Learning Outcomes
Understand
- Culture is a multidimensional construct.
- Ethnography is a tool for investigating culture
Apply
- Literature Search Techniques
- Unstructured Interview Techniques
Preview: Group Assignments
Next week, you will be split into groups for the main group assignment. I will decide who works with whom, using three criteria:
- Each group should have at least one MA student (this can be the MFA mentor)
- Each group should have at least one non-Eastern member
- Each group should be mixed gender
This is designed to help you develop your teamwork abilities.
Activities
- How can you investigate the culture of a foreign country? What are key indicators you need to know about? How can you research them without going through Wikipedia?
- What activities might you want to observe if you want to know more about the culture of a country?
- Go find someone who has a different culture, and start a conversation about their culture with them. We will discuss a starter question in class.
Discussion
- To what extent do culture, gender, age, and education interact?
- How static is culture?
- Do app makers add lots of functions to keep up with the competition, because users expect it, or because they want to tie you to their own infrastructure?