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My article on understanding organizational culture is now up on the interaction design site, Johnny Holland. The post provides an overview of key factors in organizational culture and how these factors affect an organization’s culture. It’s specifically intended to help designers understand their clients’ business culture and to avoid the all-too-common trap of “missing the [...]

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Categories: anthropology · culture · facebook · interaction design · product design · qualitative research · sociology · technology design

May 1st is Open-Access Anthropology day. My contribution to this day:
It  is well past time to knock down the closed walls of the Ivory Tower.

Years ago, I worked on a project called The Public Knowledge Project. The principal investigator, Dr. John Willinsky, was actually a professor of literacy (and a distinguished one at that). John [...]

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Categories: anthropology · sociology

I’m currently forming research questions for an ethnography of Toronto-based technology and design workers. I am working through this question: is Twitter a “place”?
In her 2000 book Virtual Ethnography, Christine Hine argues that there are two analytic strategies to see “cyberspace.” First, one can view it as a “place,” where social norms emerge. Or second, [...]

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Categories: design · ethnography · product design · qualitative research · social media · technology design · user experience

Thousands of people arrive at this blog wanting to know what is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative versus quantitative research is by far the most popular post on this blog. In that first post, I explained why sample size doesn’t matter in qualitative research. In this post, I explain why qualitative research [...]

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Categories: Research Methods · qualitative research · quantitative research

I am currently teaching a Research Design and Qualitative Methods course at Ryerson University. This is a core course for an interdisciplinary group of students, from social work, to business, to psychology, to sociology to…well you get the picture.
I will be uploading slides from my lectures regularly. See them all at:
http://www.slideshare.net/sladner
I have toyed with adding [...]

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Categories: Research Methods · design · qualitative research · quantitative research · technology design · user experience

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