Ethnographics
"Businesses, too, have found ethnographers helpful for understanding how people use products and services, as indicated in the increasing use of ethnographic methods to understand consumers and consumption, or for new product development (such as video ethnography). The recent Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC) conference is evidence of this [citation needed]. Ethnographers' systematic and holistic approach to real-life experience is valued by product developers, who use the method to understand unstated desires or cultural practices that surround products. Where focus groups fail to inform marketers about what people really do, ethnography links what people say to what they actually do.avoiding the pitfalls that come from relying only on self-reported, focus-group data."*
Enthnography books in the UMD Library
Ethnography and Marketing in Google
Ethnography and Marketing in Google Books
Ethnography and Marketing in Google Scholar
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Last Update: April 13, 2012
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