Deconstructing Ethnography by Graham Button

Deconstructing Ethnography by Graham Button

This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological apparatus of the social sciences distort the social and cultural world as lived in and understood by ordinary members, whose common-sense understandings shape the actual milieu into which systems are placed and used.

In Deconstructing Ethnography the authors show how ‘new’ calls are returning systems design to ‘old’ and problematic ways of understanding the social. They argue that systems design can be appropriately grounded in the social through the ordinary methods that members use to order their actions and interactions.

This work is written for post-graduate students and researchers alike, as well as design practitioners who have an interest in bringing the social to bear on design in a systematic rather than a piecemeal way. This is not a ‘how to’ book, but instead elaborates the foundations upon which the social can be systematically built into the design of ubiquitous and interactive systems.

Mark Rouncefield is Senior Research Fellow in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK Peter Tolmie is Principal Consultant for Ethnographic Services at the University of Nottingham, UK

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ISBN 13	9783319373652
ISBN 10	331937365X
Title	Deconstructing Ethnography
Author	Graham Button
Series	Human-Computer Interaction Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2016-08-23
Number of pages	178
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