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Silicon utopias: the making of a tech startuo ecosystem in Manchester (UK) [PDF]

, 2017
‘Silicon utopias’, the hope for a green, affluent and happy future through the creation of new tech-businesses, are today informing many urban development processes globally.
Pfeilstetter, Richard
core  

Making Data Work: Using Conversation and Interaction Analysis to Study Data Science Education

Teaching Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a methodological approach that combines conversation analysis (CA) and interaction analysis (IA) to examine how students reason with data in collaborative settings, using food justice as an illustrative case. While traditional analytical approaches in data science education often rely on individual cognitive measures or ...
Marc T. Sager
wiley   +1 more source

Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings, David Weir, Sa'ad Ali, Sven Horak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choose, Compose, Contemplate: Semantic Theorizing in Management Research

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract By analysing life stories through a reflexive semantic theorizing process, this article introduces an alternative to many conventional coding‐based qualitative analysis techniques. Rather than relying on coding techniques that often strip narrative data of its context and nuance, following the proposed approach helps preserve the richness and ...
Lakshmi Balachandran Nair, Fabien Moreau
wiley   +1 more source

What Are Select Committees For?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Ethnography

, 2014
L. S. Krecker, Alice Wexler, Mary Stokrocki   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The Ethnography of a Digital Object

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2020
Sylvain Besençon, David Bozzini
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an anthropology of acquisition: ‘How did you get that?’ Vers une anthropologie de l'acquisition : « Où as‐tu trouvé ça ? »

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source