References:
Reflexivity in Digital Anthropology by Jennifer A. Rode.
Published in the CHI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems.
Author Bio:
Jennifer Rode is an assistant professor at Drexel's School of Information
Summary:
Hypothesis:
That anthropologists can apply ethnographies to HCI and contribute to the field.
Methods:
There wasnt really an experiment per se. More of a talk about hypothetical situations
Results:
The author basically says that rather than observing technology, they can observe the role that technology plays in society. The author describes several methods of writing in an ethnography. These are Positivist, Reflexivity, Realistic, Confessional and Impressionistic.
Content:
Dr Rode talked about the various ways that ethnography can be applied to the field of computing. She also discusses the various styles of writing, and the advantages and disadvantages. Finally she ties it together by using examples of how ethnographies have been used in HCI.
Discussion:
This paper was horribly boring. When reading about experiments it is at least interesting to observe their results and the process by which they conducted the experiment. This was simply a very long argument for ethnographies, which presented very little empirical data. Overall i dont feel like i took anything away from this paper.
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