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 »
Category: "technology"
We've already heard of the TIF-woman (a new tech-savvy woman), now we read about "mousewives". A recent anthropological study (combined with nationwide polling) by Demos shows the traditional housewife has been transformed into a 'mousewife' as women d… more »
by lorenz on Aug 10, 2005 in technology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia • 1 comment »
"Rebekah Nathan" isn't the only anthropologist who is studying students.
The article in Democrat & Chronicle starts like this (quite typically for journalists who are somehow puzzeled by recent changes in anthropology)
On and off for two years… more »
by lorenz on Aug 6, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, technology, development empowerment, Regions, media, journal articles / papers, internet • 1 comment »
(via Putting People First) Worldchanging has "tracked projects that use new technologies to empower indigenous cultural survival -- from digital applications using Inuktitut, the Inuit native language, to the Aboriginal Mapping Project, which harnesses t… more »
by lorenz on Aug 1, 2005 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, Asia, applied anthropology
RedHerring
In a bid to eventually sell more chips, Intel plans to announce Monday that it has set up four new offices around the world that are staffed with anthropologists and engineers to help design computers with features for emerging markets. Tra… more »
by lorenz on Jun 3, 2005 in politics, technology, development empowerment, media, Middle East, internet
Hadi Ansari, OhmyNews International
Only four years have passed since Hossein Derakhshan, Iran's leading blogger and Internet activist, published a guide to making a weblog in Persian. Now the influence of weblogs has spread to every aspect of Iranian… more »
by lorenz on May 30, 2005 in technology, development empowerment, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers
New methods in the anthropology of science and technology is the topic of the new issue of the anthropology online journal "Anthropology Matters" that was published these days. The papers developed out of a panel at the Association of Social Anthropologi… more »
Anthropologist Dina Mehta
Today, I believe that no crisis on this scale or magnitude will ever be handled again without sms, blogs, and wikis. That social tools will become a natural extension of rapid adaptation to chaotic conditions. While tradition… more »
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