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Category: corporate & business anthropology
06/01/09
14:31:25, by Lorenz 
. Categories: corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, University / Academia What is good applied anthropology?
Most anthropologists work outside the university where they don't enjoy academic freedom. These anthropologists must be better prepared for the perils of non-academic applied work, Brian McKenna writes in Counterpunch. For good applied anthropology is be… more »
09/11/08
14:34:20, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, applied anthropology Used anthropology to predict the financial crisis
She spent a year in Tajikistan during her PhD, looking after goats. Two years ago, she predicted the current financial crisis. "I happen to think anthropology is a brilliant background for looking at finance," anthropologist Gillian Tett, assistant edito… more »
28/06/08
17:17:54, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology Motorola anthropologists develop social TV
Some years ago, the researchers observed how people talked on the phone while watching the same TV show. Now Motorola-anthropologist Crysta Metcalf and her team are designing a Social TV, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The researchers designed a prototy… more »
21/05/08
20:22:56, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, Us and Them, media, youth, internet How to get more young readers? Associated Press turns to anthropologists
The number of young newspaper readers is declining. In order to better understand the behaviors of young readers, Associated Press commissioned a team of anthropologists to follow 18 young individuals around the world and examine their media habits, the… more »
13/04/08
01:34:11, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), media, internet Why the head of IT should be an anthropologist
(via Bits and Bytes) The true value of IT will come not from information or technology per se but from the social side. Therefore anthropologists and other social scientists will become more important to Information Technology (IT) Departments than IT it… more »
26/01/08
Anthropologist: Investors need to understand the tribal nature of banking culture
Can anthropology help us to understand the current Wall Street crisis? Of course. Anthropologist Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times. "It is undoubtedly an unusual background for a financial journalist", she writes:
Indeed, whe… more »
29/11/07
10:55:53, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, corporate & business anthropology, Us and Them, University / Academia, ethics Final report launched: AAA no longer opposes collaboration with CIA and the military
(post in progress) The American Anthropological Association (AAA) sounds quite diplomatic in its final report on the growing ties between the military and anthropology. The report was released yesterday at the annual AAA meeting and says:
There is no… more »
15/11/07
03:08:50, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology How anthropological research can reduce the paper usage in offices
Another example of anthropologists in product development: As a consequence of anthropological research, Xerox is developing a new kind of paper where the printed information simply disappears within about 16 hours, allowing the paper to be reused.
W… more »
02/07/07
16:27:30, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology Timo Veikkola - The Anthropologist as Future Specialist
Things are changing: See how an anthropologist is introduced in this story: "As many anthropologists these days he holds a strategic position inside a global corporation." Juliana Xavier writes about Timo Veikkola - anthropologist at Nokia. His jobtitle:… more »
14/05/07
21:30:10, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, anthropology (general) Eight anthropology careers: Life outside the university
Where do anthropologists work outside the university? And how do you get a relevant job? Andreas Lloyd has been at the annual Career day at his old anthropology department (University of Copenhagen) and gives ut a great summary of eight presentations and… more »
22/02/07
17:50:04, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, interdisciplinary Job offer: Anthropologists needed for development of tools for ageing populations
Anthropologist Simon Roberts at INTEL in Ireland asked me to blog about this job offer (pdf) that actually is a good example of applied anthropology. "The jobs will suit people who are interested in working at the exciting intersection of technology, med… more »
04/10/06
15:54:07, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia This is conference blogging!
Why haven't there been such blog posts about the recent EASA-conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists)? Anthropologist Grant McCracken has presented a paper at the EPIC-conference (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) and written… more »
27/08/06
22:13:37, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, cyberanthropology, internet Microsoft anthropologist: Let people be online at work or risk losing stuff!
Anne Kirah, a senior Microsoft anthropologist, says IT staff believe they’re supporting workplace productivity by limiting private use of the Net. But they may be doing the opposite. Companies that filter Internet access or block IM communications are go… more »
19/07/06
23:58:24, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, youth, cyberanthropology, internet E-mail has become the new snail mail - Text Messaging on Rise
E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder - a parent, teacher or a boss - or to receive an attached file. But email is increasingly losing favor to instant and text messaging, according to an ap-article:
Much li… more »
26/06/06
16:31:50, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), University / Academia Study: "Holders of social anthropology Ph.D.s are highly employable"
"Anthropologists escape into the wider world" is the title of a press release about a recent study that shows that "holders of social anthropology Ph.D.s are highly employable and successful in finding jobs that draw on their anthropological skills".… more »
06/06/06
00:27:30, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, corporate & business anthropology, fieldwork / methods, ethics, internal notes Trying to catch up... (notes)
(post in progress) Threatening deadlines prevented me from updating this blog as often as I should/ would like to and I haven't checked the news for a while. Here are at least some of recent blog posts:
Alex Golub: Article on the Ipili in the Ottowa C… more »
12/05/06
01:42:08, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), University / Academia, ethics Neoliberal applied anthropology: Who owns the research — the anthropologist or the sponsor?
At the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings this year Hugh Gusterson had a startling experience: A “practicing anthropologist” refused to tell me him who or what, she studies. That has never happened before. In the article Where Are We Going? Engagi… more »
11/05/06
Anthropologists find out why we (don't) buy organic food
As part of its ongoing market research efforts, a Seattle-based company employs a dozen anthropologists and sociologists. Every one of them has a Ph.D. The researchers are accompanying consumers on their supermarket trips and peeking in their refrigerato… more »
04/04/06
01:10:11, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, applied anthropology Popular IT-anthropologists: Observe families until they go to bed
Intel recently advertised four anthropologist openings and had more than 300 applicants, including top-notch researchers from the best schools according to Union Tribune San Diego. The newspaper portrays several IT-anthropologists, among others Anne Kira… more »
22/03/06
Two more Anthro-blogs and an anthropological consultancy
My so-called anthropology newspaper is getting more and more crowded. The most recent addition is Cultural commentary", a blog by anthropologist Marcel J. Harmon. He is partner and founding member of the consultancy Human Inquiry, that "applies anthropol… more »
23/02/06
00:47:57, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology INTEL is hiring more than 100 anthropologists
(via Gumsagumlao and anthropology.net ) It has become so commonplace to read about INTEL using anthropologists, that I've overlooked this news: INTEL in the process of hiring more than 100 anthropologists and other social scientists to work side by side… more »
07/02/06
01:00:25, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), ethics "The White House should hire an anthropologist"
Anthropologist Fazia Rizvi points to an article by Maureen Dowd where she argues that the White House should hire an anthropologist:
Corporations have begun hiring anthropologists to help them improve product designs and interpret markets. And clearl… more »
15/01/06
23:49:29, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology An anthropologist at an architecture firm
(via Putting People First) Peter Merholz at Peterme.com writes about an "enjoyable dinner brought together by local members of the anthrodesign mailing list". He was particularly excited talking to an anthropologist who's started working for an architect… more »
30/11/05
23:09:34, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, internet Virtual Armchair Anthropology: Trend Watching Fieldwork Online
"I predict that we will slowly see the return of the “armchair anthropologists” Malinowski so famously dethroned." The reason: "The web offers a tremendous, and ever growing database of lived experience", Kerim Friedman wrote in an earlier post on Savage… more »
20/11/05
Ethnography for Marketers: "A pretty tragic book"
Ethnography is a buzz-word in the marketing industry. But do anthropologists and markerters have the same understanding of what it means to be a good ethnographer? Maybe not according a new book that anthropologist Simon Roberts from Ideas Bazaar review… more »
17/11/05
12:55:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology INTEL and Microsoft conference "a coming-out party" for ethnography
It's no longer news that high-tech companies are deploying ethnographers and anthropologists. The first-ever Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC), organized by ethnographers at Intel and Microsoft was held at Microsoft's campus on November 1… more »
27/10/05
22:36:20, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, Asia, Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, internet INTEL-ethnographers challenge our assumptions of the digital divide
(via Bits and Bytes Interesting story by INTEL-etnographers Tony Salvador and John Sherry (one of them - Sherry - is actually an anthropologist!) on their work in India, Peru and Hungary. They summarize some of their findings after four years circling th… more »
17/10/05
Ideas Bazaar about to shut down
Just a quick note. The Ethnographic consultancy Ideas Bazaar located in London, shuts down is 'gracefully winding down' as Simon Roberts puts it. In his most recent blog post, he shares some final personal thoughts about running a business on your own, w… more »
07/10/05
12:52:31, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology Tagging and Folksonomies: Xerox Scientists Apply Insights From Ethnography
An older story from last summer: In a (cryptic) press release, Xerox writes that they have used insights from ethnography in product development:
Employing the same ethnographic methods used to observe the social order on a Polynesian atoll or documen… more »
03/10/05
00:31:21, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, development empowerment, ecology nature, applied anthropology, anthropology (general) Pacific Ethnography - Anthropology research consultancy on Human and Environmental Interaction
(Via my site statistics) Most anthropological research consultancies concentrate on design and business anthropology. Pacific Ethnography do conduct consumer product research, but they provide human environmental impact research as well and work with no… more »
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