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What new lines of inquiry and approaches to social research are made possible and necessary by the Internet? In what ways have established research methods been affected by the Internet? How does the Internet challenge established methods of social research? How are researchers responding to these challenges? | What new lines of inquiry and approaches to social research are made possible and necessary by the Internet? In what ways have established research methods been affected by the Internet? How does the Internet challenge established methods of social research? How are researchers responding to these challenges? | ||
These are some of the key questions we will explore in this course. The course will focus on assessing the incorporation of Internet tools in established and emergent methods of social research, the adaptation of social research methods to study online phenomena, and the development of new methods and tools that correspond with the particular capacities and characteristics of the Internet. The readings will include both descriptions of Internet-related research methods with an eye to introducing skills and examples of studies that use them. The legal and ethical aspects of Internet research will receive ongoing consideration throughout the course. The purpose of this course is to help prepare students to design high quality research projects that use the Internet to study online communicative, social, cultural, and political phenomena. | These are some of the key questions we will explore in this course. The course will focus on assessing the incorporation of Internet tools in established and emergent methods of social research, the adaptation of social research methods to study online phenomena, and the development of new methods and tools that correspond with the particular capacities and characteristics of the Internet. The readings will include both descriptions of Internet-related research methods with an eye to introducing skills and examples of studies that use them.The legal and ethical aspects of Internet research will receive ongoing consideration throughout the course. The purpose of this course is to help prepare students to design high quality research projects that use the Internet to study online communicative, social, cultural, and political phenomena. | ||
I will consider the course a complete success if every student is able to do all of these things at the end of the quarter: | I will consider the course a complete success if every student is able to do all of these things at the end of the quarter: | ||
* Discuss and compare distinct types of Internet research including: web archiving; textual analysis; ethnography; interviews; network analyses of social and hyperlink networks; analysis of digital trace data, traditional, natural, and field experiments; design research; interviewing; survey | * Discuss and compare distinct types of Internet research including: web archiving; textual analysis; ethnography; interviews; network analyses of social and hyperlink networks; analysis of digital trace data, traditional, natural, and field experiments; design research; interviewing; survey research; and narrative and visual analyses. | ||
* Describe particular challenges and threats to research validity associated with each method. | * Describe particular challenges and threats to research validity associated with each method. | ||
* For at least one method, be able to provide a detailed description of a research project and feel comfortable embarking on a formative study using this methodology. | * For at least one method, be able to provide a detailed description of a research project and feel comfortable embarking on a formative study using this methodology. | ||
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== Books == | == Books == | ||
This | This book has no textbook and I am not requiring you to buy any books for this class. That said, several required readings and many suggested readings, will come from several excellent books which you might want consider adding to your library: | ||
These books include: | These books include: | ||
# Rogers, R. (2013). [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods Digital Methods]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. | |||
# Hesse-Biber, S. N. (Ed.). (2011). [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-handbook-of-emergent-technologies-in-social-research-9780195373592 The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research] (1st edition). New York: Oxford University Press. | # Hesse-Biber, S. N. (Ed.). (2011). [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-handbook-of-emergent-technologies-in-social-research-9780195373592 The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research] (1st edition). New York: Oxford University Press. | ||
# Ackland, R. (2013). [http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book234439 Web Social Science]. SAGE Publications Ltd. | # Ackland, R. (2013). [http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book234439 Web Social Science]. SAGE Publications Ltd. | ||
# Hargittai, E., & Sandvig, C. (2015). [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-research-confidential Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online] (1 edition). The MIT Press. | # Hargittai, E., & Sandvig, C. (2015). [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-research-confidential Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online] (1 edition). The MIT Press. | ||
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Nearly all of our structured in-person meetings and all of our readings will focus on teaching conceptual skills related to Internet research. These skills involve the "softer" skills of understanding, designing, and critiquing research plans. These are harder to teach, evaluate, and learn but are ultimately what will make a research project interesting, useful, or valid. When the course has been taught in the past by other faculty, it has been entirely focused on these types of conceptual skills. | Nearly all of our structured in-person meetings and all of our readings will focus on teaching conceptual skills related to Internet research. These skills involve the "softer" skills of understanding, designing, and critiquing research plans. These are harder to teach, evaluate, and learn but are ultimately what will make a research project interesting, useful, or valid. When the course has been taught in the past by other faculty, it has been entirely focused on these types of conceptual skills. | ||
That said, I also believe that any skilled Internet researcher must be comfortable writing code to collect a dataset from the web or, at the very least, should have enough experience doing so that they know what is involved and what is possible and impossible. This is essential even if your only goals is to manage somebody else writing code and gathering data | That said, I also believe that any skilled Internet researcher must be comfortable writing code to collect a dataset from the web or, at the very least, should have enough experience doing so that they know what is involved and what is possible and impossible. This is essential even if your only goals is to manage somebody else writing code and gathering data. As a result, being successful in this class will also require technical skills. | ||
Because students are going to come to the class with different technical skillsets, we well be devoting a relatively small chunk of class time to developing technical skills. Instead, I'm requiring that students build these skills outside of | Because students are going to come to the class with different technical skillsets, we well be devoting a relatively small chunk of class time to developing technical skills. Instead, I'm requiring that students build these skills outside of the class if they do not have them already. | ||
In particular, I want every student to have the following three things: | In particular, I want every student to have the following three things: | ||
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If you are already comfortable doing these things, great. | If you are already comfortable doing these things, great. | ||
If you are not yet comfortable, I am going to be organizing three free workshops called the [[Community Data Science Workshops]] on Saturdays in April and May and I extremely strongly recommend that you attend them. The workshops will teach exactly the skills I'm expecting you to have and attending the | If you are not yet comfortable, I am going to be organizing three free workshops called the [[Community Data Science Workshops]] on Saturdays in April and May and I extremely strongly recommend that you attend them. The workshops will teach exactly the skills I'm expecting you to have and attending the workshops will be enough to fulfill this requirement. | ||
The workshops will meet four times so please block these out on your calendar now: | The workshops will meet four times so please block these out on your calendar now: | ||
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# Saturday 5/7 9:45am-4pm | # Saturday 5/7 9:45am-4pm | ||
'''You must register for these workshops immediately.''' You can find the registration link [[CDSW Spring 2016|on this page]]. Please mention that you are in this class when you register so that we make sure that you accept your application. | |||
I have taught these workshops four times before in 2014 and 2015. If you have taken them in the past, you do not need to take them again. If you took them before but are feeling unsure about your skills, you will be welcome to come back to review and brush up on the material. | I have taught these workshops four times before in 2014 and 2015. If you have taken them in the past, you do not need to take them again. If you took them before but are feeling unsure about your skills, you will be welcome to come back to review and brush up on the material. | ||
If you do not have the technical skills required above and you will not attend the workshops, you're going to be responsible for learning this material on your own | If you do not have the technical skills required above and you will not attend the workshops, you're going to be responsible for learning this material on your own and this will likely present a challenge. If you will be in this situation, contact me before the quarter starts. | ||
== Assignments == | == Assignments == | ||
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==== Wikipedia Task #1 - Create an account and Wikipedia orientation ==== | ==== Wikipedia Task #1 - Create an account and Wikipedia orientation ==== | ||
;Due: April | ;Due: April 3 | ||
;Deliverables: Make contributions in Wikipedia | ;Deliverables: Make contributions in Wikipedia | ||
* Finish the | * Finish the online student orientation for our Wikipedia course. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of the Wikipedia community. | ||
* Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course | * Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page. | ||
* To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to me and at least one classmate on Wikipedia. | * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to me and at least one classmate on Wikipedia. | ||
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=== Week 1: Wednesday March 30: Ethics === | === Week 1: Wednesday March 30: Ethics === | ||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* Association of Internet Researchers, Ethics Working Committee, 2011, “[http://aoirethics.ijire.net/ | * Association of Internet Researchers, Ethics Working Committee, 2011, “[http://aoirethics.ijire.net/ Ethics Guidelines Review Draft].” ''[Free Online]'' | ||
* Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). [http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks.] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8788–8790. ''[Available through UW Libraries]'' | * Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). [http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks.] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8788–8790. ''[Available through UW Libraries]'' | ||
* [Look Over Briefly] Grimmelmann, James. (2014) [http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/30/the_facebook_emotional_manipulation_study_source The Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study: Sources]. ''[Free Online]'' | * [Look Over Briefly] Grimmelmann, James. (2014) [http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/30/the_facebook_emotional_manipulation_study_source The Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study: Sources]. ''[Free Online]'' | ||
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* Bernstein, M. (2014, July 7). [https://medium.com/@msbernst/the-destructive-silence-of-social-computing-researchers-9155cdff659 The Destructive Silence of Social Computing Researchers]. Retrieved March 26, 2015. ''[Free Online]'' | * Bernstein, M. (2014, July 7). [https://medium.com/@msbernst/the-destructive-silence-of-social-computing-researchers-9155cdff659 The Destructive Silence of Social Computing Researchers]. Retrieved March 26, 2015. ''[Free Online]'' | ||
* Lampe, C. (2014, July 8). [http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/08/facebook-is-good-for-science/ Facebook Is Good for Science]. ''[Free Online]'' | * Lampe, C. (2014, July 8). [http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/08/facebook-is-good-for-science/ Facebook Is Good for Science]. ''[Free Online]'' | ||
'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
* [http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html The Belmont Report]. (1979). | * [http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html The Belmont Report]. (1979). | ||
* American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999, “[http://www.aaas.org/page/ethical-and-legal-aspects-human-subjects-research-cyberspace Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace].” | * American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999, “[http://www.aaas.org/page/ethical-and-legal-aspects-human-subjects-research-cyberspace Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace].” [Free Online] | ||
* [http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf Digital Millenium Copyright Act] and these explanatory/commentary essays & sites: | * [http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf Digital Millenium Copyright Act] and these explanatory/commentary essays & sites: | ||
** The [https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation's] [https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca page on the DMCA]. | ** The [https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation's] [https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca page on the DMCA]. | ||
** Templeton, Brad's [http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html A Brief Intro to Copyright] & [http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained] | ** Templeton, Brad's [http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html A Brief Intro to Copyright] & [http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained] | ||
** Sections on Copyright, Privacy, and Social Media in the “Internet Case Digest” of the [http://www.perkinscoie.com/casedigest/ Perkins Coie LLP “Case Digest” site]. | ** Sections on Copyright, Privacy, and Social Media in the “Internet Case Digest” of the [http://www.perkinscoie.com/casedigest/ Perkins Coie LLP “Case Digest” site]. | ||
=== Week 2: Monday April 4: NO CLASS === | === Week 2: Monday April 4: NO CLASS === | ||
=== Week 2: Wednesday April 6: Web Archiving === | === Week 2: Wednesday April 6: Web Archiving === | ||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* | * Bruegger, Niels, "Web archiving — Between past, present, and future," in Consalvo & * Ess, The Handbook of Internet Studies, Blackwell, pp. 24-42. [Available in Canvas] | ||
* Weber, M. S. (2014). Observing the Web by Understanding the Past: Archival Internet Research. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (pp. 1031–1036). Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* | * Rogers, Richard, Chapter 3 "The Website as Archived Object" from Digital Methods, pp. 61-82. [Available through Canvas] | ||
* Rogers, Richard, Chapter 3 " | |||
'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
* Gherab-Martin, Karim, " | * Schneider, Steven, Kirsten Foot, and Paul Wouters, 2009, “Web Archiving as E-Research,” in e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice, Nicholas Jankowski (Ed.), Routledge, pp. 205-221. [Available in Canvas] | ||
* Vargo, C. J., Guo, L., McCombs, M., & Shaw, D. L. (2014). Network Issue Agendas on Twitter During the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. Journal of Communication, 64(2), 296–316. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* boyd, danah, and Kate Crawford, (2012) "Critical Questions for Big Data," Information, Communication, & Society, May. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Gherab-Martin, Karim, "Digital repositories, folksonomies, and interdisciplinary research: New social epistemology tools," Ch. 10 in HET. [Available in Canvas] | |||
* [https://www.digitalmethods.net/Digitalmethods/TheSpheres Digital Methods Initiative]. (2009). The Spheres. ''[Free Online]'' | * [https://www.digitalmethods.net/Digitalmethods/TheSpheres Digital Methods Initiative]. (2009). The Spheres. ''[Free Online]'' | ||
* Rogers, Richard, Chapter 4 " | * Rogers, Richard, Chapter 4 "Googlication and the Inculpable Search Engine" from Digital Methods. | ||
=== Week 2: Friday April 8: CDSW Session 0 === | === Week 2: Friday April 8: CDSW Session 0 === | ||
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=== Week 3: Monday April 11: Textual Analyses === | === Week 3: Monday April 11: Textual Analyses === | ||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* McMillan, S. J. (2000). | * McMillan, S. J. (2000). The microscope and the moving target: The challenge of applying content analysis to the World Wide Web. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77(1), 80-98. [Available in Canvas] | ||
* Mishne, Gilad and Natalie Glance (2006), | * Van Selm, Martine & Jankowski, Nick, (2005) "Content Analysis of Internet-Based Documents." Unpublished Manuscript. [Available in Canvas] | ||
* Grimmer, J., & Stewart, B. M. (2013). | * Mishne, Gilad and Natalie Glance (2006), “Leave a reply: An analysis of weblog comments” Third Annual Conference on the Weblogging Ecosystem, at WWW 2006. [Free Online] | ||
* | * Grimmer, J., & Stewart, B. M. (2013). Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts. Political Analysis, mps028. [Available through UW Libraries] | ||
* Barberá, P., Bonneau, R., Egan, P., Jost, J. T., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J. (2014). Leaders or Followers? Measuring Political Responsiveness in the US Congress Using Social Media Data. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. [Free Online] | |||
'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
* Baab, Lynne (2008), "Portraits of the Future Church: A Rhetorical Analysis of Congregational Websites," Journal of Communication and Religion, 31:123-141. [Free Online] | |||
: Note: Lynne did her PhD in the UW Communication Dept, and this article is based on one of the chapters from her dissertation. She developed the initial research design for this study as a student in this course.] | |||
* Honeycutt, Courtenay (2005), “Hazing as a process of boundary maintenance in an online community”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2). [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
:Note: Combines quantitative and qualitative computer-mediated discourse analysis methods.* | |||
* Trammell, Kaye, et al. (2006), "Rzeczpospolita blogów [Republic of Blog]: Examining Polish Bloggers Through Content Analysis," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 2. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Woolley, Julia K., Anthony M. Limperos & Mary Beth Oliver (2010), "The 2008 Presidential Election, 2.0: A Content Analysis of User-Generated Political Facebook Groups," Mass Communication and Society, 13:5, 631-652. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Rogers, Richard, Chapter 8 "Wikipedia as Cultural Reference" from Digital Methods, pp. 165-202. | |||
=== Week 3: Wednesday April 13: Crowdsourced Data Analysis === | |||
'''Assignment:''' | |||
* | * Find and complete at least 2 "hits" as a worker on Amazon Mechnical Turk. | ||
* | * Forthcoming assignment on running your own hit on AMT. I'm currently waiting for details from a collaborator who used a similar assignment similar in the past. | ||
'''Required Readings:''' | |||
* | * Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester UI Guide (pp. 1-15). [Free Online] | ||
* Amazon Mechanical Turk Best Practices Guide. [Free Online] | |||
* Weinberg, J., Freese, J., & McElhattan, D. (2014). Comparing Data Characteristics and Results of an Online Factorial Survey between a Population-Based and a Crowdsource-Recruited Sample. Sociological Science, 1, 292–310. [Free Online] | |||
* Shaw, A. (2015). Hired Hands and Dubious Guesses: Adventures in Crowdsourced Data Collection. In E. Hargittai & C. Sandvig (Eds.), Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online. The MIT Press. [Available in Canvas] | |||
=== Week | === Week 4: Monday April 18: Digital Ethnography & Trace Ethnography === | ||
''' | '''Required Readings:'''' | ||
' | * Murthy, Dhiraj, "Emergent digital ethnographic methods for social research," Ch. 7 in HET. [Available in Canvas] | ||
* Robinson, Laura and Jeremy Schulz, "New fieldsites, new methods: New ethnographic opportunities," Ch. 8 in HET. [Available in Canvas] | |||
* Geiger, R. S. and Ribes, D. (2011), "Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination through Documentary Practices," Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. [Available in Canvas] | |||
* Response by danah boyd To Hine's "Question One: How Can Qualitative Internet Researchers Define the Boundaries of Their Projects?" from Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method, Annette Markham and Nancy Baym (Eds.), Sage, 2009, pp. 1-32. [Available in Canvas] | |||
:Note: You may also be interest in reading the essay by Hine that boyd is responding to. [Available in Canvas] | |||
* [Selections] Jemielniak, D. (2014). Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. "Introduction" and "Appendix A: Methodology." [Available in Canvas] | |||
'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
* | * Paccagnella, Luciano (1997), “Getting the Seat of Your Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3(1), June. [Available through UW Libraries] | ||
: Note: This is one of the early academic articles about online participant observation; I recommend it to those who want to read some early pointers. | |||
:Note: | * Humphreys, L. 2007. Mobile social networks and social practice: A case study of dodgeball. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (13) 1. [Available through UW Libraries] | ||
This is the | |||
* Humphreys, L | |||
: Note: Dodgeball is a mobile social network system (MSNS) that allows groups of friends to connect and meet up via mobile phone. The author employed participant observation in order to understand norms of interaction in the MSNS "space". | : Note: Dodgeball is a mobile social network system (MSNS) that allows groups of friends to connect and meet up via mobile phone. The author employed participant observation in order to understand norms of interaction in the MSNS "space". | ||
* Brotsky, | * Brotsky, Sarah R. and David Giles. 2007. “Inside the ‘Pro-Ana’ Community: A Covert Participation Observation.” Eating Disorders: pro The Journal of Treatment & Prevention 15(2): 93-109 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10640260701190600) | ||
:Note: To conduct the study reported in this paper the authors created a used a fake profile in order to observe the psychological support offered to participants. | :Note: To conduct the study reported in this paper the authors created a used a fake profile in order to observe the psychological support offered to participants. | ||
* | * Beaulieu, Anne, and Mette Terp Hoybye, "Studying mailing lists: Text, temporality, interaction, and materiality at the intersection of e-mail and the web," Ch. 11 in HET. [Available in Canvas] | ||
: Note: Fantastic more general introduction but takeaways that are more specifically targetted toward people studying virtual reality type environments with virtual | * Williams, Matthew. 2007. “Avatar Watching: Participant Observation in Graphical Environments.” Qualitative Research 7(1): 5-24. [Available through UW Libraries] | ||
: Note: Fantastic more general introduction but takeaways that are more specifically targetted toward people studying virtual reality type environments with virtual [hysicality. | |||
* Coleman, E. G. (2010). Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of Anthropology, 39(1), 487–505. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
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=== Week 4: Wednesday April 20: Online Interviews === | |||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* | * Markham, Annette (1998), "The Shifting Project, the Shifting Self," from Life Online, Altamira Press, 1998, pp. 61-84. [Available in Canvas] | ||
: Note: One of the earliest books on online life and one of the earliest attempts to do online interviewing. This is dated, but highlight some important challenge. | |||
* Hanna, P. (2012). | * Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2003), "Depth Interviews for the Study of Motives and Perceptions of Internet Use," International Communication Association, San Diego, May. [Available in Canvas] | ||
: Note: Start reading on page 8 on "The Internet and the Interview". The beginning is a theoretical argument that's not really relevant to this class. | |||
* Hanna, P. (2012). Using internet technologies (such as Skype) as a research medium: a research note. Qualitative Research, 12(2), 239-242. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
: Note: Short article you can basically skim. Read it quickly so you can cite it later. | : Note: Short article you can basically skim. Read it quickly so you can cite it later. | ||
* | * Morgan, David L. and Bojana Lobe, "Online focus groups," Ch. 9 in HET. [Available in Canvas] | ||
'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
* | * Salmons, J. (2014). Qualitative Online Interviews: Strategies, Design, and Skills. SAGE Publications. [Publisher Page] | ||
: Note: Strongly focused on enthnographic interviews with tons of very specific details. Fantastic article on interviewing, | * danah boyd. (Forthcoming). “Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era.” In Hargittai, E. & Sandvig, C. (Eds.) Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Available in Canvas] | ||
: Note: Strongly focused on enthnographic interviews with tons of very specific details. Fantastic article on interviewing, but a bit weak on Internet specific advice. | |||
* Chou, C. (2001). Internet heavy use and addiction among Taiwanese college students: an online interview study. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 4(5), 573-585. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
=== Week 4: Saturday April 23: CDSW Session 2 === | === Week 4: Saturday April 23: CDSW Session 2 === | ||
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This session will run from 10am-4pm. Details on the [[CDSW Spring 2016]] page. | This session will run from 10am-4pm. Details on the [[CDSW Spring 2016]] page. | ||
=== Week 5: Monday April 25: | === Week 5: Monday April 25: Social Network Analysis === | ||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* | * Garton, Laura, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman, "Studying Online Social Networks," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V. 3, N. 1, June, 1997. [Free Online] | ||
* Howard, Phil, "Network Ethnography and Hypermedia Organization: New Organizations, New Media, New Myths," New Media and Society, December 2002, 4(4), pp. 550-574. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Mislove, Alan, et al (2007), "Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks," IMC 2007, October 24-27, San Diego, CA [Available Through UW Libraries] | |||
* Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2013). Hot Off the Wiki Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(5), 595–622. [Free Online] | |||
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=== Week 5: Wednesday April 27: Surveys === | === Week 5: Wednesday April 27: Surveys === | ||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* Van Selm, Martine & Nicholas Jankowski (2006), " | * Van Selm, Martine & Nicholas Jankowski (2006), "Conducting Online Surveys," Quality and Quantity, 40: 435-456. [Available through UW Libraries] | ||
* Walejko, Gina, " | * Walejko, Gina, "Online survey: Instant publication, instant mistake, all of the above," from Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Research Scientists Pretend They Never Have, University of Michigan Press, 2009, pp. 101-121.sk [Available in Canvas] | ||
* Joseph A. Konstan, B. R. Simon Rosser, Michael W. Ross, Jeffrey Stanton, & Weston M. Edwards, | * Joseph A. Konstan, B. R. Simon Rosser, Michael W. Ross, Jeffrey Stanton, & Weston M. Edwards, “The Story of Subject Naught: A Cautionary but Optimistic Tale of Internet Survey Research” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V.10, N. 2, January 2005. [Free Online] | ||
* Hill, B. M., & Shaw, A. (2013). | * Hill, B. M., & Shaw, A. (2013). The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e65782. [Free Online] | ||
* Salganik, M. J., & Levy, K. E. C. ( | * Salganik, M. J., & Levy, K. E. C. (2012). Wiki surveys: Open and quantifiable social data collection. arXiv:1202.0500 [cs, Stat]. [Free Online] | ||
: Note: | : Note: This journalistic account of the research may also be useful. | ||
'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
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If you don't have a background in survey design, these two have been recommended by our guest speaker as good basic things to read: | If you don't have a background in survey design, these two have been recommended by our guest speaker as good basic things to read: | ||
* Krosnick, J. A. (1999). | * Krosnick, J. A. (1999).Survey research. Annual Review of Psychology 50, 537-567. [Free Online] | ||
* Krosnick, J. A. (1999). Maximizing measurement quality: Principles of good questionnaire design. In J. P. Robinson, P. R. Shaver, & L. S. Wrightsman (Eds.), Measures of | * Krosnick, J. A. (1999).Maximizing measurement quality: Principles of good questionnaire design . In J. P. Robinson, P. R. Shaver, & L. S. Wrightsman (Eds.), Measures of political attitudes. New York: Academic Press. [Free Online] | ||
These are other texts on the subjct that you might find useul: | |||
* Dal, Michael, "Online data collection and data analysis using emergent technologies," Ch. 12 in HET. | |||
* Smith, Tom W. and John Sokolowski, "The use of audiovisuals in surveys," Ch. 19 in HET. | |||
* Kellock, Anne, et. al. "Using technology and the experience sampling method to understand real life," Ch. 24 from HET. | |||
* Yun, Gi Woong and Craig Trumbo, "Comparative Response to a Survey Executed by Post, E-mail and Web Form," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V.6, N.1, September, 2000. | |||
* Hargittai, Eszter, and Chris Karr, "WAT R U DOIN? Studying the Thumb Generation Using Text Messaging," from Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Research Scientists Pretend They Never Have, University of Michigan Press, 2009, pp. 192-216. [Available in Canvas] | |||
* Wright, Kevin, "Researching Internet-Based Populations: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Survey Research, Online Questionnaire Authoring Software Packages, and Web Survey Services," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V. 10, N. 3, April 2005. [Free Online] | |||
=== Week 6: Monday May 2: Online "Lab" Experiments === | |||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* Hergueux, J., & Jacquemet, N. (2014). Social preferences in the online laboratory: a randomized experiment. Experimental Economics, 18(2), 251–283. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Salganik, M. J., Dodds, P. S., & Watts, D. J. (2006). Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market. Science, 311(5762), 854–856. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* | * Restivo, M., & van de Rijt, A. (2012). Experimental Study of Informal Rewards in Peer Production. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e34358. [Free Online] | ||
* | * Bond, R. M., Fariss, C. J., Jones, J. J., Kramer, A. D. I., Marlow, C., Settle, J. E., & Fowler, J. H. (2012). A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization. Nature, 489(7415), 295–298. [Available through UW Libraries] | ||
* Cosley, D., Frankowski, D., Terveen, L., & Riedl, J. (2007). SuggestBot: Using Intelligent Task Routing to Help People Find Work in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 32–41). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8788–8790. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
: Note: We've already read but I'd like to discuss it again. | |||
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'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
* Zhu, H., Zhang, A., He, J., Kraut, R., & Kittur, A. (2013). Effects of Peer Feedback on Contribution: A Field Experiment in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paris, France: ACM. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Restivo, M., & van de Rijt, A. (0). No praise without effort: experimental evidence on how rewards affect Wikipedia’s contributor community. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0), 1–12. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* | : Note: This piece is, more or less, a continuation of the Restivo and van de Rijt piece included above but it is longer and goes into much more depth on at least one of the important theoretical issues. | ||
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=== Week 6: Wednesday May 4: Field Experiments === | |||
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=== Week 6: Saturday May 7: CDSW Session 3 === | === Week 6: Saturday May 7: CDSW Session 3 === | ||
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This session will run from 9am-3pm. Details on the [[CDSW Spring 2016]] page. | This session will run from 9am-3pm. Details on the [[CDSW Spring 2016]] page. | ||
=== Week 7: Monday May 9: Consulting Week | === Week 7: Monday May 9: NO CLASS (Consulting Week) === | ||
During this week, we not meet together. Instead, I will schedule one-on-one in person meetings of an hour with each student individually to catch up with | During this week, we not meet together. Instead, I will schedule one-on-one in person meetings of at least half an hour with each student individually to catch up with about your project and to work directly with you to resolve any technical issues you have run into with data collection, etc. | ||
=== Week 7: Wednesday May 11: Consulting Week | === Week 7: Wednesday May 11: NO CLASS (Consulting Week) === | ||
=== Week 8: Monday May 16: Sensor Data === | |||
'''Required Readings:''' | |||
Read any 2 of these 4 HET chapters: | |||
* Eagle, Nathan, "Mobile phones as sensors for social research," Ch. 22 in HET. | |||
* Visser, Albertine and Ingrid Mulder, "Emergent technologies for assessing social feelings and experiences," Ch. 16 in HET. | |||
* de Haan, Geert, et. al., "Bringing the research lab into everyday life: Exploiting sensitive environments to acquire data for social research," Ch. 23 in HET. | |||
* Fowler, Chris, et. al., "Living laboratories: Social research applications and evaluations," Ch. 27 in HET. | |||
* Holohan, Anne, et. al., "The digital home: A new locus of social science research," Ch. 28 in HET. | |||
=== Week | === Week 8: Wednesday May 18: Visual Analysis === | ||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* | * Newbold, Curtis, 2013, "How to Do a Visual Analysis (A 5-Step Process)". [Free Online] | ||
: Note: Although I'm not a fan of infograpraphics as a genre, I suppose it makes sense that visual communication people would put together a pretty good one! If you're already familiar with visual analysis from the rhetorical tradition, there's not going to be a lot new here. If this is new for you, this will help you frame and understand the other readings. | |||
* | * Baab, L. M. (2008). Portraits of the future church: A rhetorical analysis of congregational websites. Journal of Communication and Religion, 31(2), 143–181. [Free Online] | ||
: Note: Lynne did her PhD in the UW Communication Deptartment, and this article is based on one of the chapters from her dissertation. She developed the initial research design for this study as a student in an earlier version of this course. | |||
* Hochman, N., & Schwartz, R. (2012). Visualizing Instagram: Tracing Cultural Visual Rhythms. In Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Hochman, N., & Manovich, L. (2013). Zooming into an Instagram City: Reading the local through social media. First Monday, 18(7). [Free Online] | |||
'''Optional Readings:''' | |||
* Torralba, A. (2009). Understanding Visual Scenes. Tutorial presented at the NIPS, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Part I. [Free Online] | |||
: Note: This is a two part (each part is one hour) lecture and tutorial by a expert in computer vision. I strongly recommend watching Part I. I think this gives you a good sense of the nature of the kinds of challenges that were (and still are) facing the field of computer vision and anybody trying to have their computer look at images. | |||
'' | These five paper are all technical approaches to doing image classification using datasets from Internet-based datasets of images like Flickr, Google Image Search, Google Street View, or Instagram. Each of these describes interesting and challenges technical issues. If you're interested, it would be a great idea to read these to get a sense for the state of the art and what is and isn't possible: | ||
* Jaffe, A., Naaman, M., Tassa, T., & Davis, M. (2006). Generating Summaries and Visualization for Large Collections of Geo-referenced Photographs. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (pp. 89–98). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Simon, I., Snavely, N., & Seitz, S. M. (2007). Scene Summarization for Online Image Collections. In Computer Vision, IEEE International Conference on (Vol. 0, pp. 1–8). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society. [Free Online] | |||
* Crandall, D. J., Backstrom, L., Huttenlocher, D., & Kleinberg, J. (2009). Mapping the World’s Photos. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 761–770). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* San Pedro, J., & Siersdorfer, S. (2009). Ranking and Classifying Attractiveness of Photos in Folksonomies. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 771–780). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Doersch, C., Singh, S., Gupta, A., Sivic, J., & Efros, A. A. (2012). What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? ACM Trans. Graph., 31(4), 101:1–101:9. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
=== Week 9: Monday May 23: Narrative Analysis === | |||
* Mitra, Ananda, "Characteristics of the WWW Text: Tracing Discursive Strategies," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V.5, N. 1, September, 1999. [Free Online] | |||
* Kaun, Anne (2010), "Open-Ended Online Diaries: Capturing Life as it is Narrated," International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p133-148. [Available through UW Libraries] | |||
* Gubrium, Aline and K.C. Nat Turner, "Digital storytelling as an emergent method for social research and practice," Ch. 21 in HET. | |||
=== | === Week 9: Wednesday May 25: Hyperlink Networks === | ||
* Jackson, Michele, (1997), "Assessing the Structure of the Communication on the World Wide Web," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V. 3, N. 1, June, 1997. | * Jackson, Michele, (1997), "Assessing the Structure of the Communication on the World Wide Web," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V. 3, N. 1, June, 1997. | ||
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* Olesen, Thomas (2004), "The Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network: An Infrastructure Analysis," Global Networks, 4(1):89-107 [Although this article uses the term infrastructure analysis, the method employed is best described as a hyperlink network analysis.] | * Olesen, Thomas (2004), "The Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network: An Infrastructure Analysis," Global Networks, 4(1):89-107 [Although this article uses the term infrastructure analysis, the method employed is best described as a hyperlink network analysis.] | ||
=== Week 10: Monday May 30: Final Presentations === | |||
=== Week 10: Wednesday June 1: Final Presentations === | |||
== Administrative Notes == | == Administrative Notes == | ||
=== Attendance === | === Attendance === |