Presentations

Industry Presentations

User Research in the Business Context

Please learn more about this presentation at Philadelphia University through the press release linked above and at right.

Sustaining Stories:  The Versatile Life of Sustained, In-house, Ethnographic Practice in a Global Software Company

Pursuant to the EPIC conference theme of ‘visibility’, this paper explores the opportunities and challenges faced by in-house ethnographers in making their expertise and their data visible.

Academic Conference Presentations

Market Discourse and the Evolution of Corporate Anthropology

This SfAA paper presents a brief overview of the concept of market discourse, and provides one case study showing how that discourse plays out inside corporations.

Across the Wall: Anthropologists & Technologists at Work Together

This well-attended SfAA panel paired an anthropologist with a fellow engineer, and asked the two to explore the nature of their collaboration, while reflecting on their successes & failures.

The Challenges of Power in Practice: A Storytelling Session

This panel explored the challenging power dynamics of the corporate context.

Where are Anthropologists in the Chronicle of Corporate Change?

[coming soon]

Anthropology & Innovation in the High Tech Sector

This panel explored the different ways that anthropologists are engaged in Research & Development (or Innovation) in the high tech industry.  This panel was the catalyst for the formation of anthrodesign!

Electronic Communication: Implications for Human Interaction and Social Change

This paper explored the way existing research on communication technologies and linguistics could begin to inform the study of the online context.