Brigitte Jordan
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Jordan, Brigitte with Monique Lambert

in press Working in Corporate Jungles: Reflections on Ethnographic Praxis in Industry. Chapter 4 in: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research In and Of Corporations. Melissa Cefkin, ed. New York: Berghahn Books (2009).

 

Jordan, Brigitte

in press Living a Distributed Life: Multi-Locality and Working at a Distance. Chapter 3 in: Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences. Tracy Meerwarth, Julia Gluesing and Brigitte Jordan eds. NAPA Bulletin. Blackwell/Wiley Publishing (2009).

 

Jordan, Brigitte

in press Blurring Boundaries: The “Real” and the “Virtual” in Hybrid Spaces. Introduction to Special Section on Knowledge Flow in Online and Offline Spaces. Human Organization (2009).

 

Jordan, Brigitte and Yutaka Yamauchi

2008     Beyond the University: Teaching Ethnographic Methods in the Corporation. Anthropology News 49(6).

 

Jordan, Brigitte

2007     Notes on Methods for the Study of Work Practices. Unpublished manuscript. Original 1991.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

2007     Technology in Sacred Spaces. Anthropology News 48:4:29 (April).

 

Jordan, Brigitte and Brinda Dalal

2006     Persuasive Encounters: Ethnography in the Corporation. Field Methods 18:4:359-381.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

2005 [2000]     Lifescapes of the Future: Living and Working in the Third Millennium. Unpublished manuscript.

 

Jordan, Brigitte and Peter Putz

2004     Assessment as Practice: Notes on Measures, Tests and Targets. Human Organization 63:3:346-358 (pdf format here)

 

Putz, Peter and Brigitte Jordan

2004     'Cover your ass' - zum Umgang mit formalen und informalen Bewertungen in Organisationen. In B. Hackl, and G. H. Neuweg (eds.), Zur Professionalisierung pädagogischen Handelns. Beiträge aus der Sektion Lehrerbildung und Lehrerbildungsforschung in der ÖFEB: 151-176. Münster: Lit Verlag.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

2003     Corporate Anthropology in Costa Rica. A Brief Research Report. Anthropology News, December.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

2002     Notes on Trust and Why It Matters in Corporations. Unpublished ms 020911.

 

Jordan, Brigitte and Friends

2001     Communication in Hierarchical Organizations. Unpublished manuscript.

 

Ruhleder, Karen and Brigitte Jordan

2001      Co-Constructing Non-Mutual Realities: Delay-Generated Trouble in Distributed Interaction. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work 10:1:113-138.

 

Ruhleder, Karen and Brigitte Jordan

2001      Managing Complex, Distributed Environments: Remote Meeting Technologies at the "Chaotic Fringe". First Monday (Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet) 6:5 (May 7).

 

Jordan, Brigitte

2000     From Training to Learning in the New Economy. Unpublished manuscript.

 

Jordan, Brigitte, Ron Goldman and Anja Eichler

1998      A Technology for Supporting Knowledge Work: The RepTool. Pp. 71-89 in: Information Technology for Knowledge Management, Uwe Borghoff and Remo Pareschi, eds. Berlin: Springer Verlag. For a description of functionalities, a user’s guide and a free download of the RepTool, go to http://www.practicalgatherings.com/workplace_anthro/rep_tools/RepTools.html.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

1997      Transforming Ethnography -- Reinventing Research. CAM (Cultural Anthropology Methods Journal) 9:3: 12-17 (Oct).

 

Ruhleder, Karen and Brigitte Jordan

1997      Capturing Complex, Distributed Activities: Video-Based Interaction Analysis as a Component of Workplace Ethnography." Pp. 246-275 in Lee, Allen S., Jonathan Liebenau and Janice I. DeGross, Informa­tion Systems and Qualitative Research. London, UK: Chapman and Hall.

 

Ruhleder, Karen, Brigitte Jordan and Michael Elmes

1996      Wiring “The New Organization”: Integrating Collaborative Technologies and Team-Based Work. Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

1996      Ethnographic Workplace Studies and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Pp. 17-42 in: The Design of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware Systems. Dan Shapiro, Michael Tauber and Roland Traunmüller, eds. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: North Holland/Elsevier Science.

 

Tanur, Judith and Brigitte Jordan

1996      Measuring Customer Satisfaction: More on Corporate Surveys as Practice. Paper prepared for the Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Section, May 17, 1996. Published in the 1996 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, vol.2, pp. 917-922. Washington, D.C.

 

Tanur, Judith and Brigitte Jordan

1996      Measuring Employee Satisfaction: Corporate Surveys as Practice. Pp. 426-431 in: Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available as IRL Tech Report #11.0028 (November). Palo Alto, Institute for Research on Learning.

 

Jordan, Brigitte and Austin Henderson

1995      Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice. The Journal of the Learning Sciences 4(1): 39-103. Jordan, Brigitte and Austin Henderson. 1995. "Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice." The Journal of the Learning Sciences 4(1): 39-103. [Note: this paper is 5 MB - please be patient.]

 

Jordan, Brigitte

1992      Technology and Social Interaction: Notes on the Achievement of Authoritative Knowledge in Complex Settings. IRL Technical Report No. IRL92-0027. Palo Alto, CA: Institute for Research on Learning. PLEASE NOTE: this paper is in pdf format and is 2.7MB in size; please be patient.

 

Suchman, Lucy and Brigitte Jordan

1990      Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Research. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) 85:409:232-241. [Review paper with comments by Stephen E. Fienberg, Robert A. Hahn, Mary Grace Kovar and Patricia Royston, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Roger Tourangeau and a rejoinder by the authors on pp. 252-253.]

 

Jordan, Brigitte

1990      Technology and the Social Distribution of Knowledge: Issues for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries. Pp. 98-120 in: Anthropology and Primary Health Care, Jeanine Coreil and Dennis Mull, eds. Boulder: Westview Press.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

1989      Cosmopolitical Obstetrics: Some Insights from the Training of Traditional Midwives. Social Science and Medicine 28:9:925-944. [Featured article with comments by C. H. Browner, Robert A. Hahn, R. and P. M. Jeffery, Jean Lave, Carol P. MacCormack, and Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes.]

 

Jordan, Brigitte and Susan Irwin

1989      The Ultimate Failure: Court-Ordered Cesarean Section. Pp. 13-24 in: New Approaches to Human Reproduction, Linda Whiteford and Marilyn Poland, eds. Boulder: Westview Press.

 

Lozoff, Betsy, Brigitte Jordan and Stephen Malone

1988      Childbirth in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Invited article in: Marriage and Family Review 12:3/4:35-60, special issue on Transitions to Parenthood, Rob Palkovitz and Marvin Sussman, eds.

 

Jordan, Brigitte

1987      High Technology: The Case of Obstetrics. World Health Forum 8:3:312-319. [Part of a featured roundtable discussion together with a paper by E. O. Attinger and commentary by 12 international experts including Stanley Reiser and Ivan Illich.] (pdf format here)

 

Irwin, Susan and Brigitte Jordan

1987      Knowledge, Practice and Power: Court-Ordered Cesarean Sections. In: The Anthropology of American Obstetrics, Robert Hahn, editor, special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1:3:319-334.