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Showing 1 to 20 of 228 for “"Ethnographic Methods"”.
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Antenatal clinic: Using ethnographic methods to listen to the voices of pregnant adolescents
… midwifery practice. Research design: Using ethnographic methods, this research positioned a midwife to observe pregnant adolescents for a period of nine months while they attended a public antenatal clinic in Western Australia. Data collection and analysis: Data from participant observation …
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Electric Car Cultures: An ethnography of the everyday use of electric vehicles in the UK
This study uses ethnographic methods to study drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK to add a user perspective to current knowledge of the developing technology of EVs. EVs have had a revival in popularity since their near extinction in the early twentieth century. There is interest from …
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"Doing design": notes on the social organization of studio life
This thesis discusses and employs the use of ethnographic approaches to design practices. General arguments concerning the use of ethnography within design research are advanced. Empirical findings, derived from the employment of ethnographic methods to a design studio setting, are used to support …
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The spoilt blood that needs nourishment : managing TB in the context of HIV/AIDS, food insecurity and social inequalities in Mbekweni, Paarl.
The use of ethnographic methods unravelled that families face multiple problems in managing the converging impact of TB, HIV/AIDS and food insecurity. The emerging themes in the conversations of many people; 'the food that nourishes the blood' and 'if there was no grant we would die of hunger' …
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"Moving like a boxer" : a study of Cape Town's boxing youth
… To answer this question, the study uses ethnographic methods to consider questions of socio-political history, precarity, embodiment, structural violence and physical violence. In the final analysis, the thesis argues for the clear benefit of having community boxing gyms in South African …
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Small-Scale Events and Everyday Multiculture in Finsbury Park
… combines computational spatial analysis with ethnographic methods to investigate the interplay among spatial configurations of the park, local management initiatives, and day-to-day social practices in shaping responses to racial differences. The research employs a longitudinal mixed-methods …
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Embodied Film and Experimental Ethnography: Place, Belonging and Performative Folk Traditions in England
… editing process. Through the use of experimental ethnographic methods, key conceptual aspects of this thesis such as performance, the embodied camera and auto-ethnography are used to investigate the complex ways that place and ritual might not only be known and understood, but are also performed …
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Exploring Symbolic Aspects Of Human-Environment Interaction In A Socially Constructed Coastscape: Sense Of Place In Coastal Maine
<p>This study uses ethnographic methods to investigate how people understand and relate to places in order to better understand the symbolic, meanings-based aspects of human-environment interaction. Through semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews, the research analyzes how stakeholders …
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Assessing Landscape Change in Highland Peru with an Emphasis on Tree Cover Change, 1948-2012
… using repeat photography, remote sensing, and ethnographic methods. Forest transition theory provided a framework to study the causes of the changes observed. The repeat photography results show that there were more trees on the landscape in 2012 than there were in 1948. There were increases in …
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The Collaborative Performance of Open Mic Poetry and the Art of Making Do
… exchange and enterprise. I conduct an autoethnographic study of the Transpoetic Playground--a reoccurring open mic poetry event in Carbondale, Illinois. This study mixes performative writing, poetry, and personal narrative with the ethnographic methods of participation observation and …
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Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.
… gaming relationships. Combining SNA with broadly ethnographic methods provided a systematic way of investigating children's peer relationships and gendered play.
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Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
… US and China, this thesis uses historical and ethnographic methods to understand how users of quantitative information encode norms about gender, ability, and race in data visualizations and search interfaces. This critical scholarship complements projects with engineering colleagues at CSAIL …
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The Processes of Learning and Teaching Cimbveka: Enhancing Music Education Practices in Primary Schools of the Southern Region of Mozambique
… potential to music education. I applied ethnographic methods as the main research method in ethnomusicological and educational research. As part of ethnographic methods, the participant observation method allowed me to engage with the participants by closely observing and interacting with …
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The design and use of Internet-mediated communication applications in education: an ethnographic study
… asynchronous structured discourse (ASD). Using ethnographic methods and data from real-word case studies. this research focuses on three related problems. First, the effective application of any technology (like ASD) within any domain of complex practice (like education) requires collaboration …
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#LeadingMamas: A Visual Ethnography
… Four participant collaborators employed visual ethnographic methods to create representations of their leader and mother identities and explored the meaning of these representations through focus groups and digital communication tools (Instagram, texting, and Facebook). The findings support …
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The social complexity of woman and child valuation in rural Bangladesh
… The purpose of this research is to document via ethnographic methods several important local effects of the shift to a wage-based economic mode from the perspective of women in terms of their roles as wives, mothers, and daughters.
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Evangelical Christian healing: an ethnographic study of identity in ‘Healing on the streets’ of Birmingham, UK.
… Christian healing as mission. I employ the Ethnographic methods of participant observation and interviewing in order to understand how the group’s activities are shaped by their understanding of space and place, how they seek to manage the boundary in different places and to discover the …
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The role of computer mediated environment and simulations in mediating consumers' personal and domestic life-worlds
… the impacts of consumption of simulations. Using ethnographic methods, it explores how Irish consumers are using simulated products in lieu of the real and tangible, and how consumption of these simulations impact on their lifeworlds. Drawing heavily upon Jean Baudrillard’s conceptions of …
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Talking black in public spaces: an investigation of identity and the use of preaching style in black pubic speech
… combines sociolinguistic, discourse analytic and ethnographic methods in order to examine how black public figures use African American English (AAE) to express complex identities in interaction. This study explores the interaction between phonological, grammatical, suprasegmental and rhetorical …
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Grenades & gravy: an ethnographic study of food in the canadian forces
… cooks and military food at CFB Wainwright using ethnographic methods: observation, participant-observation, and interviews. Drawing from the data I collected while living on base, I explore military feeding and the experience of soldier cooks with respect to the formal, front stage and informal, …
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