As my interests in technology and education merge, I have found some interesting ethnography topics bouncing around the web. The insights relevant to you are that you are in the middle of this... how do you learn, innovate, and persist in technology taking these things into consideration? Importantly, how do you integrate with people who do not engage in these things (such as potential employers, deans, mentors)??
Now, don't visit these sites when you're supposed to be doing work... (chances are that if you're reading this, you're not in the book-learning mode anyway). Links below...
Ethnography (Greek ' ethnos = folk/people and ' graphein = writing) is a methodological strategy used to provide descriptions of human societies, which as a methodology does not prescribe any particular method (e.g. observation, interview, questionnaire), but instead prescribes the nature of the ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography
Some of the sites that I find interesting are:
From Mike Wesch: http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch
(nice lecture on what web ethnography is about)
The FischBowl: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
(Check out his presentations on the right side)