How are users (or non-users even) involved in shaping that technology? In modifying or using it according to their needs? Pay attention to non users, mostly for those of you investigating new and fast evolving technologies

The specific requirements are in the annex. It is not necessary to complete a full copy, just the individual portion.

Requirements: 12345

Semester-Long Research Project: Ethnography of Technology in Everyday Life

(40% of the final grade)

Working, EthnoTopic: Computer, Information and communication Technologies Category

Cellular phones

Part one: Ethnography; Users and usages (Week 1-6).

State and specify the research observation techniques used, when, where, and plausible social categories/statuses of the people observed.

Note such things as the place, location, situation, and time of usages, the names given to the artefact, and so on.

Note: I don’t accept surveys for the ethnography, nor do I accept online research… unless your chosen artefact is an online application requiring online observations – the working paper has to be based on primary sources, obtained through direct/participant/experimental observations, and /or interviews

Lecture notes:

Each member of this group shall submit their own notes. The group shall write a collaborative report for our ethnography research on cell phones that will be written together. The report shall be submitted together, and each member will contribute to writing out the report together instead of dividing the work into different sections which is common for group assignments.

Example of how you can outline your research while doing research:

Each group member should understand different theories of technological change and how to apply them to real life observation and research.

To help further you understand I highly recommended reading Bijker Wiebe “introduction” for the course readings found in ARES.

Breaking down your outline into different sections helps you to organize your research, findings, hypothesis, observation, the setting, your theoretical analysis with applied theories, ideologies and concepts learned in the beginning of class.

This will ensure you apply what you learned in the lectures and course readings in order to demonstrate a vast understanding of the class material etc…

Example of how to organize your search with a chart:

Theories to consider for our research on cell phones

I.E, Technological determinism, The social construction of technology (SCOT), Technological progress; I.E, (the age of machinery),

Investigate and answer the following seven (7) required questions:

1- How are users (or non-users even) involved in shaping that technology? In modifying or using

it according to their needs? Pay attention to non users, mostly for those of you investigating new

and fast evolving technologies

2- Where, with whom, and in what situation are they using it?

3- Is it used in conjunction with another technology?

4- Does its use entail any kind of knowledge, training or expertise?

5- Are the users relying on user guides, owner’s manual, or any set of instructions?

6- Is it gender specific? Technologies are also often gendered, they may be designed as such or

used differently by men and women. Many of you may want to investigate this.

7- How does using that technology, or even its very existence, change the lives of the individuals

interacting with it? Of other people?

This working paper is due on Brightspace before midnight on

October 11 (Week 6). It should be well-organized and include the following three parts (stapled or bound together):

(a) Your preliminary analysis (based on the above required questions), 5-6 typed and double-

spaced pages.

(b) Each teammate’s set of ethnographic field notes (observations/interviews), appended and

properly identified* Each team member has to contribute to the ethnography and produce an

individual set of field notes.

(c) A preliminary bibliography of at least three academic journal articles or books related to your

technology.

The working paper will be assessed with reference to:

1- The quality and breadth of your ethnographic field notes (20pts)

2- Your preliminary analysis (20pts)

3- The inclusion (for future references) of at least three journal articles or books related to your

technology in the preliminary bibliography (3pts)

4- Academic presentation and documentation: cover page, page numbering (excluding the cover

page and the bibliography), and proper format for the bibliography (name of author (listed in

alphabetical order), publisher, publication place and date, and page numbers, as applicable).

(7pts)

For a total of 50 points, 15% of the final grade

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