ethnography — Updates

I've joined IDEO as an Expert-In-Residence in Shanghai, China

Hello friends, I've moved to Shanghai to join IDEO as an Expert-In-Residence for a few months! For both of IDEO and I, Design Thinking is a fundamental approach to solving business problems. In particular, the IDEO Shanghai studio and I think that understanding Chinese companies is a window to the world. And most importantly, we both care deeply about putting humans at the center of systems.

tricia wangJanuary 6, 2015IDEO, china, consumer insights, design thinking, ethnography, expert-in-residence, shanghai, tricia wang

Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media — My PhD dissertation

And after seven years of research, I present to you my PhD dissertation.

tricia wangFebruary 6, 2014china, chinese, dissertation, ethnography, phd, research, social media, strangers, tricia wang, youth

Transcript of my talk, "The Conceit of Oracles: How we ended of up in a world where quantitative data is more valued than qualitative data"

In September 2013, I delivered the opening keynote to the EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis In Industry Conference) 2013, a conference for people who care deeply about making organizations more human-centered. EPIC is a truly an interdisciplinary gathering, bringing together people who work in marketing, strategy, design, research, and academia.

tricia wangFebruary 5, 2014big data, epic 2013, ethnography, keynote, london, oracles, prediction, thick data, transcript, tricia wang

Lift Talk Notes - Dancing with Handcuffs: The Changing Geography of Trust in China

When I moved to China to do a year of continuous fieldwork, I didn't want to leave the country to give any talks. But when I got an invite from Lift Conference to speak, I didn't want to turn it down. I have been a fan of Lift Conferences for a long time and it was an honor to be invited. So I skipped out to Geneva for a week to speak at LIFT12.

tricia wangAugust 2, 2012censorship, china, conference, ethnography, internet, lift, research, shoe throwing, social media, trust, twitter, weibo

Presented paper that I co-wrote with Barrry Brown at Mobile HCI 2011

I got to spend a wonderful few days in Stockholm, Sweden for Mobile HCI 2011. I presented a paper that Barry Brown and I co-wrote about our research in mobile use in Mexico, Ethnography of the telephone: Changing uses of communication technology in village life.

tricia wangSeptember 30, 2011ethnography, human computer interaction, mexico, mobile, mobile HCI, oaxaca, users

My new blog about my research in China: Bytes of China!

I’ve just moved to China to fieldwork on how non-elite users, youth, and migrants are using cellphones and the internet. I’ve decided to keep a separate blog of all my ethnographic observations so that it doesn’t get mixed in with my general observations about culture and technology on Cultural Bytes.

tricia wangMay 24, 2011blog, china, ethnography, migrants, social networking sites, sociology, technology, tricia wang, youth

Moving to China to do research! Will be blogging my year on BytesofChina.com!

Good day world! it’s finally happening! I’m moving to China to do my research! wooohoo!

So I’m moving to China to do my research, and then coming back to write something that I hope to buddha doesn’t kill my soul to write creative non-fiction. (here’s some more details about my research). I have a post on my personal blog about all the things and people that I will miss so dearly.

tricia wangMarch 20, 2011bytes of china, china, ethnographic, ethnography, fieldwork, fulbright, migrants, technology

Spoke at “Creating Community Environments” at ITP, NYU

I was a guest speaker at the wonderful Kristen Taylor’s seminar, Creating Community Environments, at New York University’s ITP program.