Deconstructing Ethnography: Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design

by Graham Button, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331937365X
• ISBN13: 9783319373652
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"