Tag: ethnographic observation

• November 28, 2014

  The dark side of Silicon Valley

  California’s booming tech industry has created the most extreme wealth disparity in America. Josie Ensor investigates the tale of two cities By Josie Ensor, San Jose, California 6:00AM GMT 26 Nov 2014 Jimmy hands $2 worth of dimes to the conductor and finds a seat at the back of the bus. He settles himself in…

• October 29, 2014

  We live in a social system that allows men appropriate common spaces

  We live in a social system that allows men appropriate common spaces and consider women bodies a public property just for the simple fact of being in the street.

• August 14, 2014

  Collective ethnographic experiment in inner city Amsterdam

  Research Network on Qualitative Research (RN20) to organize a ethnographic experiment (based on Mass-Observation project) during the next ESA midterm conference and by the own conference participants. It seems to me a great idea! The observation will focus on diversity performances in inner city Amsterdam. Really, I see this methodology as applicable to other conferences. Here I paste…

• April 30, 2014

  Mass-observation project

  Mass-Observation was a United Kingdom social research organisation founded in 1937. Their work ended in the mid-1960s but was revived in 1981. The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex. Mass-Observation aimed to record everyday life in Britain through a panel of untrained volunteer observers who either maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires…

• April 13, 2014

  Social Media in Social Research 2014 – 4th annual conference

  The SRA is pleased to announce the 4th annual conference on Social Media in Social Research. This one-day event at the British Library in central London will feature these presentations: Uninformed consent and social media research.  Dan Nunan, Henley Business School. In social media research, is informed consent possible without limiting access to the most valuable…