Shifting surrogacies: Comparative ethnographies

Ethnographies of Code workshop

This position paper seeks to outline concepts of values in design and how they may be usefully employed in everyday contexts of programming. The paper will first introduce significant contributions and works by Nissenbaum on values in design and Taylor on reverse engineering. Drawing on the peekabooty project, this paper will outline how particular values in design may be introduced and embodie...

“ Ethnographies of heritage and power ”

Materialising Oceania: New ethnographies of things in Melanesia and Polynesia

Oceania occupies an intriguing place within anthropology's genealogy. In the introduction to this collection of essays, we examine the role of the ethnography of Oceania in the development of our anthropological perspectives on materialisation, the dynamic process by which persons and things are inter-related. Building upon the recent resurgence of theoretical interests in things we use the ter...

Shifting Perspectives on Comparative Research: a view from the USA

The evolution of scholarship in comparative education in the USA has reached a point where several observations are possible. While there is variation in methodology and theory, three principal perspectives tend to be represented in most contemporary articles published in the top journals in the Ž eld. These might be referred to as being area studies based, social science disciplinary based, or...

Comparative Study of Histogram Shifting Algorithms for Digital Watermarking

Data hiding is a method of hiding or embedding secret data, called message, into a digital media, called cover; in such a way that message is unnoticeable to human eye. An algorithm that can retrieve the message from the cover without any loss to original image is called reversible. Histogram shifting has proven its importance in the field of digital watermarking after the work of Ni et al. In ...