| In 1992, Dr. James Freeman joined the SVCP research team. The fostering
of research partnerships within the community has also played an important
part in the development of this research. Many Silicon Valley corporations
and institutions (such as Adobe,Apple,
Cisco
Systems, Hewlett
Packard, the San
Jose Mercury News, and SLAC)
have allowed access to their workers and assisted with the research in
allowing their people to be interviewed on company time. We also
acknowledge the creative intellectual partnerships we have found in The
Institute for the Future, The
American Anthropology Association, National
Science Foundation, and Sloan
Foundation.
The Silicon Valley Cultures Project is the guiding theoretical framework
which joins several ethnographic research projects studying diverse aspects
of life in Silicon Valley. Drs. Darrah, English-Lueck, and Freeman have
observed 14 Silicon Valley families for 2500 hours to understand the interactions
of work, family and technology. In addition, the Principal Investigators
have done over one thousand hours of in-depth interviews with a broad cross
section of Silicon Valley denizens during the Work, Identity, and Community
in Silicon Valley project. Hundreds of San Jose State student researchers
have been employed in earlier projects. In the belief that Applied Anthropology
is a field that is best learned by doing, students have been sent out into
the community to gather thousands of shorter interviews and critical incidents
from the individuals who call Silicon Valley home. This web site is intended
to make some of the findings accessible to the participating individuals,
companies and institutions, as well as to the public at large. |