Please join us for this following PDW at Academy next month!
Field Research Of The Future: Challenges, Opportunities, Pragmatics Friday, Aug 7 2015 8:30AM - 11:00AM, Vancouver Convention Centre, Room 204
Sponsors: OCIS, OMT
Management scholars point out daily how much work, organizations, management, collaboration and many other related practices are changing with the introduction, adoption and now ubiquitous reliance on information technologies. In response to these sociotechnical developments, qualitative researchers, in particular, find themselves grappling with a new set of concerns, some of which question the assumed tenets of field methodology. The goal of the PDW is to promote a conversation around how qualitative researchers are currently facing the challenge of doing fieldwork in our technologically saturated world -- not necessarily in terms of 'virtual ethnography' or fieldwork in online spaces but also how texts, trace data, sensors, etc. affect how we conduct research in physical spaces and "observe" human behavior in new ways. Through a combined program of research presentations, panel discussion and roundtable conversation, we will raise and attend to questions about how our work as organizational field scholars may look in the coming decades.
Organizer: Ingrid Erickson; Rutgers University
Organizer: Jennifer Gibbs; Rutgers University
Organizer: Melissa Mazmanian; U. of California, Irvine
Speaker: James Howison; The University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Natalia Levina; New York University
Speaker: Ann Majchrzak; U. of Southern California
Speaker: Carsten S. Oesterlund; Syracuse University
Speaker: Kathleen H Pine; Intel Labs
Speaker: Taryn Lyn Stanko; Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Speaker: Jeffrey Treem; The University of Texas at Austin
Apologies for any cross posting.
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Ingrid Erickson Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science School of Communication & Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901
email: ingrid.erickson@rutgers.edu office: DeWitt 303 (185 College Ave.) phone: +1.848.932.7195