Ethnography is now one of the key approaches used within the CSCW community to specify the role of computer based systems in work practice. Yet what ethnography involves as a program of inquiries is only discussed in a piecemeal way in the literature. This paper attempts to make up for that absence by describing one fieldwork program (or programme) developed over a number of projects in which ethnography has been allied with computer systems and work practice design. The discussions will be of interest to both expert practitioners of ethnography and novices.
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The Organisation in Ethnography –A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW
%0 Conference Paper
%1 346627
%A Harper, R. H. R.
%C Norwell, MA, USA
%D 2000
%I Kluwer Academic Publishers
%J Comput. Supported Coop. Work
%K cscw ethnography methodology
%N 2
%P 239--264
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008793124669
%T The Organisation in Ethnography --A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW
%U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=346627&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=67328496&CFTOKEN=94937210
%V 9
%X Ethnography is now one of the key approaches used within the CSCW community to specify the role of computer based systems in work practice. Yet what ethnography involves as a program of inquiries is only discussed in a piecemeal way in the literature. This paper attempts to make up for that absence by describing one fieldwork program (or programme) developed over a number of projects in which ethnography has been allied with computer systems and work practice design. The discussions will be of interest to both expert practitioners of ethnography and novices.
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abstract = {Ethnography is now one of the key approaches used within the CSCW community to specify the role of computer based systems in work practice. Yet what ethnography involves as a program of inquiries is only discussed in a piecemeal way in the literature. This paper attempts to make up for that absence by describing one fieldwork program (or programme) developed over a number of projects in which ethnography has been allied with computer systems and work practice design. The discussions will be of interest to both expert practitioners of ethnography and novices.},
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address = {Norwell, MA, USA},
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journal = {Comput. Supported Coop. Work},
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pages = {239--264},
publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
timestamp = {2009-12-22T12:22:57.000+0100},
title = {The Organisation in Ethnography --A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW},
url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=346627&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=67328496&CFTOKEN=94937210},
volume = 9,
year = 2000
}