Editing Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023) (section)

=== Week 2: 9.27 ===

[[Introduction_to_Graduate_Research_(Fall_2023)Week2|Session plan]]

'''Challenge: What do you work on?''' Finding and framing research questions, puzzles, problems, and challenges

'''Guests:''' 
* Duri Long ([https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/17227307/download?download_frd=1 CV])
* Jeremy Birnholtz ([https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/17227715/download?download_frd=1 CV])

==== Readings ====
* Abbott, Andrew. 2004. ''[https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/17168697/download?download_frd=1 Methods of Discovery]'', W.W. Norton, NY. We will talk about [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/17168699/download?download_frd=1 Chapter 7 (Ideas and Puzzles)], pp 211-248.
* Birnholtz, J., Rawat, S., Vashista, R., Baruah, D., Dange, A., & Boyer, A.-M. 2020. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120913995 Layers of Marginality: An Exploration of Visibility, Impressions, and Cultural Context on Geospatial Apps for Men Who Have Sex With Men in Mumbai, India]. ''Social Media + Society'', 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120913995
* Durkheim, Émile. 1897. ''Suicide''. Excerpt — final section of the Introduction ([https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/17227843/download?download_frd=1 available via Canvas]).
* Long, Duri, Anthony Teachey, and Brian Magerko. 2022. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3502091 Family Learning Talk in AI Literacy Learning Activities]. In ''Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22)''. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 226, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502091

==== Recommended readings ====
* Gaver, William. 2012. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2207676.2208538 What should we expect from research through design?] In ''Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12)''. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 937–946. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208538 (''Long influence'')
* Simon, Herbert. 1996. ''The Sciences of the Artificial'' (3rd edition). Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. (''Birnholtz influence'')

==== Written work and activities ====

'''1. Submit a discussion provocation''' [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/196467/discussion_topics/ via Canvas] (by 6pm on Monday 9/25).

'''2. Research puzzle:''' Draft a paragraph that presents a research idea, project, or interest of yours as a puzzle. Submit it [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/196467/assignments/1299734 via Canvas] (by 6pm on Monday 9/25) and please also print a copy of it and bring it with you to class.