Deconstructing ethnography [electronic resource] : towards a social methodology for ubiquitous computing and interactive systems design / Graham Button, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie.
Button, Graham, 1950- author.; Crabtree, Andy, author.; Rouncefield, Mark, author.; Tolmie, Peter, author.
2015
QA76.5915
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Title Deconstructing ethnography [electronic resource] : towards a social methodology for ubiquitous computing and interactive systems design / Graham Button, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie.
Author Button, Graham, 1950- author.
ISBN 9783319219547 electronic book
3319219545 electronic book
9783319219530
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21954-7
Published Cham : Springer, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-21954-7 doi
Call Number QA76.5915
Dewey Decimal Classification 004
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 20, 2015)
Added Author Crabtree, Andy, author.
Rouncefield, Mark, author.
Tolmie, Peter, author.
Series Human-computer interaction series.
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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.

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