Suzanne L Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3650541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne L Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Intel (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Zoom Fatigue
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
Algorithms as fetish
Algorithms are powerful because we invest in them the power to do things. With such promise, they can transform the ordinary, say snapshots along a robotic vacuum cleaner's route, into something much more, such as a clean home. Echoing David Graeber's revision of fetishism, we argue that this easy slip from technical capabilities to broader claims betrays not the "magic" of algorithms but rather the dynamics of their exchange. Fetishes are not in…
Pechakucha
Imagine you are on stage. Behind you 20 slides flash by, 20 seconds each. It's six minutes and forty seconds of you and your slides in glorious real-time bringing an idea, inspiration, thought or passion to life. It's PechaKucha. In 2013, your EPIC compatriots walk you down the path of a changing Brixton neighbourhood, wake you up from a nap in China, watch you be born and die digitally and, thankfully, get you out of jail
Pecha Kucha - PLACE & Culture
Session 4
There is longevity to the ethnographic arts: a report referred back to over years, an image that captures a resiliently fresh insight. In crude words, ethnographic analysis has a longer shelf life than traditional market research. The latter requires tending to keep its categories replete with a fresh cast of characters. The former is distinguished by a methodological practice that keeps it fresh and truthful without the necessity of being, for t…
Session 1 - Reflecting our roles, skills and ethics Hiroshi Tamura (Hakuhoda, Japan), Curator
Staying relevant (to the business) is at the heart of career-advancement and (increasingly) job-security, particularly, in a business unit. It embodies a number of different meanings to the different players in corporate-from supporting product definition to creating strategic plans to making the appropriate business decisions. Rather surprisingly, though, we find EPIC talking about it with a certain discomfort, particularly when it comes to affe…
Skillful Strategy, Artful Navigation & Necessary Wrangling
This paper addresses three main issues: the fixation on the individual in corporate research, the emic need to privilege and represent relationships driving the political and cultural economic lived experience and the pressing need to find useful, effective ways engage corporate structures that otherwise are impervious to "views of the collective". That is, we argue for a reframing of ethnographic work in industry (in some instances) from that of…
Algorithms as fetish
Algorithms are powerful because we invest in them the power to do things. With such promise, they can transform the ordinary, say snapshots along a robotic vacuum cleaner's route, into something much more, such as a clean home. Echoing David Graeber's revision of fetishism, we argue that this easy slip from technical capabilities to broader claims betrays not the "magic" of algorithms but rather the dynamics of their exchange. Fetishes are not in…
Session 1 - Reflecting our roles, skills and ethics Hiroshi Tamura (Hakuhoda, Japan), Curator
Staying relevant (to the business) is at the heart of career-advancement and (increasingly) job-security, particularly, in a business unit. It embodies a number of different meanings to the different players in corporate-from supporting product definition to creating strategic plans to making the appropriate business decisions. Rather surprisingly, though, we find EPIC talking about it with a certain discomfort, particularly when it comes to affe…
Beyond Zoom Fatigue
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
Session 4
There is longevity to the ethnographic arts: a report referred back to over years, an image that captures a resiliently fresh insight. In crude words, ethnographic analysis has a longer shelf life than traditional market research. The latter requires tending to keep its categories replete with a fresh cast of characters. The former is distinguished by a methodological practice that keeps it fresh and truthful without the necessity of being, for t…
Skillful Strategy, Artful Navigation & Necessary Wrangling
This paper addresses three main issues: the fixation on the individual in corporate research, the emic need to privilege and represent relationships driving the political and cultural economic lived experience and the pressing need to find useful, effective ways engage corporate structures that otherwise are impervious to "views of the collective". That is, we argue for a reframing of ethnographic work in industry (in some instances) from that of…
Skillful Strategy, Artful Navigation & Necessary Wrangling
This paper addresses three main issues: the fixation on the individual in corporate research, the emic need to privilege and represent relationships driving the political and cultural economic lived experience and the pressing need to find useful, effective ways engage corporate structures that otherwise are impervious to "views of the collective". That is, we argue for a reframing of ethnographic work in industry (in some instances) from that of…
Session 1 - Reflecting our roles, skills and ethics Hiroshi Tamura (Hakuhoda, Japan), Curator
Staying relevant (to the business) is at the heart of career-advancement and (increasingly) job-security, particularly, in a business unit. It embodies a number of different meanings to the different players in corporate-from supporting product definition to creating strategic plans to making the appropriate business decisions. Rather surprisingly, though, we find EPIC talking about it with a certain discomfort, particularly when it comes to affe…
Session 4
There is longevity to the ethnographic arts: a report referred back to over years, an image that captures a resiliently fresh insight. In crude words, ethnographic analysis has a longer shelf life than traditional market research. The latter requires tending to keep its categories replete with a fresh cast of characters. The former is distinguished by a methodological practice that keeps it fresh and truthful without the necessity of being, for t…
Pecha Kucha - PLACE & Culture
Pechakucha
Imagine you are on stage. Behind you 20 slides flash by, 20 seconds each. It's six minutes and forty seconds of you and your slides in glorious real-time bringing an idea, inspiration, thought or passion to life. It's PechaKucha. In 2013, your EPIC compatriots walk you down the path of a changing Brixton neighbourhood, wake you up from a nap in China, watch you be born and die digitally and, thankfully, get you out of jail
Algorithms as fetish
Algorithms are powerful because we invest in them the power to do things. With such promise, they can transform the ordinary, say snapshots along a robotic vacuum cleaner's route, into something much more, such as a clean home. Echoing David Graeber's revision of fetishism, we argue that this easy slip from technical capabilities to broader claims betrays not the "magic" of algorithms but rather the dynamics of their exchange. Fetishes are not in…
Beyond Zoom Fatigue
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)