The final session at the EPIC conference was a return to the original question that led to the creation of the EPIC conferences in the first place: How do we make people (stakeholders, decision makers, change agents and others) understand the value of ethnography in praxis? This was the main issue discussed when EPIC started [...]
Recently, I realized that this is blog, along with my collection of bookmarks, is becoming my outboard brain – a place to store all the interesting stuff I find and reflect upon so that I can dig it up later when I might need it. I don’t really expect that this realization will have much [...]
Found in Jyri Engeström‘s presentation on Social software: The Internet is powerful at distributing information. It lowers the transaction cost involved in social relationships and both developers and users have taken advantage of this to favor communication with more people than we would ever communicate with face to face. Social software has thus focused on [...]
A recent Bruno Latour keynote[PDF] has been making the rounds on the Anthrodesign mailing list. Called “A Cautious Prometheus?”, it is a very concise and thoughtful dissection of the changes the word and concept ‘design’ has been undergoing for the past 30-40 years, which also signals the change from “the hubris of modernity” with its [...]
There’s a good discussion over at the Savage Minds anthropology group blog in relation to the recent publication of an article discussing the pros and cons of Open Access Anthropology. The article has been written by no less than seven anthropologists using email and Google Docs to create an online collaborative space. Following the publication [...]