Welcome to the Ghetto
“Welcome to the ghetto.”
A half-day spent in one of Ibadan’s tight shanty town communities, sniffing out sufficiently conducive contexts and people to conduct interviews. The …
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11 Sep 2011
A guest post, and a method here.
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We’re professional, we travel for a living, decoding culture for paying clients. But the very nature of our outsider status, our constant travel means that …
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Heading off to South African and Nigeria shortly for a field study looking into . Ping if you’re in the neighbourhood – putting together a …
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A simple and very effective technique for simultaneously putting the participant at ease and putting moral boundaries around the data that the team captures is …
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Friends visiting Shanghai, looking at the city through similar lenses.
The act of recording as a signifier of ‘interesting’.
The act of recording the recording as …
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The 3 Audiences
26 Oct 2010
There are 3 audiences to every presentation: the people in the room; the people tuning in online in real or close to real time; and …
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Or not.
Short radio interview here with the Economist.
Summary: the tools to help us negotiate today’s (heavily loaded notion of) impartiality is going to be …
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The moment after the interview – when yours truly, the fixer, the connector and the participant – a hawala agent in the local money bazaar …
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The slides from my The Economist: Ideas Economy talk, and the text below.
The title of my talk “no photos”.
Today I’d like to share something that …
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