May 2009
3 posts
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Design Thinking as a Creative Process: Technology,...
I just discovered this whole field called “DESIGN THINKING.” It’s a process for designing practical and creative resolutions for an end action/product/program that brings about improvement for a group of people. What I like about this process is that it defines itself against ANALYTICAL THINKING - because design thinking is a “creative process based around the...
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Interpretive Magic!: Ethnoconsumerism with Prof....
I must admit that although I say that technology usage is grounded in a cultural context, I struggle to operationalize “culture” for the fear of reducing it to some causal variable or some vague concept that dilutes what I am arguing. I haven’t found much solace in sociology’s linear models that isolate “culture’s” effects - as it repeats the whole...
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Interrogating the "Developing" vs "Developed"...
When speaking with others about my work, I do not use the word “developing” as a label for the countries I work in - China and Mexico (or India, where I was last year). But it’s difficult when everyone else insists on calling all places outside of the US and Europe “developing” (or even under-developed).
Who has the power to define when a country is...