Silence' as an analytical category for PD

  • Authors:
  • Sisse Finken;Dagny Stuedahl

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Reporting from two field studies relating to design of IT, the authors show the importance of bringing in silence as an analytical category when conducting ethnography. With such take we aim at shedding light on the importance of understanding how diverse encounters - explicitly and implicitly articulated - make a difference when interpreting ethnographic material gathered around design processes.