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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Human-Computer Interaction Series |
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Human-computer interaction series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Intercultural Misunderstandings: An Indian-Dutch Research Project in the Early 1970s -- Intercultural Misunderstandings: An Indian-Dutch Research Project in the Early 1970s -- Reflexivity, Positionality, Decolonisation -- Research Assistants, Translators, Co-authors -- The Indian-Dutch Research Project -- Primordial Attachments -- Diffuse and Multi-stranded -- Retreat Versus Status -- Egalitarian Versus Hierarchical -- A Car for Common Use -- Misunderstandings -- The Mount Wilson Trip -- Discussion and Conclusion |
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Final Words -- References -- 4 Becoming an Activist, Becoming a Researcher -- Introduction -- My Position -- References -- 5 Another Rant About Technology -- Another Rant About Technology -- Alternatives to the Inflexible Algorithms in Public Services -- Who Decides that Street-Level Algorithms Are 'Ready' for Public Service Usage -- Why 'Ranting' and Problematising ...? -- Thinking Problematically from the Inside-Out -- Which Moments Are Made to Count -- A Question of Human Discretion or Compliance -- A Question of Human-Ready AI or AI-Ready Humans |
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Closing Remarks: The Emotional Toll on Researchers -- References -- 6 Minutes to Deportation: Confronting Danger and Threat in the Levant -- What Is the Levant? -- A Series of Conflicts, Millions of Refugees -- How Does that Affect Us as Ethnographers? -- "Ghaad" is It "Bokra"? -- No "Kufiyya" of Palestine Among Palestinians! -- Mr. Anonymous: Things I Learned -- Officially Promoted! -- Hospitality, Dignity, and Longing to Home -- "Ibn El-A' am" (Hey Cousin): Diplomacy and Family Ties -- "Sukkan Amman" a Resident of Amman: Dialect and Veneration -- Joining Research Teams: More Things I Learned |
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"Ustath Salah" Suddenly in the Spotlight: Illiteracy, Poverty, Loss of Face, and Social Positionality -- "The Walls Have Ears" -- "Only if You Accept Our Invitation for Dinner": Friendship, Generosity, Sharing Food, Pride, Concealment and Openness, Time Management -- "Fruitful Beirut, and Educative Tripoli": Networking, Safety, Accommodating Change, Grievance, and Political Positionality -- "If You Ever Met My Son, Just Say Hi to Him from Me" -- A Revoked Visa: "Go Back from Where You Came" -- Key Takeaways and Lessons Learned -- Study Your Literature, Make Room for the Field's Input |
| Summary |
This edited collection brings together a range of experiences from the field, largely in the context of CSCW and HCI. It focuses specifically on the experiences of people who have worked in difficult, tense, delicate and sometimes conflictual and dangerous settings. The tensions faced by researchers and, more importantly, how they manage to deal with them are often under-remarked. Unlike the bulk of published ethnographic work, the chapters in this book deal more explicitly with the various practical problems that researchers with varying degrees of experience face. Our aim in this book is to give a voice to researchers who have sometimes contended with unexpected issues and who sometimes have had to face them on their own. We explore incidents which may entail emotional conflict, embarrassment and shame, feelings of isolation, arguments with other members of a team, political pressures, and ideological confusions, to name but a few. Senior figures in research laboratories and elsewhere may provide intellectual direction and support but may not always recognise the personal and problematic nature of qualitative enquiry undertaken by relatively inexperienced researchers. The chapters examine feelings of isolation, the difficulty of taking sides, the negotiation of personal, ethical, and political pressures in the field, and dealing with conflicting visions of what the research should be about. The book is a resource for those embarking on the challenges of working in unfamiliar or difficult settings and moreover should act as a reminder to academics who might have forgotten the practical issues that researchers can face and how they deal with them |
| Bibliography |
References -- 3 Messy Tales from Fieldwork for Design -- Introduction -- Why Study Mess in Fieldwork? -- How to Capture Mess in Fieldwork? -- Reflexive Methodology and Confessionals -- Fieldwork Cases -- Before Entering the Field Site -- Bounding Practices and Producing the Field Site -- Negotiating Access to the Field -- On the Way to the Field -- While in the Field Site -- Feeling the Field Site -- Listening to the Field Site -- "Go Out to the Field and Get Your Hands Dirty" -- Sorting Out Messy Conflicts and Complexities -- Turning Empirical Uncertainties into Knowledge Providers |
| Notes |
Study the Language, Dialects, Local Customs, and Religions |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 23, 2023) |
| Subject |
Research -- Social aspects
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Teams in the workplace -- Data processing -- Research
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Human-computer interaction -- Research
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Research -- Psychological aspects
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Research -- Psychological aspects
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Research -- Social aspects
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Teams in the workplace -- Data processing -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krüger, Max
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De Castro Leal, Debora
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Randall, David
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Tolmie, Peter
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| ISBN |
9783031316425 |
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3031316428 |
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