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

[Ben Anderson]

It's quite common. Xerox probably started it via PARC & you can find  
social scientists/sociologists of various flavours in the research  
labs AND the 'strategic marketing' functions of many telcos/tech  
sector corporates. Intel for example. epic is a good place to start  
from the ethnographic perspective... http://www.epic2009.com/

Ben

On 17 Sep 2009, at 11:05, 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?
>
> Thanks
> Nicholas
>
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