COGR 201L Qualitative Analysis and  Information Systems:   Brian Goldfarb, Spring 2008 | Communication | UCSD

Resources:

 

• Free concordance software for Mac:
  • casualconc http://sites.google.com/site/casualconc/
  • concorder pro http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/programs/concorderPro/concorderPro.html
  • antconc http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html
• software for qualitative analysis: http://www.content-analysis.de/software/qualitative-analysis
• Zotero (tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.) http://www.zotero.org/
• My Stickies (sticky notes for the web): http://www.mystickies.com/about

Visualization:

• Many Eyes: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
• Touchgraph:
  • Facebook: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGFacebookBrowser.html
  • Google http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
• Digital Research Tools Wiki (DIRT): visualization tools http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Data-Visualization
• Alan Liu's Toychest (tools for visualization and analysis) http://wiki.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/Toy_Chest_%28Online_or_Downloadable_Tools_for_Building_Projects%29
• Alan Liu's English236 project page: http://english236-w2008.pbworks.com/Project+Pages
• Visualization and Transparency of Raw Data : http://www.gcn.com/Articles/2009/08/24/Data-visualization-tools-for-better-transparency.aspx?Page=1
• Data-mining Visualization Software: http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/visualization.html
• Mapping and coding software: http://swik.net/maps+visualization
• 16 Data Visualization tools (some of the links are outdated): http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/16-awesome-data-visualization-tools/
• Yahoo Pipeline http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
• Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends/
• Google Fusion Tables: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home
• Visual Complixity: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
• Visualizing.org http://www.visualizing.org/
• Periodic Table of Visualization: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
• Natalie Bookchin's Testament Youtube compilations:http://bookchin.net/projects/testament.html
• Warren Sack, Conversation Map: http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/IUI/Sack/Sack.html or http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/ConversationMap/EmpyreArchive/Manual/publications.html

 

 

week: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  | 5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10

Week One (Jan 10):  Introduction

Week Two (Jan 17): Situating Qualitative Inquiry

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Week Three (Jan 24): Situating Qualitative Inquiry

• Fiske: Brief Primer on Qualitative Research and Coding http://pdfdatabase.com/download_file_i.php?file=6300606&desc=156+Fisk+overview+qualitative+research+.pdf
• Qualitative Theory: Data Analysis: http://qualitativeresearch.ratcliffs.net/5.htm
• Coding and Qualitative Analysis: http://www.southalabama.edu/coe/bset/johnson/lectures/lec17.pdf
• Kelle, "Theory Building in Qualitative Research using Computer Programs" http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/2/1.html
• Cateral and Maclaren, "Focus Group Data and Qualitative Analysis": http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/1/6.html
• How and What to Code: http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/Intro_QDA/how_what_to_code.php
• The Software Studies Initiative : http://lab.softwarestudies.com/

Week Four (Jan 31):Ethnography of Cybercultures; Technologies as Actors

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Week Five (Feb 7): Technologies as Actors    

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Week Six (Feb 14): Historical Research and Material Culture of Info Technology

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Week Seven (Feb 21): Visual Data and Creative Research Methods

Week Eight (Feb 28) Ethical Dimensions of Qualitative Research

• AAA Code of Ethics: http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethicscode.pdf
• UCSD Human Subjects Committee Website: http://irb.ucsd.edu/

Week Nine (Mar 5) Social Networks

Week Ten (June 6):