Acknowledging Differences for Design
Tracing values and beliefs in photo use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Connor Graham (0000-0003-2414-1863), Mark Rouncefield (0000-0003-4301-8393) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2010 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-99 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1559-8918.2010.00009.x |
| OpenAlex | W2012061838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper explores links between ethnographic approaches, technology design and use and values and beliefs. We document recent empirical work on the use of photographs amongst Chinese families; pointing to some differences with previous empirical studies from predominantly Western cultures and tentatively linking Chinese photo work to rather broader cultural values that may develop some 'sensitivities' for design. For some time ethnography has been interested in 'values' in methodological approaches and concerns. The notion of 'values' is also repeatedly called upon in ethnographic studies of (technology for) the home. In this appeal these studies tellingly echo Peter Winch's sentiments regarding how, in general, social life can be understood only through a understanding of beliefs. This paper documents and explicates photo work amongst Chinese families, linking the families' own explanations and comments about these practices to much wider, if particular, sets of social and cultural values and reflects on the potential influence of these values on technology design
Aesthetics · Appeal · Cultural values · Empirical research · Epistemology · Ethnography · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Engineering · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Design of Everyday Life
Language and social reality
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
Consuming Technologies
Talking about pictures
Design
The Interpretation of Cultures
Family photographs and domestic spacings
Margaret Mead and the Shift from "Visual Anthropology" to the "Anthropology of Visual Communication
Research, Performance, and Doing Human Geography
Defiant Images
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |