Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette / Belval
Salle de conférence (1st floor)
seminars@liser.lu
Abstract
Topic: digital and mobile ethnographies and use of ethnographic methods in participatory and collaborative research
Biography
Eric Laurier is Professor of Geography & Interaction, at the Institute of Geography & the Lived Environment. He is PGR Director at the School of GeoSciences, at the university of Edinburgh. He is currently working on assistive technologies, trouble in public places, small talk practices in service work, wayfinding and family relationships in walking and cross-cultural driving practices. His long term approach to research emerges from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. He is concerned, in fundamental ways, with the what of social things and how events happen, where those things might be as familar as crossing at traffic lights, or, as technical as professional film editing practice. To try and recover the overlooked details of how people organise the things that they do, he uses video recordings.
