Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

ARNOLD, JEANNE E.; Graesch, Anthony P.; RAGAZZINI, ENZO; Ochs, Elinor

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“…Ethnoarchaeology is a methodology that involves the ethnographic study of contemporary cultures, focusing on relationships between human behaviors and material contexts. See Arnold, et al [1].…”

Section: Developments In Visual Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Visual research methods and communication design

McNely

2013

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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Visual research methods include a variety of empirical approaches to studying social life and social processes, including communication and documentation. Developed largely in anthropology and sociology, visual methods typically involve the use of photography, videography, and drawing in qualitative studies of lived experience. Despite the use of visual methods in related fields such as CSCW, HCI, and computer science education, such approaches are underdeveloped in studies of communication design. In this paper, the author provides a historical and theoretical overview of visual research methods before detailing three interrelated approaches that may be productively applied to work in communication design. The author then illustrates how these approaches were adapted to communication design studies in industry and academe before describing implications for future work in this area.

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Section: Developments In Visual Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Visual research methods and communication design

McNely

2013

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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“…The problem is a wellknown and still unresolved one: anthropologists have felt the need to expand their inquiries to contexts that do not easily fit the mold of analytical concepts and methods originally designed to study small-scale societies. Calling for an "anthropology of the contemporary," as some of our colleagues have done (e.g., Rabinow 2008; Rabinow and Marcus 2008), opens a space for self-reflection but does not solve the problem of keeping up with our times, which are defined by technologies more complex than ever before and an unprecedented abundance of material culture (including all kinds of "gadgets") in our everyday life that overwhelm individuals and families (e.g., Arnold et al 2012). The main problem in anthropology-with exception made for archaeologists who usually work in teams-is the assumption that an individual researcher can capture the complexity of contemporary life, whether at home, in the workplace, in the classroom, at large public events (e.g., sports matches), or on the Internet.…”

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Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality

Wilf¹

2013

Current Anthropology

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This article argues that contemporary, computer-mediated, algorithmic forms of sociality problematize a long and major tradition in cultural anthropology, which has appropriated the notion of artistic style to theorize culture as a relatively distinct, coherent, and durable configuration of behavioral dispositions. The article's ethnographic site is a lab in a major institute of technology in the United States, in which computer scientists develop computerized algorithms that are able to simulate the improvisation styles of past jazz masters and mix them with one another to create new styles of improvisation. The article argues that the technology that allows the scientists to simulate and mix styles is playing an increasingly important role in mediating contemporary forms of sociality over the Internet and that the anthropological tradition that has theorized culture as artistic style has to be reconfigured to account for the dynamic nature of these contemporary forms of sociality not as styles but as styles of styling styles.

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“…In an anthropological study of 32 middle-class Californian homes, a team of researchers made detailed descriptions of domestic life and stuff (Arnold et al 2012). The first household assemblage they analysed had 2260 visible possessions in the first three rooms that were documented (two bedrooms and the living room), not counting all the stuff which was out of sight in lockers, closets or drawers.…”

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2016

Consumption Markets & Culture

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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

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Visual research methods and communication design

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