Blog 5 Ethnographic Notes

Last week, our classmates had been asked by the instructor to go around the room and introduce ourselves to classmates who we had not met, akin to a cocktail party.  We were then asked to record and recall what we noticed during the those introductions and conversations.  This exercise was in relation to the literature we had read that day about ethnographic studies.

Here is what I had noticed during the event:

1. A noticeable lack of eye contact.
2. Majority of classmates owned smartphones
3. Most classmates had smartphones on hands
4. Most times, classmates were looking or giving input on their phones when listening, with eyes on the phone.
5. First questions usually involved something to do with the respective interviewee's educational major, careerism
6. Majority of classmates were female students