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Built for technographers
I first used a technographic approach to inquiry in 2005. It was a lonely approach back then. Qualitative research in technology was only starting to be understood as a crucial method in audience/end user research. Since then there has been a steady increase in the use of technography, and many innovations. I am starting to notice some repetition in reviews of the method, and also some gaps in references of works that don't get recognized as often as they should be.
My goal in this site is to provide a centralized resource for technographers to consult and build a community around.
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I hope our technography community will grow large enough to some day hold a technography conference, and to publish a technography scholarly journal. Please join the community and altogether we'll see what can happen.
Defining Technography
Technology in social context
The description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
Jansen and Vellema define technography as an interdisciplinary methodology for studying the use of skills, tools, knowledge, and techniques in everyday life, especially within social-technical configurations.
The Technographies series frames technography as a description of technologies and their application with primary regard to social context, including the role writing plays in inscribing technologies within social and cultural life.
The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest evidence for the noun technography is from 1840 in the Journal of the Statistical Society of London.
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