For those interested in analyzing Tweets, some details about approaches and tools: A collection of presentations on Twitter research methods.
Round up of relevant articles, videos from around the web on big data: big content/big data quickies.
For those interested in analyzing Tweets, some details about approaches and tools: A collection of presentations on Twitter research methods.
Round up of relevant articles, videos from around the web on big data: big content/big data quickies.
Some links from class today, examples of photo manipulation, misrepresented images:
Following from the piece on Distributed Cognition in the Airplane Cockpit, here is a very detailed account in Popular Mechanics about the crash of air france flight 447.
An example of a ‘product’ of true grounded theory practice. This one is especially relevant to our fieldwork on public spaces: “Women Alone in Urban Public Places: Managing Approachability” by Janet Tokerud (1975) from Examples of Grounded Theory: A Reader.
What is ‘Theory‘ in Grounded Theory. An article by one of the two scholars responsible for developing this approach. Draws a very sharp distinction between grounded theory (GT) and qualitative data analysis (QDA). Useful to know and understand even if we don’t necessarily adhere to GT exactly as Glaser defines it.
We’ll be talking about big data later in the semester, but here’s a piece on the Harvard Business Review blog about the difference between documenting trends and understanding meaning and motives. Refers to Clifford Geertz piece on “thick description” which is assigned for Thursday: Read it.
From Tuesday:
Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan. (2010) The Weirdest People in the World? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33: 61-135 [doi:10.1017/S0140525X0999152X] abstract excerpt: Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world’s top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers – often implicitly – assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that these “standard subjects” are as representative of the species as any other population. Are these assumptions justified?
From Thursday:
‘Sampling and Census 2000: The Concepts‘, from American Scientist.
Do Cell Phones Affect Survey Research? A short piece (with some links to further reading) from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.