In preparation for Stuart Geiger’s guest talk on the ethnography of Wikipedia (scheduled for Oct 2nd), I’ve added the following readings to the syllabus:
[1] http://www.stuartgeiger.com/trace-ethnography-hicss-geiger-ribes.pdf
[2] http://www.stuartgeiger.com/papers/cscw-sustaining-order-wikipedia.pdf
Also, since I will be out of town, I will not be holding office hours this week.
The worksheet for assignment 1 is available here. This worksheet contains all the details for what you should do in your 1-page analysis and what you will turn in to me on Tuesday Oct. 9th.
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.
This article was accidentally omitted from your reader. It is available here.
Just a reminder to print out your fieldnotes, cut them up (incident by incident) and put each incident on a notecard in preparation for our analysis exercise today.
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.
On the broad theme of ethnomethodologically-inspired disruption and our study of “how people engage with technologies in public space”:
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.