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	North West Labour History Journal: "The Economics of Everyday Life" A Mass-Observation Project in Bolton by Liz Stanley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Firstly, 'the everyday' remains central to the investigation, with the project researchers looking at topics which most researchers (now as well as then) would have considered too trivial to be worthy of research - for example, people's clothes and their social function, people's stomachs and the social functions of food consumption.
		Secondly, there is the way in which the researchers' observation of public behaviour is central, and the direct questioning of people as to their private behaviour and opinions is analytically secondary to this.
		That is, in mainstream research (both then and now) people's reports of their behaviours were used as the cornerstone of research, whereas the economics of everyday life researchers used observation of people's behaviours as their cornerstone and tied people's reports about their behaviour to this.
	www.wcml.org.uk /nwlhg/massobs1.html (2587 words)

	Mass Observation Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the first part of the data for the mass observation experiment.
		The isovist was the number of people that the obsever could see from their observation point at the end of the observatino period.
		There have been comments that similar mass observation experiments should be performed at the next symposium.
	www.thepurehands.org /massObs (147 words)

	ICA: Past Exhibitions > Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation
		The ICA is presenting the only East Coast showing of "Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation," a survey of her work from 1992 to 2002.
		The title of the exhibition, "Mass Observation", is based on a pre-World War II British social documentary project whose goal was to mass data based on the observation of people's everyday lives.
		Wearing's mass observation signifies her interest in a collective of individuals in a large group.
	www.icaphila.org /exhibitions/past/wearing.php (729 words)

	JJAEZ : Vol. 47 (2003) , No. 2 53-60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To demonstrate the process of occurrence of mass attack by Platypus quercivorus on living trees and the process of tree death after mass attack, the beetles landing on tree trunks of Quercus crispula and Q.
		To reproduce the mass attack artificially, male beetles were introduced to two trees that had never suffered boring attacks until mid-August.
		As a result, many beetles landed on these trees and a large number of entry holes were bored.
	dx.doi.org /10.1303/jjaez.2003.53 (208 words)

	Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site. This is the mass observation page
		Mass Observations are snapshots of life, taken courtesy of various people of various ages from various places, cultures and times.
		Eventually we hope to have some 'celebrity' mass observations, but that's not really the point.
		What we wanted to do was just look at the ways in which people lived and looked at their lives and document those responses.
	tangents.co.uk /tangents/mass (139 words)

	Sea levels: Mass observation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At issue is the fact that direct observations (tide gauge records) put the twentieth-century rate of increase at between 1.5 and 2 mm per year, yet a combination of estimates of the volume increase due to ocean warming and mass increase due to ice melting falls short of that figure.
		New data from the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans confirm the accepted figure, but also point to where the 'missing millimetres' of sea level rise are coming from.
		Measurements of salinity and temperature close to the tide gauges suggest that mass, not volume, has been dominant in driving sea level rise.
	www.nature.com /nature/links/040325/040325-5.html (167 words)

	Coronal Mass Ejection Observation
		Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer Observation of the 1996 December 23
		By the time of the exposure shown in the top right-hand panel of Figure 1, the CME was at the peak of its emission, dominating the original streamer emission by more than 2 orders of magnitude.
		The upper and lower knots are clearly blueshifted with respect to the central one, and the velocity structure is indistinguishable from that seen in the Lyman lines.
	ecf.hq.eso.org /~ralbrech/novdec97apjl/975539.html (3078 words)

	Roger Clarke's 'Technologies of Mass Observation'
		The 'Mass Observation Movement' Forum aims to "explore surveillance technology, its impact on broader community, uses in cyber technology and how artists are interpreting these major changes in personal privacy and the monitoring of society".
		On 26 October 2000, it ran an event on Surveillance and its Role in Contemporary Life, comprising a screening of several short films, followed by a panel session.
		Artists, citizens and consumers had better come together and do something very quickly about the ravages that powerful institutions are perpetrating with the technologies of visual, electronic and data observation, because the delicate feather of freedom is being trampled underfoot.
	www.anu.edu.au /people/Roger.Clarke/DV/MassObsT.html (1630 words)

	PHF BELIEF \| Mass Observation
		The goal: to create "an anthropology of ourselves." The mechanism: recruit volunteers to report on their own lives, and to eavesdrop on the conversations and behavior of others.
		He has published articles on tourism and radical politics, and is the author of a forthcoming book on British conceptions of Napoleon Bonaparte.
		In 1999-2000, while a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum, he conducted research on Mass Observation.
	humanities.sas.upenn.edu /03-04/semmel.html (263 words)

	BBC - Video Nation - History - Mass Observation
		Their aim was to create an "anthropology of ourselves" by studying the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain.
		The panel of volunteer writers was composed of people from all over Britain who either kept diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires sent to them by Mass Observation.
		The archive is currently kept at the University of Sussex, and you can find out more at their Mass Observation website.
	www.bbc.co.uk /videonation/history (177 words)

	Grand Text Auto » Observation on Mass Observation
		A group blog Grand Text Auto is about computer mediated and computer generated works of many forms: interactive fiction, net.art, electronic poetry, interactive drama, hypertext fiction, computer games of all sorts, shared virtual environments, and more.
		Quick note from the Q∓A session of a talk on Mass Observation, a project in mass reportage/mass surveillance that began in 1937 in Britain and which gives its title to an exhibit opening today at the Philadelphia ICA.
		It was a sociological sort of project, involving artists (painters and photographers) at times and involving a lot of hanging around at pubs.
	grandtextauto.gatech.edu /2003/09/04/observation-on-mass-observation (705 words)

	Lawrence & Wishart Independent Publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This special issue of new formations explores the history and the cultural politics of Mass-Observation, the movement, founded in 1937, which brought ethnographic fieldwork and observation to bear on everyday life in Britain.
		Also in this issue is an account of mass observation in a different context.
		Firstly, it explores the history and the cultural politics of the Mass-Observation movement, the project of bringing ethnographic fieldwork and observation to bear on everyday life in Britain, which came into being in 1937.
	www.l-w-bks.co.uk /journals/newformations/archive/newformations44.html (439 words)

	Mass-Observation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They also paid investigators to record people's conversation and behaviour at work, on the street and at various public occasions including public meetings, and (An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition) sporting and (A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience) religious events.
		The early prime movers behind Mass Observation were anthropologist (Click link for more info and facts about Tom Harrisson) Tom Harrisson, poet (Click link for more info and facts about Charles Madge) Charles Madge and the film-maker (Click link for more info and facts about Humphrey Jennings) Humphrey Jennings.
		Other collaborators in this work include: William Coldstream and Graham Bell (both painters), Julian Trevelyan (collagist), and (Click link for more info and facts about Humphrey Spender) Humphrey Spender, a photographer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mass-observation1.htm (477 words)

	BerksFHS Family Historian Jun 2002 - 'The Mass-Observation Archive by Joy Eldridge
		Both a team of observers and a panel of volunteer writers studied the everyday life of ordinary people in Britain throughout the Second World War and into the early 1950s.
		The observational team of paid investigators went to meetings, religious occasions, sporting and leisure activities, in the street and at work, and recorded people's behaviour and conversation in as much detail as possible.
		The material they produced is a varied documentary account of life in Britain at that time.
	berksfhs.org.uk /journal/Jun2002/jun2002TheMassObservationArchive.htm (567 words)

	Mass Observation Project Case Study
		It has bequeathed to us one of the richest and most diverse accounts by, and about, ordinary people during those years.
		Children’s Millennium book cover, the originals now part of the Mass Observation Archive
		That archive is now a public resource open to anyone who is interested in twentieth century social history.
	www.semlac.org.uk /casestudies_massobserv.html (309 words)

	WCML - Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Founded in 1933 and housed in a C18th building once used by the SDF and Lenin, the library houses books, pamphlets and periodicals on all aspects of Marxism, the science of Socialism and history of working-class movements
		MO was a remarkable project, founded by Charles Madge, Tom Harrisson and Humphrey Jennings in 1937 which aimed to create "the science of ourselves", a remarkable documentation of everyday life in Britain carried out through empirical observation, diaries, photographs and much else.
		Based at Warwick University, the Centre aims to collect and make available for research original sources for British social and economic history, especially labour history, industrial relations and industrial politics.
	www.wcml.org.uk /wcml/links.htm (1199 words)

	Mass Observation Lecture and Discussion - London City Guide venues & listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mass Observation Lecture and Discussion - London City Guide venues & listings
		Dorothy Sheridan director of Special Collections at the University of Sussex library and Mass Observation archivist will talk about Mass Observation, a unique anthropological survey.
		The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture in North London is offering up some of the loudest and liveliest patterns anyone has ever chosen to face or deface the walls of their living spaces. Sunglasses may be required.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /london/events/EDR12425.html?ixsid= (127 words)

	Desktop Display Ltd: Media and technical services: Mass Observation Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Held as part of Special Collections at the University of Sussex Library, the Mass Observation Archive specialises in research material about everyday life in Britain.
		Through its website users can browse catalogues and lists of materials collected since the archive was established in the 1930s.
		Because of our reputation for documenting personal reminiscences, we were asked to design a template that visually reflected the archive's printed material, was appealing to users and simple for non-technical staff to maintain and update.
	www.display.co.uk /massobs_intro.html (110 words)

	BULLETIN 6th June 97 - MASS OBSERVATION
		The collection of writings came to Sussex in 1970 at the request of Asa Briggs, the former Vice-Chancellor.
		Since then the Archive has carried out a number of projects, ranging from people's observations of street parties during the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations to diaries and reports covering people's experiences and opinions during both the Falklands War and the Gulf War.
		The Mass-Observation Archive currently has over 500 people writing for them at least three times a year.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /press_office/bulletin/06jun97/item8.html (1109 words)

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