… section for the Journal of Organizational Ethnography which scrutinizes the various
manifestations and roles of failure in ethnographic research. Design/methodology/approach …

… Reference to, and claims about, coding processes and validity by consensus have become
a sine qua non for design related ethnography in the CHI community. This tendency is, at …

… Fieldwork is, among other things, an act of listening to the moments when facts falter, says
Stevenson (2009) – or, as we suggest, when coherence falters and existential uncertainty is …

… that ethnography played in this research project was quite different from traditional ‘ethnography
for design… order to design processes, whereby we first carry out an ethnography of local …

… the origins and development of ethnography as a methodology, … present and reflect on
ethnographic studies conducted in the … Ethnographic field methods and their relation to design, in …

… the practice of reflexive ethnography. Therefore, using a reflexive ethnographic approach, I
… Using a reflexive approach, I analyze my ethnographic observations and informal interviews …

These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, …
These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, …

… e basis for what might be thought of as a designoriented ethnography began, initially, in
HCI and CSCW, and later fed into ubicomp research. In the late 1980s, Lucy Suchman’s now …

… design effort, can we truly consider such activity ethnography? If not, how is the field work that
… such a technology development effort different from more traditional ethnographic studies? …

… This study is designed to provide a detailed account of my auto-ethnographic research in …
A faltering school in this study is one which is not effective (fully functional) in comparison to …