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.
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.