http://cyborganthropology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ethnography_of_Families_and_Technology&feed=atom&action=historyEthnography of Families and Technology - Revision history2024-03-28T11:15:54ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.23.13http://cyborganthropology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ethnography_of_Families_and_Technology&diff=735&oldid=prevCaseorganic: Created page with 'From 2002 to 2005, before reality TV ruled the earth, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, laboriously recruited 32 local families, videotaping nearly every …'2010-05-31T06:07:35Z<p>Created page with 'From 2002 to 2005, before reality TV ruled the earth, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, laboriously recruited 32 local families, videotaping nearly every …'</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>From 2002 to 2005, before reality TV ruled the earth, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, laboriously recruited 32 local families, videotaping nearly every waking, at-home moment during a week — including the Jacket Standoff.<br />
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But the U.C.L.A. project was an effort to capture a relatively new sociological species: the dual-earner, multiple-child, middle-class American household. The investigators have just finished working through the 1,540 hours of videotape, coding and categorizing every hug, every tantrum, every soul-draining search for a missing soccer cleat.<br />
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“This is the richest, most detailed, most complete database of middle-class family living in the world,” said Thomas S. Weisner, a professor of anthropology at U.C.L.A. who was not involved in the research. “What it does is hold up a mirror to people. They laugh. They cringe. It shows us life as it is actually lived.”<br />
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After more than $9 million and untold thousands of hours of video watching, they have found that, well, life in these trenches is exactly what it looks like: a fire shower of stress, multitasking and mutual nitpicking. And the researchers found plenty to nitpick themselves.<br />
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'''Source:''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/science/23family.html Families’ Every Fuss, Archived and Analyzed]</div>Caseorganic