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Ethnography on the cheap: Flickr

By Rain Noe - September 24, 2008

in Object Culture

Ten years ago, if you were designing a laptop bag and wanted to see what people carried in theirs, you could either a) hire a research firm or b) get a job in airport security. But now ID Ethnographers need look no further than Flickr. (For those too lazy to dig through the link, hit the jump for our compiled roundup of shots.) It's not as in-depth as a focus group, but you also don't have to provide cookies, juice, and those envelopes filled with crisp hundred-dollar bills.

photos from Flickr users: nick j adams, miroslav zeiner, nezgsy, veldaz, mlask, cory holt, aaron bassett, not another asian flickr dude

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refractal

16 years ago

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well you can get a glimpse at least into that set of people who think its desirable to photograph the contents of their bag and post them online. nothing against the bunch by any measure, but its certainly a deviation from the normal.

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Steve Portigal

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I'm not saying the information you can get from this isn't useful but for God's sake don't throw around terms like "ethnography" if you don't know what they mean.
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