There's methodology in the madness: Toward critical HCI ethnography

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2725-2734

  Williams, Amanda M ^a   Irani, Lilly ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

DIY; Ethnography; Methodology; Mobility; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PERIODS; ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES; FIELD WORKS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL PRACTICES; TOPIC AREAS;

COMPUTER CRIME; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77953083662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1753857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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