SPRING 2008 - archived course materials

Syllabus

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DATE TOPIC READINGS (please read before class) SLIDES
Tue 1.22.08 What is Qualitative Research? intro
Thu 1.24.08 Components of Research Design - Becker, Epistemology of Qualitative Research, http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/qa.html
- Haraway, Situated Knowledges [CR]		 research design
Tue 1.29.08 Sampling and Corpus Construction - Lofland and Lofland, Chap. 1-3
- Becker, 'Sampling' from Tricks of the Trade [CR]
- Bauer and Aarts, 'Corpus Construction' [CR]
- Census Sensitivity, article in the Economist, [URL] (optional) 		corpus construction
Thu 1.31.08, Tue 2.5.08 Observation, Participation, and Ethnography - The UC Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects the Belmont Report
- Lofland and Lofland, on logging data
- Clifford, 'On Ethnographic Authority' [CR]
- Geertz, 'Thick Description' [CR]
- Rosaldo, 'Subjectivity in Social Analysis' [CR] 		1) participant observation

2) ethnography and subjectivity
Thu 2.7.08 Discussion of Observation Exercise
Tue 2.12.08 Locating Fieldwork: Multi-Sitedness and Virtuality in Ethnographic Research - Marcus, 'Ethnography in/of the World System' [CR]
- Hines, 'The Virtual Objects of Ethnography' [CR]
- Turkle, 'TinySex and Gender Trouble' [CR] 		virtual ethnography
Thu 2.14.08 Discussion of Observation Exercise
Tue 2.19.08 Theory of Analysis: The Politics of Categorization - Bowker and Star, 'The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification Under Apartheid' [CR] categorization
Thu 2.21.08 Analysis Practices - Coding and Generating Themes
[Assignment 1 Due]		 - Charmaz, 'Invitation to Grounded Theory' and 'Coding in Grounded Theory Practice' [CR]
- Lofland and Lofland, chap. 9		 grounded theory
Tue 2.26.08 Analysis Workshop
Thu 2.28.08 CLASS CANCELLED (iSchool conference in LA)
Tue 3.04.08, Thu 3.06.08 Interviewing - Suchman and Jordan, 'Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews [CR]
- Lofland and Lofland, on designing interview guides
- Kvale, 'The Interview as Conversation' [CR]		 1) introduction to interviewing

1) interviewing - II
Tue 3.11.08 Projective Interviewing - Rose, 'Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project' [CR]
- Young and Barrett, 'Adapting Visual Methods: action research with Kampala street children' [CR]
- Gaver, 'Cultural Probes' [CR] 		projective interviewing
Thu 3.13.08 Group Interviews and Focus Groups - Morgan and Krueger, 'When to Use Focus Groups and Why' [CR]
- Albreecht et al., 'Understanding Communication Processes in Focus Groups' [CR]		 focus groups
Tue 3.18.08 Guest Speaker, Allison Woodruff, Intel Research Berkeley - Woodruff et al., 'A Bright Green Perspective on Sustainable Choices' (optional) [URL]
- Woodruff et al., 'Sabbath Day Home Automation' (optional) [URL]
Thu 3.20.08 Discussion of Interviews
Tue 3.25.08, Thu 3.27.08 SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS
Tue 4.1.08 The Role of Document Analysis in Field-Based Research - Garfinkel, 'Good Organizational Reasons for 'Bad' Clinical Records [CR]
- Prior, 'Basic Themes: Use, Production and Content' from Using Documents in Social Research [CR]
- Glushko, 'Analyzing Documents' [URL] (optional)		 document and text analysis
Thu 4.3.08 The Role of Image Analysis in Field-Based Research [Assignment 2 Due] - Hansen, 'Analysing Visuals' [CR] image analysis
Tue 4.8.08 Studying Technology as Material Culture
- Star, 'The Ethnography of Infrastructure' [CR]
- Woolgar, 'Configuring the User: the case of usability trials' [CR]		 tech as material culture
Thu 4.10.08 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]		 data collection technologies
Tue 4.15.08 Ethics - The UC Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects the Belmont Report
- Alcoff, 'The Problem of Speaking for Others' [CR]
- de Laine, 'Ethical Dilemmas' [CR]		 Ethics
Thu 4.17.08 Evaluating Qualitative Research - 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]		 evaluation
Tue 4.22.08 Project Discussion Analysis Pointers
Thu 4.24.08 Ethnographic Research for Technology Design - Dourish, 'Implications for Design' [URL] Design Ethnography
Tue 4.29.08 Guest Speaker, Eric Paulos, Intel Research Berkeley
Thu 5.1.08 Project Discussion
Tue 5.6.08 Reading and Writing Up - Spitulnik, Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture (handed out in class)
- Lofland and Lofland, on writing up
Thu 5.8.08 Discussion and Exercise - (reread) Becker, Epistemology of Qualitative Research [CR]