Category: Ethnography of Tech

Ethnography of Tech

Chinese Chat Roulette–minus the naked bits

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

I LOVE this: If you feel like chatting via text or voice with random strangers in mainland China, and you live anywhere in the world, download the free Tencent Weixin app for your iPhone or Android phone.  My latest favorite thing to do with a few minutes of boredom: check my Weixin for any “drift bottles” that have been thrown into the digital…

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Tricia Wang, undercover migrant worker extraordinaire

Posted on by Jason Li

Follow Tricia in her adventures to put herself in the shoes of migrant workers in Wuhan and to understand youth at the borders (economically and geographically) are using technology in China.

First stop: Room, board and internet in an underground tunnel:

I’ve been touring underground tunnels looking for a short-term…

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Design + anthropology + China = parent lock PC?

Posted on by Jason Li

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Excerpt from an Adobe think tank piece written by Dori Tunstall of University of Illinois (Chicago):

An example of the nature-nurture problem in design could be determining whether physical or cultural differences might account for different responses of Chinese children and Chinese adults to a technology. The methodological approach to this problem requires both ethnographic and ergonomic research. On…

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