Deconstructing Ethnography Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Button, Graham, Crabtree, Andy (Author), Rouncefield, Mark (Author), Tolmie, Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:Human–Computer Interaction Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Building the Social into System Design
  • Ethnography as Cultural Theory
  • ‘New’ Ethnography and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Interpretation, Reflexivity and Objectivity
  • The Missing What of Ethnographic Studies
  • Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Design
  • Members’ Not Ethnographers’ Methods