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Hi, this is where I (Tricia Wang) track my field notes and thoughts on the socio-cultural contexts of technology usage in low-income communities. More about Cultural Bytes. Cultural Bytes blogroll.

I am currently conducting ethnographic work with urban migrants in China and a rural migrant sending village in Mexico. Read more about my research. Let's Talk!

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::YouMeiTI - I blog about Chinese Youth, Media and Information Technology
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Most Popular Posts: Interrogating the "Developing" vs "Developed" Country dichotomy: Assumptions, technologies, and Americanism - VOTE FOR OPTION B!
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Most Recent Posts:
Internet cafes in China: The Closest Thing to a Playground for Migrant Children
New Product: Microsoft Mischief, an interactive student/teacher teaching tool for the classroom
Leaving for 3rd ethnographic fieldwork trip to Mexico in a migrant-sending Oaxacan village.
Corporate Responsibility in the Age of Algorithms: HP overlooks "Dark Skin" users for its new HP Cam
great quote about ethnography
Map-hole: Technologies of the Mundan and Inscriptions of Power
I'm starting to think about how to visualize my data
flash ethnography: observations of a doctor's use of mobile tech with a patient
Erving Goffman, Cellphones, Social Cohesion
Livescribe Pulse SmartPen: An Ethnographer's dream tool?
Village Technologies: Remote Fertilizer Monitoring

great quote about ethnography

All of us are watchers—of television, of clocks, of traffic — but few of us are observers. Everyone is looking; not many are seeing.

Todos somos miradores—de la tele, de los relojes, del transito—pero pocos de nosotros somos observadores. Todos estan mirando, pero no todos estan viendo.

— Peter M. Leschak”

I think this such a great quote for teaching or understanding the role of ethnography. It’s not so much about the passive act of watching but the more engaged notion of seeing - peering into something - a world - beyond yours.

I originally posted this on my quotes blog, Dichos y Vida.


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