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Category: EM/CA
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Practicing Anthropology in the Shelves: Designing Academic Libraries via Ethnography Presentation at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia PA Organizer: James Mullooly (CSU-Fresno) Chair : Henry Delcore (CSU-Fresno) Session Date & Time: 12/04/2009, 04:00:00PM – 05:45:00PM Room: Room 408, Session ID #: 5311 Session Title: Practicing Anthropology in the Shelves: Designing Academic…
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The current debate about the role of technology in the classroom is a challenging one to follow. Initially, computers were thought of as a panacea that would improve scores. Then, a backlash came when kids were found to be “screwing around”* with those very devices rather than “learning”. Now, I’m seeing a third wave where some people are realizing that not all “screwing around” is actually “screwing around”. There are…
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Are entrepreneurs actually Ferengi in disguise? Ferengi, the sniveling money grubbers of Star Trek (pictured here) seem to me to be motivated by one principle above all else: PROFIT! Conversely, entrepreneurs seem to be motivated by a different principle above all else: VALUE! The important question then becomes: Is there any difference between PROFIT and…
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The International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis http://www.iiemca.org/Thanks to Jason for this one
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In the presence of data: Conversation-analysis as ’empirical philosophy’ by Paul ten Have, University of Amsterdam http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/emca/presence.htm Thanks to Jason for this one
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For us, ANT was simply another way at being faithful to the insight of ethnomethodology: actors know what they do and we have to learn from them not only what they do, but how and why they do it. It is us, the social scientists, who lack the knowledge of what they do, and not…
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