC was created as a place for industry-based ethnographic practitioners to come together and take part in a conversation. Attendance is...

Keynote Address: Pedestrian Perspectives

Keynote Address: Pedestrian Perspectives

An anthropologist with a long career at the intersection of social research and business and technology, Melissa Cefkin began working on autonomous vehicles in 2015, fulfilling a life-long love of transportation matters. (Her preferred activity in a new place? Public bus rides.) She works at...

Satin Island: An Appreciation

Satin Island: An Appreciation

I will admit that as soon as I heard there was a newly published novel about a corporate anthropologist, I took the bait and grabbed a copy (metaphorically, of course, given that I in fact downloaded an e-book). How would my world and my work be represented in fiction? What truths or myths might...