The 'burbs
The suburbs. Victims of abuse and scorn and the net curtain twitching middle classes. A new exhibition at the London Transport Museum explores the suburbs and Joe Moran, that ethnographer of the […]
I used PowerPoint
Back from EPIC2008 and the dust is settling. That post-conference euphoria, a sense of existential communitas created by being in seclusion amongst like minded individuals soon dissipates on return to […]
The Self Sustaining Serendipity Engine?
I don’t quite get Dopplr. Yet. Maybe I’m missing something, maybe I’m looking too hard. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place. Or perhaps what I’m looking for (I don’t […]
Ten Things: Mobility in Later Life
For me, much of this year has been spent understanding the impact of mobility on the lives of older people. My team and I wrote a report on our ethnography […]
Ethnography, Transportation and Older People
With ethnography so in vogue nowadays there is barely a domain, particularly one where commercial opportunity might present itself, that does not have an ‘ethnographic’ study conducted on it. When […]