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Dori
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Dear Readers:
We invite you to participate in a survey that will help ethnographers
practicing in industry learn more about themselves and their discipline.
This survey has been developed by two veteran ethnographers – Inga
Treitler and Gerald Lombardi – who over the past 15 years have watched the
practice burgeon, but note that little common knowledge has been gathered
about the conditions of our work.
To what extent do the ethnographers plying their trade in industry
constitute a community? In what regions of the world are we focused? How
much do we earn? What positions of authority do we hold? In what formal
and informal ways have we procured our training? How long have we been
"practicing?"
No matter where in our career trajectories we are, or in what sort of
organizations we are employed, we will be empowered by knowing the answers
to these questions, by tracking the goals and motivations that influence
us, and by learning how we affect the industries in which we work.
Will you take twenty minutes to complete the survey? Responses are
anonymous and will not trigger any follow-on messages, invitations or
spam. Initial findings will be the basis of a presentation engaging
practitioners at the 5th Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference in
Chicago at the end of August. Thereafter, the aggregated data will
continue to be available via the EPIC conference website, although the
survey itself is not sponsored by or designed on behalf of EPIC.
To take the survey just click on the following weblink or paste it into
your browser:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Bi9Dcw54CIZLyIKLBPHyIQ_3d_3d
Please complete the survey by July 26. We are seeking broadest and most
global representation possible. Please do not hesitate to forward this
email announcement with weblink to suitable venues.
Thank you very much.
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Inga Treitler
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linkedin.com/pub/dir/Inga/Treitler
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Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall
Associate Professor, Design Anthropology
Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching
Swinburne Design
Swinburne University of Technology
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