Mark Crabtree: 3 books

It was the boxer, Mike Tyson who coined the phrase: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Whilst that may be true of the pugilists amongst us, what about the average bloke on the street? What's his game-plan? Football's a funny old sport, isn't it? The game may...

This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological...

Ethnography is now a fundamental feature of design practice, taught in universities worldwide and practiced widely in commerce. Despite its rise to prominence a great many competing perspectives exist and there are few practical texts to support the development of competence. Doing Design Ethnographyelaborates...