{"title":"A Personal Research Project that Turned into My Life's Work","authors":"SHIPRA KAYAN","doi":"10.1111/epic.12182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>My journey to becoming a social impact founder that started with a simple research question – “Why didn't we see college educated refugees (who generally don't have the right to work in their host countries) work on remote work platforms like Upwork instead.” This initial question led me down an unlikely path of discovery, experimentation and entrepreneurship that I hadn't planned on. In sharing my story, I want to inspire reflection on pros and cons of getting deeply invested in your research topic, so deeply that it becomes your life's work..</p>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"465"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthro x Journo: The Value of Ethnography for Solving Journalism's Challenges","authors":"EMILY KENNEDY","doi":"10.1111/epic.12152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Today's working journalists are experiencing friction in stereo: both readers and sources don't trust them to get the story right. This friction between media and the communities they cover has always existed, but today's turbo-charged antagonism has brought this to a personal level for modern journalists just trying to do their jobs. For our democratic society to thrive, we need journalism in top form. In this presentation, trained anthropologist and magazine editor, Emily Kennedy, will show how journalism and ethnography are close kin. With audience members already familiar with ethnographic methods, this Pecha Kucha turns our focus to the creative opportunities ethnography presents for solving some of journalism's modern challenges. Let's spark creative thinking around applying anthropology to a sister discipline in need!</p>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Images & Imaginaries: Reflections on a New Paradigm of Ethnographic Images in Business","authors":"ENYA TRENHOLM-JENSEN","doi":"10.1111/epic.12159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12159","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This presentation delves into the speculated impact of AI-generated images on ethnographic practice. Navigating through the data privacy challenges associated with sharing respondent photos with clients, AI-generated images offer a unique medium for documenting and creating ethnographic imagery within a business context. However, this innovation introduces a new form of friction: where should the boundary be drawn between authentic representation and manipulation of reality? And what implications might this have on our practice at large? This presentation aspires to initiate a dialogue, encouraging practitioners to contemplate their role in adopting this technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cash as a Good","authors":"LESE AWODIYA","doi":"10.1111/epic.12189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"560"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NADINE LEVIN, MATTHEW GLIBBERY, NICHOLE LEE, LIZ AVALOS, DARCY BENDER
{"title":"Government Forms as Friction: Identifying Opportunities for Innovation at the Intersection of Staff and Public Needs","authors":"NADINE LEVIN, MATTHEW GLIBBERY, NICHOLE LEE, LIZ AVALOS, DARCY BENDER","doi":"10.1111/epic.12181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12181","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>This paper explores the friction inherent in forms as they flow between government institutions and people. Drawing on two case studies–a street vending permit form and a building permit form–we explore how forms are a nexus of different goals, needs, processes, and constraints for the delivery of government services. We show how reducing some types of friction through digitization creates other types of friction. Here friction is both destructive and generative: moments of friction crystallize conflicting needs between government constituents and institutions, and also point towards holistic opportunities to improve the delivery of government services. This paper expands the ethnographic lens to focus on both government staff and the public, while also exploring the friction ethnographers encounter as they work in complex bureaucratic settings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"448-464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/epic.12181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intergenerational Living: Thai Cultural Frictions and Taboos in Changing Times","authors":"ADISORN SUPAWATANAKUL, PIYATHEP TANMAHASMUT","doi":"10.1111/epic.12151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12151","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>As extended families grow in number, property development in Thailand increasingly focuses on single-family homes. Our client, Magnolias Quality Development Corporation (MQDC), has introduced a new property brand centered on intergenerational living, embracing the Thai traditional concept of “Katanyu,” gratitude. While the benefits of such living arrangements are widely discussed, there is limited information on the associated challenges due to their taboo nature.</p>\u0000 <p>These research projects were initiated to understand how family members coexist under one roof while maintaining their relationships, following Thai reciprocity norms. The findings reveal that intergenerational households face complex dynamics in family relationships and living spaces. These dynamics are influenced by shifting financial power and the evolving lifestyles of the younger generation. We also seek to explore how thoughtful space design can alleviate tensions within the family, fostering harmony among intergenerational families who embrace the Katanyu concept.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"50-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/epic.12151","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friction as Sneaky Power","authors":"TED MCCARTHY","doi":"10.1111/epic.12179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12179","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Friction frequently presents as a mere by-product of daily life, the innocent outcome of inefficiency or ambivalence. But it can also be employed to powerful ends, and with intent—by individuals, organizations, corporations and governments. The world is in fact rife with expressions of clandestine power masquerading as accidental frictions: designs of technology, bureaucracy and policy that guide behavior without explicitly stating an intent to do so. These “sneaky frictions” allow the individuals or organizations employing them to express power while retaining an air of innocence, and defying critique. We researchers are uniquely equipped to identify and ameliorate these frictions. How might we better do so—or perhaps even employ them ourselves?</p>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking the Wall of Engineering and Culture: Applied Qualitative Research in Software Companies of LATAM Industrial Sector","authors":"SALVADOR SUNIAGA","doi":"10.1111/epic.12174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12174","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>This report condenses the learning of more than three years of ethnographies carried out in the Latin American industrial sector. We will rely mainly on the case of a Peruvian reseller company and local representative of a global 3D engineering software solution. The complete process of research proposal, demonstration of its advantages, resistances, methodology, findings, and application toward business strategies was executed between 2017 and 2020.</p>\u0000 <p>For this research, a method called Techno-Ethnographic Consulting was planned, which combines in-depth interviews with business deliverables for informants, specifically designed to obtain qualitative data in B2B industrial companies of technological products and services when the researcher is also a technical expert.</p>\u0000 <p>The researcher was a mechanical engineer with background in business anthropology and worked within the company as a member of the organization. The reseller business style is B2B, and its clients are industrial companies with design and manufacturing areas.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"369-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/epic.12174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entangled: On the Social and Ethical Friction of Fieldwork","authors":"KATE SIECK PhD","doi":"10.1111/epic.12187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epic.12187","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>This paper asks what we owe to our teams and our informants when we engage in research with and about people. Participant-observation – the defining methodology of ethnographic praxis – has long had trade-offs resulting from the many frictions inherent in it, all of which are essential to producing the unique insights and findings of this approach As practitioners, we've often turned a blind eye to these, suggesting the significance of our work outweighs the consequences. But is that always true? This paper offers an equation of sorts for articulating and assessing the underlying forces creating friction in ethnographic research. While it does not posit an all-encompassing metric, it provides a way for researchers to be more cognizant about and deliberate with the ways we use friction in our projects.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":89347,"journal":{"name":"Conference proceedings. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference","volume":"2023 1","pages":"544-558"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/epic.12187","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}