Simtech 08 poster submission: digital upheavals: ethnographic studies on digital-DIY activity

Ely, Philip (2008) Simtech 08 poster submission: digital upheavals: ethnographic studies on digital-DIY activity. In: International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies 2008 (SIMTech '08), 20-21 Nov 2008, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK.. (Unpublished)

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Simtech 08 Poster Submission: Digital Upheavals: Ethnographic studies on digital-DIY activity, Phil Ely. (41kB)
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Ely, Philip

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Home Interaction Research Cluster

Description/Abstract:

This poster describes current work-in-progress on a digital-DIY research project, exploring how people experiencing life-change configure and re-configure their domestic entertainment, information and communication technologies. The project draws upon a number of theoretical concepts from human-computer interaction, the social construction of technology, material culture and design studies to understand the digital-DIY phenomenon and is methodologically rooted in the ethnographic tradition. This poster describes early pilot-study work utilizing Blythe et al’s (2002) ‘Technology Biographies’ method applied to (amongst other pilot studies) the author’s own autoethnographic study of moving home and concludes with a summary of themes and concepts emerging from this early data. The poster presents proposals for future empirical studies of people experiencing life-change.

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