Television Infrared Observation Satellite | Pearl the Observation Car | Surface weather observation | Participant Media | Earth observation satellite | Bird Observation & Conservation Australia | Observation Tower Burgholzhof | Detail of Peiresc's notes recording his first observation of the Orion Nebula |
Layard in Atchin and his contemporary Bronisław Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands of New Guinea were the first modern anthropologists to use what is today called participant observation methods in ethnographic research.
Activities facilitated by CSRS include major data collection projects, seminars, colloquia, lectures, conferences, grant writing and the building of an infrastructure for survey, interviews-based, and participant-observation social research.
Electronic records such as email and instant message records, hyperlinks on the World Wide Web, mobile phone usage, and discussion on Usenet allow social scientists to directly observe and analyze social behavior at multiple points in time and multiple levels of analysis without the constraints of traditional empirical methods such as interviews, participant observation, or survey instruments.