SPRING 2008 - archived course materials
Syllabus
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DATE | TOPIC | READINGS (please read before class) | SLIDES |
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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] |
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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 |
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Thu 5.8.08 | Discussion and Exercise | - (reread) Becker, Epistemology of Qualitative Research [CR] |