The Silicon Valley Cultures Project Website
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January 2002
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The Silicon Valley
Cultures Project
is a fifteen year ethnographic study of the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of Silicon Valley. Beginning in 1991, Drs. Charles Darrah and J. A. English-Lueck, professors at San Jose State University, California, developed a collaborative research project that is investigating the Silicon Valley culture area. This region is a laboratory for research into high technology communities due to its robust and varied industrial base, the use of information technologies, organizational innovations, and its broad cultural diversity.
 
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.

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