Seeing ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW

Barry Brown; Johan Lundin; Mattias Rost; Gustav Lymer; Lars Erik Holmquist

doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_22

Seeing ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW

Barry Brown^*, Johan Lundin, Mattias Rost, Gustav Lymer, Lars Erik Holmquist

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECSCW 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Editors	Liam J. Bannon
Publisher	Springer
Pages	411-430
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781848000315
ISBN (Print)	9781848000308
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_22
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2007
Event	10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007 - Limerick, Ireland Duration: 24 Sep 2007 → 28 Sep 2007

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Conference	10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Limerick
Period	24/09/07 → 28/09/07

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Brown, B, Lundin, J, Rost, M, Lymer, G & Holmquist, LE 2007, Seeing ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW. in LJ Bannon (ed.), ECSCW 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, pp. 411-430, 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007, Limerick, Ireland, 24/09/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_22

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