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Introduction, Ethics, and Institutional Review Boards Course introduction, expectations, scope. Overview of basics around working with human subjects, ethics, consent.
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 Boellstorff, Nardi, Pearce Celia, et al. "Ethics" and "Human Subjects Clearance and Institutional Review Boards." In Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780691149516. [Preview with Google Books]
Seveningsson Elm, Malin. "How do Various Notions of Privacy Influence Decisions in Qualitative InternetResearch?" In Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. Sage Publications, 2008. ISBN: 9781412910019. [Preview with Google Books] Orgad, Shani. "How can Researchers Make Sense of the Issues Involved in Collecting and Interpreting Online and Offline Data?" In Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. Sage Publications, 2008. ISBN: 9781412910019. [Preview with Google Books] Optional Example reference: T. L. Taylor Institutional Review Board Application from December 2012 (PDF - 1.1MB)  The iMoMS (Ian's Map of Media Studies) (PDF - 1.2MB)
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Framing Social Science Research What different methods are good for, evidence and argumentation, social science and qualitative methods.
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May, Tim. "Social Theory and Social Research." In Social Research: Issues, Methods and Research. 4th ed. Open University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780335235674. [Preview with Google Books] Schwandt, Thomas. "Three Epistemological Stances for Qualitative Inquiry." In The Landscape of Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues. 2nd ed. Sage Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9780761926948. Becker, Howard. "How I Learned What a Crock Was." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 22, no. 1 (1993): 28–35. Geertz, Clifford. "Thick Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture." In The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780465097197. Orgad, Shani. "How can Researchers Make Sense of the Issues Involved in Collecting & Interpreting Online & Offline Data?" In Internet Inquiry: Conversations about Method. Sage Publications, 2008. ISBN: 9781412910002. [Preview with Google Books] Optional May, Tim. "Perspectives on Social Scientific Research." In Social Research: Issues, Methods and Research. 4th ed. Open University Press, 20011. ISBN: 9780335235674. [Preview with Google Books]
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Participant Observation Negotiating entry, self-presentation, fieldnotes, levels of involvement, exit. Advanced Topic: Risk & Crime
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Emerson, Robert, et al. "Participant Observation and Fieldnotes." In Handbook of Ethnography. Sage Publications Limited, 2001. ISBN: 9780761958246. [Preview with Google Books] Berreman, Gerald D. "Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management." In Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. ISBN: 9781405125925. Pink, Sarah. "Re-sensing Participant Observation: Sensory Emplaced Learning." In Doing Sensory Ethnography. Sage Publications Limited, 2009. ISBN: 9781412948036. [Preview with Google Books] Trigger, et al. "Revelatory Moments in Fieldwork." Qualitative Research 12, no. 5 (2012): 513–27. Fetterman, David. "Walking in Rhythm: Anthropological Concepts." In Ethnography: Step-by-Step. 2nd ed. Sage Publications, Incorporation, 1997. ISBN: 9780761913856. Advanced Topic Readings Lyng, Stephen. "Dangerous Methods: Risk Taking and the Research Process." In Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. Northeastern University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9781555533335. [Preview with Google Books] Ferrell, Jeff. "Criminological Verstehen: Inside the Immediacy of Crime." In Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. Northeastern University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9781555533335.
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The Monograph I Close read of a published ethnography.
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Condry, Ian. The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity in Japan's Media Success Story. Duke University Press Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780822353942. |
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Interviews Recruiting / approaching, open-ended vs. structured, formal vs. informal, thematic, biographical, questioning, recording, transcribing, coding, organizing, synthesizing. Directed vs. semi-directed, marketing vs. social science. Visit by Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Advanced Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality
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Spradley, James P. The Ethnographic Interview. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1979, pp. 45–68, 78–91, 120–31, and 155–72. Kuniavsky, Mike. "Focus Groups." In Observing the User Experience. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. ISBN: 9781558609235. [Preview with Google Books] Morgan, David L. "Focus Group Interviewing." In Handbook of Interview Research. Edited by Gubrium & Holstein. Sage Publications, Incorporation, 2001. ISBN: 9780761919513. Thomas, Robert J. "Interviewing Important People in Big Companies." The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 22, no. 1 (1993): 80–96. Advanced Topic Readings Shields, Stephen. "Gender: An Intersectional Perspective." Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 59, no. 5 (2008): 301–11. Jordan-Zachery, Julia S. "Am I a Black Woman or a Woman Who is Black? A few Thoughts on the Meaning of Intersectionality." Politics & Gender 3, no. 2 (2007): 254–63. Pascoe, C. J. "What If a Guy Hits on You?" In Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. UC Berkeley Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520252301. Optional Crenshaw, Kimberle. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Idenitity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1241–99. Kendall, Lori. "How do Issues of Gender and Sexuality Influence the Structures and Processes of Qualitative Internet Research?" In Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. Edited by Markham and Baym. Sage Publications, Incorporation, 2008. ISBN: 9781412910019.
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Technology Thinking about technology & values in social science work, non-human actors, "flat" ontologies, assemblage. Advanced Topic: Ontology & Agency
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 Latour, Bruno. "Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts." In Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. MIT Press, 1992, pp. 225–58. ISBN: 9780262023382.
Star, Susan Leigh. "The Ethnography of Infrastructure." American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3 (1999): 377–91. Taylor, T. L. "The Assemblage of Play." Games and Culture 4, no. 4 (2009): 331–9. Advanced Topic Readings Sayes, Edwin. "Actor-network Theory and Methodology: Just What does it Mean to Say That Nonhumans have Agency?" Social Studies of Science 44, no. 1 (2014): 134–49. Lynch, Michael. "Ontography: Investigating the Production of Things, Deflating Ontology." Social Studies of Science 43, no. 3 (2013): 444–62. Caplan, Paul. "Software Tunnels Through the Rags 'n Refuse: Object Oriented Software Studies and Platform Politics." (PDF) Culture Machine 14 (2013). Winner, Langdon. "Do Artifacts have Politics?" Daedalus 109, no. 1 (1980): 121–36.
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Visual Materials Working with the visual as a node of social life, producing images within fieldwork, privacy & publics, using the visual for analysis and argumentation
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Pink, Sarah. "Classifying and Interpreting Photographic and Video Materials." In Doing Visual Ethnography. Sage Publications Limited, 2013. ISBN: 9781446211175. ———. "Photography in Ethnographic Research." In Doing Visual Ethnography. Sage Publications Limited, 2013. ISBN: 9781446211175.
Optional ———. "Video in Ethnographic Research." In Doing Visual Ethnography. Sage Publications Limited, 2013. ISBN: 9781446211175. Boellstorff, Nardi, Pearce, et al. "Three Brief Histories." In Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 13–28. ISBN: 9780691149516. [Preview with Google Books]
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Cultural Probes and Artifacts Using documents, archives, 3rd party materials. Artifacts to capture and elicit data, activity-logs, time journals, use in creative design research vs. social science.
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Gaver, Bill, Tony Dunne, et al. "Design: Cultural Probes." Interactions 6, no. 1 (1999): 21–9. Robertson, Shanthi. "Cultural Probes in Transmigrant Research: A Case Study." Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 4, no. 2 (2008): 1–25. Tilley, Christopher. "Ethnography and Material Culture." In Handbook of Ethnography. Sage Publications Limited, 2001. ISBN: 9780761958246. Latour, Bruno. "Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest." In Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780674653368. [Preview with Google Books] Optional Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto." In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 9780415903875. [Preview with Google Books]
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Usability Utilizing some basic observation and interview techniques for applied purposes. Advanced Topic: Studying Up
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Kuniavsky, Mike. "Usability Tests." In Observing the User Experience. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 9781558609235. [Preview with Google Books] ———. "Do a Usability Test Now!" In Observing the User Experience. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 9781558609235. [Preview with Google Books] Microsoft User Research. Do-it-Yourself Usability: A Crash Course on User-Testing. GDC, 2005. Advanced Topic Readings Nader, Laura. "Up the Anthropolgoist—perspectives Gained from Studying Up." In Reinventing Anthropology. Pantheon Books, 1972. ISBN: 9780876651131. Gusterson, Hugh. "Studying Up Revisited". Polar 20, no. 1 (1997): 114–9. Seaver, Nick. "Studying Up: The Ethnography of Technologists." Ethnography Matters. March 10, 2014. Optional Fullerton, Tracy. "Playtesting." In Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games. Morgan Kaufmann, 2008. ISBN: 9780240809748. [Preview with Google Books]
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Analysis Some additional techniques / tricks / approaches to analyzing material not previously covered in weekly sessions. Advanced Topic: Reciprocity
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Crang, Mike, and Ian Cook. "Analyzing Field Materials." In Doing Ethnographies. Sage Publications Limited, 2007. ISBN: 9780761944461. Clarke, Adele. "Doing Situational Maps and Analysis." In Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Sage Publications, Incorporation, 2005. ISBN: 9780761930563. Lapadat, Judith C., and Anne C. Lindsay. "Transcription in Research and Practice: From Standardization of Technique to Interpretive Positionings." Qualitative Inquiry 5, no. 1 (1999): 64–86. Fetterman, David. "Finding your Way Through the Forest: Analysis." In Ethnography Step-by-Step. Sage Publications, Incorporation, 1998. ISBN: 9781412950459. [Preview with Google Books] Advanced Topic Readings Lather, Patti. "Research as Praxis." Harvard Educational Review 56, no. 3 (1986). Weems, Lisa. "Unsettling Politics, Locating Ethics: Representation of Reciprocity in Postpositivist Inquiry." Qualitative Inquiry 12, no. 5 (2006): 994–1011. Fine, Gary Alan. "Ten Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 22, no. 3 (1993): 267–94.
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Creating Persuasive Arguments Writing and the creation of truths, social fictions, generalizablity, thinking about audiences / uses of social science. Advanced Topic: Generalization
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Crang, Mike, and Ian Cook. "Writing Through Materials." In Doing Ethnographies. Sage Publications Limited, 2007. ISBN: 9780761944461. Clifford, James. "Introduction: Partial Truths." In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. University of California Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780520057296. [Preview with Google Books] Fine, et al. "For whom? Qualitative Research, Representations, and Social Responsibilities." In The Landscape of Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues. 2nd ed. Sage Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9780761926948. Advanced Topic Readings Payne, Geoff, and Malcon Williams. "Generalization in Qualitative Research." Sociology 39, no. 2 (2005): 295–314. Flyvbjerg, Bent. "Five Misunderstandings about Case-study Research". Qualitative Inquiry 12, no. 2 (2006): 219–45.
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The Monograph II Close Read of a Published Ethnography.
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Larkin, Brian. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780822341086. [Preview with Google Books] Mills, C. Wright. "On Intellectual Craftsmanship." In The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1959. ISBN: 9780195000221.
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