Updates
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A new chapter: hFord in oxFord
After four months of travel to visit friends in amazing places and visiting some wild places on my own, I have at last settled down in Oxford for my next adventure: three or four…
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Where does ethnography belong? Thoughts on WikiSym 2012
First posted at Ethnographymatters On the first day of WikiSym last week, as we started preparing for the open space track and the crowd was being petitioned for new sessions over lunch, I suddenly thought that…
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“Writing up rather than writing down”: Becoming Wikipedia Literate
Stuart Geiger and I will be presenting our paper about Wikipedia literacy in Linz, Austria for WikiSym 2012 (link below). It’s in the short paper series in which we introduce the concept of of…
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What does it mean to be a participant observer in a place like Wikipedia?
This post first appeared on Ethnography Matters on May 1. The vision of an ethnographer physically going to a place, establishing themselves in the activities of that place, talking to people and developing deeper…
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Update on the Wikipedia sources project
This post first appeared on the Ushahidi blog. Last month I presented the first results of the WikiSweeper project, an ethnographic research project to understand how Wikipedia editors track, evaluate and verify sources on rapidly…
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DataEDGE: A conversation about the future of data science
First posted at the Google Policy blog. With all the hype around “Big Data” lately, you may be inclined to shrug it off as a business fad. But there is more to it than…
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A sociologist’s guide to trust and design
This post first appeared on Ethnography Matters Trust. The word gets bandied about a lot when talking about the Web today. We want people to trust our systems. Companies are supposedly building “trusted computing”…
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Online reputation: it’s contextual
This post was the first in a new category for Ethnography Matters called “A day in the life”. In it, I describe a day at a workshop on online reputation that I attended, reporting…
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