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Lurking | Learning
This has emerged as the main question folks have about the idea behind pulp: “Why would I put anything I write up where all those lurkers can see it too?”
I don’t have a pat answer. I think that thinking about thinking in an open-source sort of way does entail some risk of a form of idea piracy. That’s not without basis, given the fact that a great deal of work in the design/research intersection has been ‘citation-free,’ largely, I think, due the perception among all kinds of practitioners that they need to be able to claim uniqueness in order to offer value, and that uniqueness
The ‘Style’ paper from EPIC ‘09
“Let’s bring it up to b flat” — What Style Offers Applied Ethnographic Work
Cantare amantis est “Only he who loves can sing” St. Augustine
WORKING WITH STYLE
How hard is it to convey the essence of the work we do? I’m talking here about particular instances of work, work in projects, in cases, in fieldwork and findings, more than the more generic process, method, and overview blurbs and slideshows that get used to ‘sell’ or introduce the work. It’s hard. We rely, often, on close collaborations and shared experiences to bridge across organizational boundaries and disciplinary backgrounds. We don’t expect folks to
Introducing pulp: notes from rer
pulp: a writer’s salon at the intersection of design, social science, and business.
In graduate school I was part of a ‘workshop’ that had been started by one of my advisors (Wendy Griswold, now at Northwestern University) on the ‘Sociology of Culture.’ There wasn’t a curriculum. Wendy didn’t lecture. There were no grades. It went across academic quarters, year over year (I was part of it for four of them), with an evolving composition of graduate students and faculty members from across the university.
We presented work in progress. We shared drafts of papers and chapters. We critiqued what we read and we argued (productively) about what we were working
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations (Studies in
Melissa Cefkin, Editor
The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Rick E. Robinson
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