This is the course website for INFO 272 in a previous year.
For this year’s website go here.
RRR week office hours
I’ll be available for consultation about the final project or any other course related questions this week Tuesday and Thursday 12:30pm – 2pm (our regular course meeting time). My office is room 312, upstairs from the classroom. This will be in lieu of the Tuesday 4-6pm office hours.
Final Project
Assignment sheet for the final project is available for download. The assignment is due 12/12/11 by email.
Tuesday teach-out and office hours
Tuesday class will be meeting off campus to discuss ethics in qualitative research at Le Petit Cheval restaurant. We will be meeting at the same time class normally meets 12:30. I will cover the cost of lunch for students who show up.
I have added one more reading on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and made the de Laine reading on ‘ethical dilemmas’ optional.
My office hours this week are canceled, but please e-mail me to schedule an alternate time if you would like to meet.
Applied / Design Ethnography
Updated the resources page with a short list of recommended readings in applied and design ethnography.
Good and Bad Interviews
Examples now posted in the workshop section. A bad interview about the concept of information from my fieldwork in Uganda. A good interview and a couple of bad interviews with commentary from the book Learning From Strangers, by Robert S. Weiss.
Assignment #2 Sheet Handed Out
The assignment sheet for assignment #2 was handed out in class on Tuesday (10/11)
Additional reading (optional) for Thursday
In addition to the assigned Suchman and Jordan article on ‘interactional troubles in face-to-face survey interviews’ I’ve uploaded comments that were published along with this piece in the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Some of these comments explain and defend survey research against the validity concerns posed by Suchman and Jordan and add some further insight into how qualitative and quantitative researchers think in different ways about the methods they use.
Findings from our analysis workshop
Photos of our final analysis from our workshop exercise are now posted in the workshop section. Additionally I went ahead and mocked up an outline for the report we might write that organizes our findings.
For Tuesday – Analysis Exercise
Please cut and paste your fieldnotes onto 20 notecards each with a single fieldwork ‘incident.’ An incident is any mundane or not-so-mundane observation from the field. We will use these in our analysis exercise on Tuesday.