Val Curtis: Disgust and Hygiene ↗
The Dissenter / 11.22.2018
Is the concept of “hygiene” universal? Val Curtis, Director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine shares insights with The Dissenter.
Curation Health Urban Culture World Affairs
Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic is a Portal’ ↗
The Financial Times / 04.03.2020
Arundhati Roy’s insights on how the pandemic is forcing ‘humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew.’
Stories to Build a World By
Measurement of the success of international interventions in vulnerable places using standardized statistics across communities has proven disastrous to many international development and humanitarian aid efforts. Dr. Millar makes a case for using insights from the stories of the communities affected to determine the success, failure, or even whether the proposed measures would help would increase effectiveness of the measures and improve results.
The Research Behind Binge Watching as a Cultural Movement ↗
Insights Association / 10.11.2018
We are hearing all about the new streaming wars: but what about the massive, research-driven cultural change that brought it about? The Insights Association shared a piece discussing Netflix research methods resulting in a radical change in the way we watch “shows.”
Research Mixology
Airbnb’s Director of Research shares how he mixes research methods to enable unique and exciting real-world experiences for the platform’s users.
Debating Leviathan
Peeps’ editorial team debates Leviathan, by Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Editors’ Note
Introducing Peeps Issue 01 – The Modern Protagonist.
The Human Element at Microsoft
Speaking with Microsoft’s Sam Ladner about what it means to be a sociologist at the world’s biggest software company.
Spy vs Ethnographer
What happened to me when on stage, at a gathering of my ethnographic peers, where I was accused of being a spy.
Winning and Losing in Modern China
Investigating the elusive Chinese dream through the Diaosi, self-identified losers on the Chinese internet.
Beyond the Disease
Unveiling how the struggle for identity can become a matter of life or death for young men living with hemophilia.
Bricolage in a Can
The story of one research team’s journey into the brand culture of alcoholic energy drinks.
The Promise of Big Data
There is something almost ethnographic about the way that big data recedes into the background and quietly collects data about our lived experience.
Sound Advice
Our brains appear to come equipped with an inclination to use the individual phonemes contained in names to make sense of unfamiliar words.
On Being Part of the Conversation on Culture
A piece on the approach to telling stories of culture and context at Peeps.
Observations of an Observer
When shooting ethnographic photography I use my education and experience as a photojournalist. Here’s how.
Cosmopolitan Moments
Colin Shafer’s ambition to photograph someone born in every country of the world who now lives in Toronto.
A Taste of the Road
Bruno Moynie pursued that romantic fantasy of life on the road, in the American south, and shares his food with us.
Going Native: The Art of Ethnographic Filmmaking
To Bruno Moynié, ethnographic filmmaking is the art of immersion, the ability to accept and be accepted by the people you are filming.