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

[Nalini Kotamraju]

While working on my PhD in Sociology (and a little beyond), I spent a more
than significant chunk of time as a user researcher in the software design
group at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).

You also might want to take a look at anthrodesign on Yahoo! Groups (
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/anthrodesign/), which is the online home
of the majority of social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists, others)
who do social science work in corporate settings. Similarly, many of the
folks on that list attend EPIC (Ethnography Praxis in Industry Conference,
http://www.epic2009.com/).

If you'd like more information, feel free to contact me offline.

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Dr. Nalini P. Kotamraju
n.p.kotamraju at utwente.nl | +31 53 489 4970
University of Twente
http://www.gw.utwente.nl/tpc/mw/Kotamraju/
http://kotamraju.org

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Technical & Professional Communication Workgroup
 
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

> From: Nicholas John <nikjohn at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:05:02 +0300
> To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] social science research for the hi-tech sector
> 
> 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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> Dr. Nicholas John
> www.sociothink.com
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