Perhaps those who have ethnographic experience in this region could help to provide some insight?
MacPhail's research is based in a rich array of ethnographic experience: research in Hong Kong and at the CDC during the H1N1 outbreak, work at the California Department of Public Health, and participation in a well-connected and informed influenza research network in Berkeley and San Francisco.
For example, qualitative UX researchers typically have a strong mastery of interview abilities, ethnographic experience and presentation ability, while visual designers are typically creative and strong communicators who are knowledgeable in typography and color theory.
This piece draws on ethnographic experience at various hacker conferences to rethink how face-to-face interactions work in concert with digital interactivity to constitute social worlds.
Although this does not form part of the analysis in this paper, we use this ethnographic experience to reinforce our confidence in the rigour and consistency of the analysis presented below.
It is not easy to write a book about gut-wrenching ethnographic experience.
Sometimes ethnographic experience brings us to face to face with issues of life and death--the real stuff of the human condition.
The most trenchant criticism has come not from anthropologists or sociologists who have long practiced ethnography but from legal scholars or survey researchers who for the most part don't have hands-on ethnographic experience.
At my last several talks, I seen people shed a tear to two when I talk about the depth of my ethnographic experience and the depth of the humanity of my Nigerian friends.
Drawing on discourse analysis of expert and public perspectives and auto-ethnographic experience, this article challenges the experienced extent of antagonistic art practice in juxtaposition to the formal discourse of creators and urban policymakers.
