COGR
201L
Qualitative Analysis
and
Information Systems
Winter 2012
Tuesdays 2PM - 4:50PM
Office Hours: Tues 11-12:30
Office: MCC 241
Brian Goldfarb
email:bgoldfarb @ ucsd.edu
Communication
UCSD
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course website: http://communication.ucsd.edu/goldfarb/COGR201L/
Course Overview:
This graduate seminar will consider the range of approaches to qualitative research and the challenges posed by information and communication technologies both as objects of study and means of academic inquiry. While focusing attention on information technology as a site of research in the humanities and social sciences, the course is equally engaged with recent debates and critical reflection on what it means do qualitative research. Course work will combine research exercises with seminar discussion engaging critical,
historical and ethnographic studies of information systems - we will look at the design and
use of information and communication technologies in their social, ethical,
political and organizational dimensions. Questions addressed
include: How do digital media shift the relationships between
researcher and subjects? What ethical challenges are presented by uses of networked media as research sites or research tools? What strategies can we use for dealing with multiple forms of media as data?
Requirements
- Participants will initiate discussion for
one of the weekly sessions with a short presentation framing key questions or concerns that the readings pose for the field, and a discussion of how they relate to the presenter's own research interests.
- Particpants will engage in short data collection/analysis exercises.
- A 15 page term paper addressing a topic relevant
to the seminar will be due at the beginning of finals week. The paper may engage address an area of your primary research interest through approaches discussed in the course; or can be a discussion of issues in qualitative analysis generated by this seminar.
Texts
- Yvonna Lincoln and Norma Denzin, eds, Turning Points in Qualitative Research: Tying Knots in a Handkerchief
- Adele E. Clarke, Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn
- Additional readings on WebCt or distributed as handouts
Course Schedule:
Note:
This is a preliminary schedule of readings that we will be discussing. Assigned readings will be adjusted to fit with the interests of participants and questions that arise in our seminar discussions. You will be notified as early as possible of any changes.
week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Week One (Jan 10): Introduction
- Course overview
- Guidelines for first data collection exercise
- Research topics/objects of study
Week Two
(Jan 17): Situating Qualitative Inquiry
- Yvonna Lincoln and Norman Denzin, eds, , "Introduction: Revolutions, Ruptures, and Rifts in Inquiry," (Turning Points)
- Donna Harraway, "Situated Knowledges," (Turning Points)
- Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward and Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology," (Turning Points)
- Kamala Visweswaran, "Defining Feminist Ethnography," (Turning Points)
Optional readings (we may read them later in the quarter):
- Clifford Geertz, "Thick Description:Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture," (Turning Points)
- Patti Lather, "Issues of Validity in Openly Ideological Research: Between a Rock and a Soft Place" (Turning points)
Week Three (Jan 24): Situating Qualitative Inquiry
- Adele E. Clarke, Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn, Prologue, Ch 1, Ch 2, Ch3
Week Four (Jan 31) Ethnography of Cybercultures and Information Systems
- George Marcus, "Ethnography In/Of the World System," Annual Review of Anthropology, 1995.
- Saskia Sassen "Towards a Sociology
of Information Technologies"
- Leigh Star, "The Ethnography of Infrastructure," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol 43, nol 3, 1999
Optional readings:
- Peter Lyman and Nina Wakeford, "Going into the (Virtual) Field"
- Raka Shome "Thinking through the diaspora Call centers, India, and a new politics of hybridity"
- Andrew Herman, Rosemary Coombe & Lewis Kaye, “Your Second Life? Goodwill and the performativity of intellectual property in online digital gaming”
- Daniel Miller and Don Slater, The
Internet: An Ethnographic Approach, Chapters One,
Two, Three, and Four
- Liav Sade-Beck, "Internet Ethnography:
Online and Offline," International Journal of Qualitative
Methods 3 (2) June, 2004
- Karen Riggs, Granny at Work
- Thomas M. Malaby, Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life
- Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life
- Ric Klinenberg and Claudio Benzecry, "Cultural Production in a Digital Age"
Week Five (Feb 7): Technologies as Actors
- John Law, "Notes on the Theory
of the Actor Network: Ordering, Strategy and Heterogeneity"
- Geof Bowker and Leigh Star, Sorting
things Out, "Introduction"
and Chapters 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10.
Optional readings:
- Paul Dourish, Where the Action Is, Ch3 "Social Computing," Ch 4 "Embodied Interaction" (net version through UC library).
- Nina Wakeford, "Pushing at the boundaries of new media studies"
- Phillip Agre, "Internet Research: For and Against"
- Ramesh Srinivasan, "Ethnomethodological Architectures: Information Systems Driven by Cultural and Community Visions"
Week Six (Feb 14): Historical Research and Material Culture of Info Technology
- Lisa Gitelman, Always Already New (selected chapters)
- Judith Babbitts, "Stereographs
and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States," Memory
Bytes, eds, Lauren Rabinowitz and Abraham Geil
- Adel Clarke, "Ch 7: Mapping Historical Discourses" in Situation Analysis
Optional readings:
- Thierry Bardini, Junkware
- Thierry Bardini, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing
- Rodney Harrison, "Excavating Second Life: Cyber-Archaeologies, Heritage and Virtual Communities"
- Colleen Reilly, "Sexualities and technologies: How vibrators help to explain computers"
- Alexander Galloway, "Global Networks and the Effects on Culture"
Week Seven
(Feb 21): Visual Data and Creative Research Methods
- David Guantlett, "Using New Creative Visual Research Methods to Understand the Place of Popular Media in People's Lives
- Michael Rich, "Health Literacy via Media Literacy: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment," American Behavior Scientist, V 48, n 2
- Adel Clarke, "Ch 6: Mapping Visual Discourses" in Situation Analysis
- Meade and Bateson, "The Use of the Camera in Anthropology," in Turning Points
Optional readings:
- Sarah Pink, "Mobilising Visual Ethnography: Making Routes, Making Place and Making Images"
- Jon Wagner, "Visible Materials, visualised theory and images of social research"
- David Gauntlett and Peter Holzworth "Creative and visual methods for exploring identities"
- Marcelo Ramella and Gonzalo Olmos, "Participant Authored Audio Visual Stories: Giving the Camera Away or Giving the Camera a Way?"
- Elisabeth Soep, "Learning about research from youth media artists" and "Beyond Literacy and Voice in Youth Media Production"
- Susan Finley, "Arts-Based Inquiry in QI: Seven Years From Crisis to Guerrilla Warfare"
- Jon Wagner, "Contrasting Images, Complementary Trajectories: Sociology, Visual Sociology and Visual Research,"
- Katherine Cross, Allison Kabel and Cathy Lysack, "Images of self and spinal cord injury: exploring drawing as a visual method in disability research"
- Marcus Banks, Visual Methods in Social Research
Week Eight (Feb 28) Ethical Dimensions of Qualitative Research
- Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba, "Ethics: The Failure of Positivist Science" (Turing Points)
- Dwight Conquergood, "Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance," (Turning Points)
- Dwight Conquergood, "Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics,"(Turning Points)
- AAA Code of Ethics: http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethicscode.pdf
Optional readings:
Week Nine (Mar 5) Social Networks
Week
Ten (Mar 12): Presentations
Finals Week (Mar 19): FINAL PAPER due on March 19
Additional Reading:
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Control and Freedom
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
- Elizabeth Losh, Virtualpolitik
- Karen Riggs Granny @ Work
- LKatrien Jacobs, Netporn
- Marianne Van Den Booman et al, eds, Digital Material
- Lampland and Starr, eds, Standards and Their Stories
- Thomas Malaby, Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life
- Lucy Suchman, Jeanette Blomberg, Julian E. Orr and Randall Trigg , "Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice "
- David Phillips, "Negotiating the Digital Closet: Online Pseudonymity and the Politics of Sexual Identity"
- Ingunn Moser, "Disability and the Promises of Technology: Technology, subjectivity and embodiment within an order of the
normal"
- Ingunn Moser and John Law, “Making Voices: New Media Technologies,
Disabilities, and Articulation” in Digital Media Revisited,
eds, Liestol, Morrison and Rasmussen
- Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell, Digital Disability, Chapters 1, 2, 7 and 8 (pp 3-38, 129-154)
- Bent Flyvbjerg, "Five misunderstandings about case-study research"
- Mimi White and James Schwoch, eds., Questions of Method in Cultural Studies
- Auturo Escobar "Notes on the Anthropology
of Cyberculture" The Cyberculture Reader eds, David Bell and Barbara
Kennedy
- Paul Rabinow, “Representations are social facts: modernity and post- modernity in anthropology.” In James Clifford and George Marcus. Writing Culture.
- Paul Dourish, Rebecca Grinter, Jessica Delgado De La FlorAnd Melissa Joseph, " Security in the Wild: User Strategies for Managing Security as an Everyday, Practical Problem"
- Ramesh Srinivasan, "Indigenous, ethnic and cultural articulations of new media"
- Bowker, N., & Tuffin, K. (2003). "Dicing with deception: People with disabilities' strategies for managing safety and identity online." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication [On-line], 8 (2) . Available: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue2/bowker.html
- Media Worlds. Faye D. Ginsburg, et al. eds. University of California Press
- Sunaina Mara and Elisabeth Soep, Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, and the Global
- Allan Sekula, "The Body and the Archive"
- Dwight Conquergood, "Ethnography, Rhetoric, and Performance," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 78, 1992 pp 80-123
- Special Issue on Disability, Identity, and Interdependence: ICTs and New Social Forms, Information, Communication & Society, Volume 9 Issue 3 2006
- Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux, eds, The Cell Phone Reader
- René Lysloff and Leslie Gay, Jr, eds, Music and Technoculture
- Mizuko Ito, "Personal Portable Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Use"
- Mizuko Ito, "Technologies of the Childhood
Imagination: Yugioh, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production,"
in Joe Karaganis and Natalie Jeremijenko Ed., Structures of Participation
in Digital Culture.
- Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe, "Technosocial
Situations: Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use" Forthcoming
in Mizuko Ito, Misa Matsuda, and Daisuke Okabe Eds., Personal, Portable
Intimate: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. MIT Press
- Daisuke Okabe, "Emergent Social Practices,
Situations and Relations through Everyday Camera Phone Use"
- Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Araba Sey, "The Mobile Communication Society : A cross-cultural analysis of available evidence on the social uses of wireless communication technologyy"
- Sherry Hs, "Digital learning and play"
A synthesis and elaboration from a CILS Bay Area Institute Roundtable
- Rafael Fajardo, " Pixels, Politics and Play:
Digital Video Games As Social Commentary"
- Natalie Jeeremejenko, "Changing
Structures of Participation in New Media Education," Share, Share
Widely
- John Seely Brown: Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age.
- Mark Wolf and Bernard Perron, eds, The Video
Game Theory Reader
- Walter Holland, Henry Jenkins, and
Kurt Squire, "Theory by Design"
- Markku Eskelinen and Ragnhild Tronstad,
"Video Games and Configurative Performances"
- Chris Crawford, "Interactive
Storytelling"
- J.L. Lemke "Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Media" http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jaylemke/reinking.htm and "Towards
Critical Multimedia Literacy: Technology, Research, and Politics" and "The
Coming Paradigm Wars in Education: Curriculum vs. Information Access."
In Cyberspace Superhighways: Access, Ethics, and Control, Proceedings of
the Fourth Conference on Computers,Freedom, and Privacy. Chicago: John Marshall
Law School. 1994. [pp.76-85]
- Jon Lanestedt, “The Challenge of Digital Learning Environments in
Higher Education,” in Digital Media Revisited
- David Buckingham et al, "The Media Literacy of Children and Young
People" A review of the research literature on behalf of Ofcom
- Bertram C. Bruce, "Literacy Technologies: What Stance Should We Take?"
- Andrew Morrison, "From Oracy to Electracies:
Hypernarrative, Place and Multimodal Dsicourses in Learning," Digital
Media Revisited
- Christian Clark, " The Indigenous Knowledge Resource Management Northern Australia Project: Garma 2004"
- Wyatt Galusky, "Identifying with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the Internet, and the Environmental Anti-Toxins Movement"
- Tiziana Terranova, "Demonstrating the Globe: Virtual Action in the Networked Society"
- Interviewing and coding:
- Robert Weiss, Learning From Strangers; The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. Ch 4
- Kathleen DeWalt and Billie DeWalt, "Informal Interviewing in Participant Observation"
- Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin, "Open Coding," Basics of Qualitative Research