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Deconstructing Ethnography: Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design
Graham Button
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Hardback. Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC; UYD; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
178
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Human-Computer Interaction Series
Condition
New
Weight
430 g
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319219530
SKU
V9783319219530
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