Power Point and the Crafting of Social Data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nina Wakeford (University of Surrey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 2006 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 94-108 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| 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.1559-8918.2006.tb00039.x |
| OpenAlex | W2000970201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 15 |
In this paper I suggest that we should take a closer look at how we use PowerPoint. Authoring and presenting via PowerPoint is an invisible yet pervasive part of the work involved in corporate ethnography. Rather than being a pointer to a text elsewhere PowerPoint both produces the evidence of having done the ethnographic work as well as being expected to constitute the ethnographic analysis. The challenge of such software is not that it offers the wrong cognitive style, but that presentations are ‘thick’ social events, rather than ‘thin’ devices for knowledge transfer. Drawing on recent writing in Science and Technology Studies, these thick events can be thought of as continually creating hybrids or co(a)gents. In order to maintain a critical and reflexive practice we need to develop ways of keeping open the relationship between the researcher and the PowerPoint, such as leaving traces of our own relationship to the participants within the slides, or experimenting with different kinds of time-based media
Cognitive science · Data science · Ethnography · Mathematics education · Point (geometry · Pointer (user interface · Power (physics · Power point · Reflexivity · Social media · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Artificial Intelligence · Software
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Knowing That and Knowing How
The Weightless State
Session 1 - Reflecting our roles, skills and ethics Hiroshi Tamura (Hakuhoda, Japan), Curator
Th Anniversary Address For a feminist geography of ambivalence
Gestures around the Visual
The Hair in the Gate
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The Coming Of Age Of Hybrids
Works and lives
Who We Talk About When We Talk About Users
Craft, Value, And The Fetishism Of Method
The Baker's Dozen
Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice
Practising photography
On Making Data Social
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |