DATE | TOPIC | READINGS (please read before class) | SLIDES |
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Thu 8/23/12 | What is Qualitative Research? | 01_introduction | |
Tue 8/28/12 | Components of Research Design | – Becker, Epistemology of Qualitative Research (handed out in class, and available here)
Optional: |
02_research_design |
Thu 8/30/12 | Sampling and Corpus Construction | – Lofland and Lofland, Chap. 1-3 [download] – Becker, ‘Sampling’ from Tricks of the Trade [CR] – Bauer and Aarts, ‘Corpus Construction’ [CR] |
03_corpus_construction |
Tue 9/4/12, Thu 9/6/12 | Observation, Participation, and Ethnography | For Tuesday: – Blomberg et al., ‘An Ethnographic Approach to Design’ (pgs. 965-973) [CR] – Lofland and Lofland, on logging data – The UC Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects the Belmont Report For Thursday: – Geertz, ‘Thick Description’ [CR] – Clifford, ‘On Ethnographic Authority’ [CR] – Rosaldo, ‘Subjectivity in Social Analysis’ [CR] |
questions for the readings |
Tue 9/11/12 | Discussion of Observation Exercise | ||
Thu 9/13/12 | Locating Fieldwork: Multi-Sitedness and Virtuality in Ethnographic Research | – Marcus, ‘Ethnography in/of the World System’ [CR] – Burrell, ‘The Fieldsite as a Network’ [CR] – WRITING EXAMPLE: Boellstorff, Selections from Coming of Age in Second Life [CR] |
06_virtual_ethnography |
Tue 9/18/12 | Discussion of Observation Exercise | ||
Thu 9/20/12 | Analysis Practices – Coding and Generating Themes | – Charmaz, ‘Invitation to Grounded Theory’ and ‘Coding in Grounded Theory Practice’ [CR] – Lofland and Lofland, chap. 9 |
08_grounded_theory |
Tue 9/25/12 | Analysis Workshop 1 | [come prepared with your note cards] | |
Thu 9/27/12 | After Analysis: Writing Up Based on Participant-Observation Work | – WRITING EXAMPLE: Spitulnik, Zambian Radio Culture [CR] – WRITING EXAMPLE: Hutchins and Klausen, Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit [CR] |
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Tue 10/2/12 | Guest Speaker: Stuart Geiger, speaking about the challenges of doing an ethnography of Wikipedia | – Geiger, S. and D. Ribes, Trace Ethnography – available here – Geiger, S. and D. Ribes, The Banning of a Vandal – available here |
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10/4/12 | Class Cancelled (Prof Out Of Town) | ||
Tue 10/9/12 | Interviewing 1 – Introduction [Assignment 1 due] |
– Weiss, introduction to Learning From Strangers [CR] – Suchman and Jordan, ‘Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews’ [CR] – Lofland and Lofland, on designing interview guides (Chapter 5, section III) – comments on the Suchman and Jordan article (by statisticians, survey researchers, a conversation analyst, plus a rejoinder by Suchman and Jordan) |
10_interviewing |
Thu 10/11/12 | Focus Groups and Expert/Elite Interviews (Panel discussion) | Required: – Morgan and Krueger, ‘When to Use Focus Groups and Why’ [CR] – Thomas 1995, ‘Interviewing Important People in Big Companies’ [CR] Optional: |
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Tue 10/16/12 | Workshop – Critique of Interview Techniques | 11_interviewing2 | |
Thu 10/18/12 | Projective Interviewing | – Harper, ‘Talking about Pictures: a case for photo elicitation’ [CR] – Young and Barrett, ‘Adapting Visual Methods: action research with Kampala street children’ [CR] – Anderson et al, ‘Numbers have Qualities Too: Experiences in Ethno-Mining’ [CR] |
12_projective_interview |
Tue 10/23/12 | The Role of Document Analysis in Field-Based Research | – Garfinkel, ‘Good Organizational Reasons for ‘Bad’ Clinical Records [CR] – WRITING EXAMPLE: Heath and Luff, ‘Documents and Professional Practice’ [CR] |
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Thu 10/25/11 | Discussion of Interviews | ||
Tue 10/30/12 | The Role of Image Analysis in Field-Based Research | – Rose, Content Analysis [CR] – Rose, Semiology [CR] |
15_image_analysis |
Thu 11/1/12 | Design Ethnography | – Blomberg et al., ‘An Ethnographic Approach to Design’ (pgs. 973-984) [CR] – Dourish, ‘Implications for Design’ [CR] – Suchman, Lucy “Anthropology as ‘Brand’: Reflections on Corporate Anthropology” [here] |
16_ethno_for_design |
Tue 11/6/12 | Evaluating Qualitative Research [Assignment 2 due] |
– Bauer and Gaskell, ‘Towards Public Accountability: beyond sampling, reliability, and validity’ [CR] – Kvale, ‘The Social Construction of Validity’ [CR] – Jordan and Dalal, ‘Persuasive Encounters: Ethnography in the Corporation’ [CR] |
17_evaluation |
Tue 11/8/12 | Ethics | – Thorne, “You Still Takin’ Notes?” Fieldwork and problems of informed consent.” [CR] – Bruckman, “Studying the Amateur Artist: A Perspective on Disguising Data Collected in Human Subjects Research on the Internet,” in Ethics and Information Technology. [CR] – de Laine, “Ethical Dilemmas: the demands and expectations of various audiences,” in Fieldwork, Participation, and Practice: Ethics and Dilemmas in Qualitative Research. [CR] |
18_ethics |
Thu 11/13/12 | Guest Speaker: Kathi Kitner, Senior Researcher/Anthropologist, Intel Labs/IXR/XIL | ||
Thu 11/15/12 | Project Discussion and Thoughts on Writing Up | – Lofland and Lofland, on writing up – Kvale, ‘improving research reports’ [here] |
20_analysis_pointers |
Tue 11/20/12 | Big Data | – Boyd and Crawford, “Critical Questions for Big Data” in Information, Communication & Society [CR] – The Ethnographer’s Complete Guide to Big Data (series of blog posts at ethnography matters) – by Jenna Burrell [Part I] [Part II] [Part III] |
21_big_data |
Thu 11/22/12 | Thanksgiving – NO CLASS | ||
Tue 11/27/12 | The Role of Recording Technologies in Data Collection | – Nafus and Anderson, ‘The Real Problem: Rhetorics of Knowing in Corporate Ethnographic Research’ [CR] – Hasbrouck and Faulkner, “Why are you taking my picture?” Navigating the Cultural Contexts of Visual Procurement [CR] |
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Thu 11/29/12 | Discussion and Exercise | – (reread) Becker, Epistemology of Qualitative Research. Available here. |