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Seeing Ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW

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While ethnography is an established part of CSCW research, teaching and learning ethnography presents unique and distinct challenges. This paper discusses a study of fieldwork and analysis amongst a group of students learning ethnography as part of a CSCW & design course. Studying the students’ practices we explore fieldwork as a learning experience, both learning about fieldsites as well as learning the practices of ethnography. During their fieldwork and analysis the students used a wiki to collaborate, sharing their field and analytic notes. From this we draw lessons for how ethnography can be taught as a collaborative analytic process and discuss extensions to the wiki to better support its use for collaborating around fieldnotes. In closing we reflect upon the role of learning ethnography as a practical hands on – rather than theoretical – pursuit.

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Brown, Barry; Lundin, Johan; Rost, Mattias; Lymer, Gustav; Holmquist, Lars Erik (2007): Seeing Ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW. ECSCW 2007: Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_22. Springer, London. ISBN: 978-1-84800-031-5. pp. 431-447. Full Papers. Limerick, Ireland. 24-28 September 2007

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Number of citations to item: 3

  • Mattias Rost, Lars Erik Holmquist (2008): Tools for Students Doing Mobile Fieldwork, In: Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008), doi:10.1109/wmute.2008.14
  • Maria José Botelho, Margaret Felis (2021): Teaching Ethnography/ically: Entanglements of Knowing/Being/Doing in a Doctoral Research Course, In: International Review of Qualitative Research 1(15), doi:10.1177/1940844721991086
  • Louise Barkhuus, Barry Brown (2012): The sociality of fieldwork, In: Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work, doi:10.1145/2389176.2389183
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