SPRING 2009 - archived course materials

Syllabus

DATE TOPIC READINGS (please read before class) SLIDES
Tue 1.20.09 What is Qualitative Research? intro
Thu 1.22.09 Components of Research Design - Becker, Epistemology of Qualitative Research (handed out in class, and available here)
- Haraway, Situated Knowledges [CR]

Optional:
- Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests, Appendix 		research design
Tue 1.27.09 Sampling and Corpus Construction - Lofland and Lofland, Chap. 1-3
- Becker, 'Sampling' from Tricks of the Trade [CR]
- Bauer and Aarts, 'Corpus Construction' [CR] 		Corpus Construction
Thu 1.29.09, Tue 2.3.09 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] 		Participant-Observation

Ethnography
Thu 2.5.09 Discussion of Observation Exercise Brief Review
Tue 2.10.09 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]

Optional:
- Burrell, 'The Fieldsite as a Network' 		Virtual Ethnography
Thu 2.12.08 Discussion of Observation Exercise
Tue 2.17.09 Analysis Practices - Coding and Generating Themes - Charmaz, 'Invitation to Grounded Theory' and 'Coding in Grounded Theory Practice' [CR]
- Lofland and Lofland, chap. 9		 Grounded Theory
Thu 2.19.09 Analysis Workshop 1 Themes developed in the workshop
Tue 2.24.09 After Analysis: Writing Up Based on Participant-Observation Work - Spitulnik, Zambian Radio Culture[CR]
- Hutchins and Klausen, Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit [CR]
Thu 2.26.09 Analysis Workshop 2
Tue 3.3.09 Interviewing 1 - Introduction
[Assignment 1 Due]		 - Suchman and Jordan, 'Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews [CR]
- Kvale, 'The Interview as Conversation' [CR]
- Lofland and Lofland, on designing interview guides (Chapter 5, section III)
 Introduction to Interviewing
Thu 3.5.09 Guest Speaker, Dan Perkel, PhD Student, Information School
Tue 3.10.09 Interviewing 2 - Critique of Interview Techniques Interviewing II
Thu 3.12.09 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
Tue 3.17.09 Focus Groups and Expert Interviews - Morgan and Krueger, 'When to Use Focus Groups and Why' [CR]
- Albreecht et al., 'Understanding Communication Processes in Focus Groups' [CR]		 Focus Groups, Group Interviews, Expert Interviews
Thu 3.19.09 Guest Speaker, Elisa Oreglia on the Situation Report Project
Tue 3.24.09, Thu 3.26.09 SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS
Tue 3.31.09 Discussion of Interviews
Thu 4.2.09 The Role of Document Analysis in Field-Based Research - Garfinkel, 'Good Organizational Reasons for 'Bad' Clinical Records [CR]
- Heath and Luff, 'Documents and Professional Practice' [CR]
- Glushko, 'Analyzing Documents' [URL] (optional)		 Document and Text Analysis
Tue 4.7.09 The Role of Image Analysis in Field-Based Research [Assignment 2 Due] - Hansen, 'Analysing Visuals' [CR] Image Analysis
Thu 4.9.09 Operationalizing Theory in Technology Studies
- Woolgar, 'Configuring the User: the case of usability trials' [CR]
- Cowan, 'The Consumption Junction' [CR]
 Operationalizing Theory
Tue 4.14.09 Ethics - The UC Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects the Belmont Report
- Thorne, "You Still Takin' Notes?" Fieldwork and problems of informed consent." [CR]
- de Laine, 'Ethical Dilemmas' [CR]		 Ethics
Thu 4.16.09 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 and Quality Criteria
Tue 4.21.09 Analysis Pointers and Project Discussion Analysis pointers
Thu 4.23.09 Ethnographic Research for Technology Design - Dourish, 'Implications for Design' [URL] Design Ethnography

paper on vineyard research (optional, for those who are interested)
Tue 4.28.09 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
Thu 4.30.09 Project Discussion
Tue 5.5.09 Reading and Writing Up - Lofland and Lofland, on writing up Reading and Writing Up
Thu 5.7.09 Discussion and Exercise - (reread) Becker, Epistemology of Qualitative Research. Available here.
Fri 5.15.09 [Final Assignment Due]