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This event will be moderated by Dr. Alex Jiahong Lu, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies at Rutgers University and Dr. Kaitlin Montague.
This panel explores the intersection of ethnographic research and information science as panelists share insights and stories from their fieldwork across different domains of information science. The moderated discussion will cover the application of ethnographic methods in information science research, highlighting the unique perspectives and sensibilities that information science brings to ethnographic inquiries. The event will feature a moderated discussion followed by an open Q&A, providing the audience with an opportunity to engage directly with the ethnographer panelists.
Panelists:
Dr. Jenna Hartel
Jenna Hartel is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. In the early 2000s, she was trained in ethnography at UCLA's Department of Sociology, and has since been translating its tenets to Information Science. Over the decades, she has developed a particular interest in visual and arts-informed ethnographic methods. At the Faculty of Information, Jenna created the course, Information Ethnography, and has helped more than 300 students conduct ethnographic pilot studies of their own design. She has also created the instructional videos series, Visual Research Methods and Writing-Up Research as Thematic Narrative, which are freely available at her YouTube channel, INFIDEOS.
Dr. Elizabeth Kaziunas
Elizabeth Kaziunas is an Assistant Professor of Informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering where she teaches in the HCI/d program. Her research contributes to the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and health informatics by examining the social and organizational contexts of health information systems, lived experiences of health datafication, and social impacts of AI. She received her Ph.D. from University of Michigan, M.S. from Syracuse University, M.A. from Yale University and B.A. from Macalester College.
Dr. Maggie Jack
Maggie Jack researches technology and work in a global context. Maggie primarily uses qualitative methods including ethnography, interviews, design research, participant observation, and archival review. Her scholarly work is in conversation with the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and design. She also contributes to popular conversations about the changing nature of work and the ethical dimensions of emerging technologies. Maggie’s first book Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology was published in the Labor and Technology series at the MIT Press in May 2023. Maggie holds a PhD in Information Science from Cornell University, an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in History and Science from Harvard College.