Ethnography

If "ethnography" is the only way by which literature and literary criticism can be incorporated into a college curriculum or into academic scholarship, best to leave them be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The second of these, however, is utterly compelling reading, a great piece of ethnography from the projects of Chicago and in the life of the Black Kings street gang. ❋ Unknown (2009)

27Another way that ethnography is useful, particularly when it is representative of the societies of speakers whose languages are being reconstructed, is that after vocabulary data sets and fieldwork interviews are completed, the ethnographic details of particular events that occurred in recent times can be assessed as expressions of a societal feature whose occurrence has been shown to belong to a proto-language society. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(It alsomakes me think that I should assign the two books as an example of how ethnography is not just one thing, but a methodology that consists of numerous approaches to data collection and analysis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fourth, quite a bit of the book might be classified as "ethnography" today: detailed, first-person description of conditions of life of a particular group of people, based on direct interaction with them by the observer. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

So, I really hope that Dourish paper will help the field in recognizing (1) the need for "ethnography" in a form that is intended, aimed, and designed to support in a design process (i.e. design oriented ethnography). ❋ Erik Stolterman (2006)

Re: what kind of ethnography I'm doing -- I answered that question in the other thread. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I am doing a sort of "ethnography" of the school and culture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning an interdisciplinary trend to emphasise the use of methods such as ethnography to extract implications for design based on its situated context. ❋ Nikilambropoulos (2010)

I could tell from students 'faces that something wasn't working, but I couldn't work out what the problem was … Then finally someone asked a question that got it to click: many of the students, not knowing what "ethnography" was, also had no way of knowing that this was a method course. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Someone thinks an "ethnography" of the 2,000 gathered by happenstance is in order, possibly they'd like to thumb-suck about structures of white North American racism online (did you see that completely fake study in There. com the other day?!) -- something they may have a hard time ginning up this time as there are so many people who logged on from places like Turkey. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Haugbolle's book is thoughtful ethnography of social memory, based on time spent in the country analyzing a plethora of cultural records. ❋ James Denselow (2011)

However Christine Eber's ethnography gives background information on the subject of women's identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power and drinking in the Highland Chiapas, Mexico, community of San Pedro Chenalho. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the other hand, all we have in our attempt to understand a different sense of self—apart from introspection and the free play of our own imaginations—is the careful consideration of other societies and other times, that is, the evidence of ethnography and archaeology. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

If anecdote-as-hasty-generalization proof (proof as synecdoche?), then is data-mining as "truth" somehow the aggregated opposite of inductive, qualitative, ethnography? mgmt ❋ Unknown (2009)