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Ethnography in Contemporary times

Ethnography in Contemporary times

Our first design project (DP-I) was all about knowing ourselves, our social groups and our community better. One of the most prominent ways to do that is by the means of an Ethnographic study of the concerned group. At its heart, ethnography is the study of cultures. But what does it mean to KNOW a social group? And how do we as designers or rather ethnographers find it out? How does one's involvement in a social group affect its dynamics? How does the researcher celebrates or condemns social practices of the group in his/her writings based on his/her limited understanding of the world? What is the basis of these judgements?

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Sports Complex: The Science Behind Fanatic Behaviour

Recently watched the India-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh tri-series matches and noticed how fans including many of my close friends react to teams' victory and loss. This got me curious about the reasons why fans follow sports so passionately, to extents where there are chances of violence and hooliganism. The following post is a download of an article written by Shirley Wang in 2006 that compiles the research that attempt to answer this question. I have highlighted the sentences that I found important. 

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