I like 'ethnography', but feel it requires a specification.
eg: 'design ethnography'
On Jan 23, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
I've often described how I do what I for a living as "wearing
someone
else's hat" fir a while.
That could be the name. OR...
I crowdsourced for names on Twitter over the last couple of days,
and many
people continually tried to latch onto terms that already mean other
things.
David Malouf, for example, advocated hard for "ethnography", but
ethnography
is like sushi — it represents a type, not a specific thing. Lots of
people
know what ethnography is, but far fewer seem to know about this
particular
approach to doing research. I think it needs a name of its own so
that we
can reference it in conversations without having to explain it ("By
ethnography, I mean I actually did the job of a call center employee
for a
few days.")
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