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== | ===DRG Description=== | ||
The Covid-19 pandemic has required us to navigate a challenging information landscape. How have our institutions responded, and how have people made sense of the information provided to them? What role have search platforms played in shaping this terrain? | The Covid-19 pandemic has required us to navigate a challenging information landscape. How have our institutions responded, and how have people made sense of the information provided to them? What role have search platforms played in shaping this terrain? | ||
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As a DRG member, you are joining an active research project, and you are expected to learn both through information presented to you as well as through your own initiative. What you get out of this project will match what you put into it. Communication is essential to keep our collaboration smooth, and your commitment to doing good quality work is essential. We are trying to develop knowledge that will be useful to the public, and that means holding ourselves to maximum standards of accuracy and ethics. Be honest and open about what you do and always do your best: life happens to all of us and we live in interesting times. Work that's a little late is understandable especially if you communicate early and often, but work that's not your best effort can't be accepted. | As a DRG member, you are joining an active research project, and you are expected to learn both through information presented to you as well as through your own initiative. What you get out of this project will match what you put into it. Communication is essential to keep our collaboration smooth, and your commitment to doing good quality work is essential. We are trying to develop knowledge that will be useful to the public, and that means holding ourselves to maximum standards of accuracy and ethics. Be honest and open about what you do and always do your best: life happens to all of us and we live in interesting times. Work that's a little late is understandable especially if you communicate early and often, but work that's not your best effort can't be accepted. | ||
= | ===DRG Schedule=== | ||
==DRG Schedule== | |||
====Week 1: ==== | ====Week 1: ==== | ||
Key Question: Who are we, what are we trying to do, and how are we going to go about it? | Key Question: Who are we, what are we trying to do, and how are we going to go about it? | ||
'''Preparation''' | '''Preparation''' | ||
* Read | * Read pp. 40-60 of Neuendorf | ||
'''Meeting Agenda''' | '''Meeting Agenda''' | ||
* Introductions | * Introductions | ||
* Scope Review | * Scope Review | ||
* Tour and Overview of the Data | * Tour and Overview of the Data | ||
* Content Analysis: What is it? | |||
* Commitments and communication | |||
'''After-Meeting To-Do Items''' | '''After-Meeting To-Do Items''' | ||
* Read | * Read the project outline. | ||
* Think of at least one question you have about what we're planning to do, and ask it. | |||
* | |||
====Week 2:==== | ====Week 2:==== | ||
Key | Key Question: What are your initial impressions? How can we turn those initial impressions into knowledge? | ||
'''Meeting Agenda''' | '''Meeting Agenda''' | ||
* Your sample: what trends did you see? | * Proposal review: what's missing, confusing, or wrong? | ||
* | * Your sample: what trends did you see in this series of top searches? | ||
* Next sample: Time machine of top trends | |||
'''After-Meeting Follow-Up''' | '''After-Meeting Follow-Up''' | ||
* Visit each item in your sample. Are the results what you expected? | |||
* | * Read Neuendorff, pp. 62-73, 106-134 | ||
* | |||
====Week 3:==== | ====Week 3:==== | ||
Key Question: What | Key Question: What is Open Coding and How Will We Do It? | ||
'''Meeting Agenda''' | '''Meeting Agenda''' | ||
* Research Protocol | * | ||
* Content Analysis | |||
* Research Protocol | |||
* Trial Run | |||
'''After-Meeting Follow-Up''' | '''After-Meeting Follow-Up''' | ||
* | * Read Neuendorff p. 139-166. | ||
* First round open coding | |||
====Week 4:==== | ====Week 4:==== | ||
Key Question: Is | Key Question: Is our approach working? How might we adjust our protocol based on what we're seeing in the data? | ||
'''Meeting Agenda''' | '''Meeting Agenda''' | ||
* Discuss your experience coding data | * Discuss your experience coding data | ||
* Discuss our agreement levels so far | * Discuss our agreement levels so far | ||
* | * Plan next steps | ||
'''Follow-up Items''' | '''Follow-up Items''' | ||
* Read Neuendorff p.169-206 | * Read Neuendorff p.169-206 | ||
====Week | ====Week 5:==== | ||
'''Continue Content Analysis''' | |||
'''Follow-Up Items''' | '''Follow-Up Items''' | ||
* Read Neuendorff p. 221-230, 234-248 (through just the first paragraph) | * Read Neuendorff p. 221-230, 234-248 (through just the first paragraph) | ||
====Week 6:==== | |||
'''Continue Content Analysis''' | |||
====Week 7:==== | |||
'''Continue Content Analysis; Begin Data Analysis''' | |||
====Week 8:==== | |||
'''Continue Data Analysis''' | |||
====Week 9:==== | |||
'''Finalize Analysis and Write Up Progress''' | |||
====Week 10:==== | ====Week 10:==== | ||
'''Complete Writing | '''Complete Writing Tasks''' | ||
====Finals Week:==== | ====Finals Week:==== | ||
*Revision Task | *Revision Task | ||
*Dissemination Task | *Dissemination Task |