Button / Crabtree / Rouncefield Deconstructing Ethnography

Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-21954-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Reihe: Computer Science (R0)

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Button, Graham

Crabtree, Andy

Rouncefield, Mark

Tolmie, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;8
2;Contents;10
3;About the Authors;12
4;Chapter 1: Introduction;14
4.1;1.1 Ethnography Considered Harmful;14
4.2;1.2 Deconstructing Ethnography;19
4.3;1.3 Volume Structure and Content;23
4.4;References;27
5;Chapter 2: Building the Social into Systems Design;29
5.1;2.1 Systems Design and Social Science;29
5.2;2.2 The Turn to Ethnography;34
5.3;2.3 Why Should Systems Designers Care?;44
5.4;References;49
6;Chapter 3: Ethnography as Cultural Theory;52
6.1;3.1 New Calls, Old Ways;52
6.2;3.2 The Beginnings of Ethnography in Anthropology;55
6.3;3.3 Social Structure and Culture;59
6.4;3.4 Consequences;65
6.5;3.5 Social Science Is Not Privileged;68
6.6;References;69
7;Chapter 4: ‘New’ Ethnography and Ubiquitous Computing;71
7.1;4.1 Ethnography as Cultural Tourism;71
7.2;4.2 Old and New Visions for Ubiquitous Computing;78
7.3;4.3 Messiness and Infrastructure;84
7.4;References;93
8;Chapter 5: Interpretation, Reflexivity and Objectivity;95
8.1;5.1 Observation and Interpretation;95
8.2;5.2 Reflexivity in Ethnographic Observation;100
8.3;5.3 Objectivity and Realism;112
8.4;References;116
9;Chapter 6: The Missing What of Ethnographic Studies;119
9.1;6.1 Scenic Description;119
9.2;6.2 The Missing Interactional What;126
9.3;6.3 The Ongoing Relevance of the Missing What;132
9.4;References;140
10;Chapter 7: Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Design;142
10.1;7.1 Ethnography and Ethnomethodology;142
10.2;7.2 Social Science and Common-Sense;150
10.3;7.3 Common-Sense in Its Own Right;154
10.4;7.4 Anchoring Systems Design in the Social;160
10.5;References;162
11;Chapter 8: Members’ Not Ethnographers’ Methods;165
11.1;8.1 Ethnomethodology and Design;165
11.2;8.2 Members’ Methods as a Design Resource;173
11.3;8.3 Members’ Methods and Ubiquitous Computing;179
11.4;8.4 Conclusion: Eyeless in Gaza;182
11.5;References;184