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Ethnography and trendspotting
By using ethnography one can identify key patterns in the users´ emotinal, functional and social needs. That is what real “trendspotting” is – detailed analysis of behaviour in order to predict change. One have to know that human behavior is likely to lead to some development, such as the human need for comfort is often…
Hattrick and Why do ethnography
For widening the understanding of their own online service, especially how it is perceived by their users, the owners of the text-based football manager game Hattrick and their associates at Tribaling recently called for ethnographic research as one step in the process of making a marketing strategy plan. The research found answers to questions that…
Ecology 2010
We can well state that there is an increasing interest for organic food and the central theme for it circles around environment and health. No one can escape the fact that organic alternatives are on the market. Our informants, disregarding ethnicity, socioeconomic background and education, have all a relative good knowledge of what organic food…
Generation Noll koll 2
The term Generation ”Noll koll” is spreading. Our expression refer to the notion that we have a younger generation that doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s used as an allusion to how younger people define media, namely ”to know what’s going on”, or in Swedish ”att ha koll”. This phenomenon is getting increasingly attention and…
iPod Generation
Radiodays Europe, The annual pan-European radio conference for leaders from public service and commercial radio as well as related industries, is taking place in Copenhagen 17-18th March. The conference is an arena to discuss radio now and in the future. But, what role does radio play in the lives of younger generations? Inculture will reveal…
Fashion make people react
Apparently fashion and the way people dress and choose their clothes is still a much disputed topic. Young adults are often the aim for this discussion. And more often it is older people who are the ones who points fingers.
Ethnography
Ethnography reveals what people really do. It allows you to see patterns of behavior in a real world context. The method answers how and why by everyday life participant observation study. Saying and acting are separate phenomenon. Ethnography gain insights into how people define and create meaning. Designers, communicators and product developers need to understand…
Old and new media
There are some fundamental differences between “old” and “new” media. Old media is objective and still synonymous with power from an “elite” which is not obvious to trust and also perceived as tedious. New media is free (Internet) and private (cellphone). You are the producer and you decide whether you want to be disturbed or…
Food – A new pop culture
SVT´s new show Landet brunsås was aired 3 weeks ago and as an anthropologist I can´t overlook the anthropological aspect of the show. Food discussions are very common in the anthropological arena and as the late cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas stated in her book Purity and Danger (1966) schemes of classification regarding food exists everywhere.
Think short, or?
Inculture is asked to comment on Dan Herman’s lecture on thursday at Berghs School of Communication. Dr Herman is the man behind the think short paradigm and method: an integrative and comprehensive method for developing, branding and marketing innovations designated to arouse immediate consumer enthusiasm and achieve rapid market penetration and a vast success. It…
Web service award day and longing
Inculture will talk about youth and media consumption at the web service award day. The topic of the day is The Future and the Web and the moderator Richard Gatarski has asked us speakers ”what we long for on the web”. I’ve thought a lot about that and I’ve come to the conclusion that I…
BoBo buys fairtrade coffee and travels to Bali
I make my own muesli – I enjoy picking out the most delicious looking almonds, the most healthy seeds, the most colourful fruits and mix it with organic and fairtrade oatmeal. In that way I start my morning just the way I like it And, yes, it is very boboitian!
