[Air-L] social science research for the hi-tech sector

[Peter Timusk]

You could look for gender studies in high tech and also the late Rob  
Klings work. Many of the Internet studies I read include these studies  
such as an anthropologist doing field work at a high tech firm.

The sociologist at a high tech firm would most likely be in marketing  
but Marc Smith is a sociologist at Microsoft and is on this list. I  
believe but he does not study the sociology of that firm as far as I  
know. He more applies Microsoft tools/software to sociology.

Peter
On 17-Sep-09, at 6:05 AM, Nicholas John wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knows anything about social scientific
> research for the hi-tech sector? (That's "for", not "on".)
> Has anyone given thought to the question of how to make a convincing
> case to hi-tech companies for investing in sociological studies of
> their fields of operation?
> Or does anyone know how common the post of "in-house sociologist" is
> among hi-tech firms?

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