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* Schneider, Steven, Kirsten Foot, and Paul Wouters, 2009, “[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35982270/download?download_frd=1 Web Archiving as E-Research],” in e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice, Nicholas Jankowski (Ed.), Routledge, pp. 205-221. ''[Available in Canvas]'' | * Schneider, Steven, Kirsten Foot, and Paul Wouters, 2009, “[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35982270/download?download_frd=1 Web Archiving as E-Research],” in e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice, Nicholas Jankowski (Ed.), Routledge, pp. 205-221. ''[Available in Canvas]'' | ||
* Brügger, N. (2011). [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35981768/download?download_frd=1 Web archiving—Between past, present, and future.] In M. Consalvo & C. Ess (Eds.), The Handbook of Internet Studies (pp. 24–42). Chichester, West Susssex: Blackwell. ''[Available in Canvas]'' | * Brügger, N. (2011). [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35981768/download?download_frd=1 Web archiving—Between past, present, and future.] In M. Consalvo & C. Ess (Eds.), The Handbook of Internet Studies (pp. 24–42). Chichester, West Susssex: Blackwell. ''[Available in Canvas]'' | ||
* Rogers, Richard, Chapter 3 "[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35982101/download?download_frd=1 The Website as Archived Object]" from Digital Methods, pp. 61-82. ''[Available through Canvas]'' | * Rogers, Richard, Chapter 3 "[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35982101/download?download_frd=1 The Website as Archived Object]" from Digital Methods, pp. 61-82. ''[Available through Canvas]'' | ||
* Graeff, E., Stempeck, M., & Zuckerman, E. (2014). [http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4947 The battle for “Trayvon Martin”: Mapping a media controversy online and off-line.] First Monday, 19(2). ''[Free Online]'' | * Graeff, E., Stempeck, M., & Zuckerman, E. (2014). [http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4947 The battle for “Trayvon Martin”: Mapping a media controversy online and off-line.] First Monday, 19(2). ''[Free Online]'' | ||
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* Williams, M. (2007). [http://doi.org/10.1177/1468794107071408 Avatar watching: participant observation in graphical online environments.] Qualitative Research, 7(1), 5–24. ''[Available through UW Libraries]'' | * Williams, M. (2007). [http://doi.org/10.1177/1468794107071408 Avatar watching: participant observation in graphical online 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 physicality. | : Note: Fantastic more general introduction but takeaways that are more specifically targetted toward people studying virtual reality type environments with virtual physicality. | ||
=== Week 4: Monday April 18: Online Interviews === | === Week 4: Monday April 18: Online Interviews === | ||
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* Garton, Laura, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman, "[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1997.tb00062.x/abstract Studying Online Social Networks]," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V. 3, N. 1, June, 1997. ''[Free Online]'' | * Garton, Laura, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman, "[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1997.tb00062.x/abstract Studying Online Social Networks]," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, V. 3, N. 1, June, 1997. ''[Free Online]'' | ||
* Mislove, Alan, et al (2007), "[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298311 Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks]," IMC 2007, October 24-27, San Diego, CA ''[Available through UW Libraries]'' | * Mislove, Alan, et al (2007), "[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298311 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). [http://abs.sagepub.com/content/57/5/595 Hot Off the Wiki Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events.] American Behavioral Scientist, 57(5), 595–622. ''[Available through UW Libraries]'' | |||
'''Optional Readings:''' | |||
* Howard, Phil, "[http://nms.sagepub.com/content/4/4/550.short 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]'' | * Howard, Phil, "[http://nms.sagepub.com/content/4/4/550.short 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]'' | ||
=== Week 4: Saturday April 23: CDSW Session 2 === | === Week 4: Saturday April 23: CDSW Session 2 === | ||
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'''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] | |||
* Hergueux, J., & Jacquemet, N. (2014). | * 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] | ||
* Salganik, M. J., Dodds, P. S., & Watts, D. J. (2006). | * 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] | ||
* Bond, R. M., Fariss, C. J., Jones, J. J., Kramer, A. D. I., Marlow, C., Settle, J. E., & Fowler, J. H. (2012). | * 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. | |||
'''Optional Readings:''' | '''Optional Readings:''' | ||
* Zhu, H., Zhang, A., He, J., Kraut, R., & Kittur, A. (2013). | * 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] | |||
* Restivo, M., & van de Rijt, A. (0). | |||
: 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. | : 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. | ||
=== Week 5: Wednesday April 27: Surveys === | === Week 5: Wednesday April 27: Surveys === | ||
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'''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 | These are other texts on the subjct that you might find useul: | ||
* Dal, Michael, " | * Dal, Michael, "Online data collection and data analysis using emergent technologies," Ch. 12 in HET. | ||
* Smith, Tom W. and John Sokolowski, " | * Smith, Tom W. and John Sokolowski, "The use of audiovisuals in surveys," Ch. 19 in HET. | ||
* Kellock, Anne, et. al. " | * 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, " | * 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, " | * 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, " | * 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: Narrative, Discourse and Visual Analysis === | === Week 6: Monday May 2: Narrative, Discourse and Visual Analysis === | ||
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Narrative Analysis: | Narrative Analysis: | ||
* Mitra, | * 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), " | * 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. | |||
Discourse Analysis: | |||
* | * 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.* | |||
Visual Analysis: | Visual Analysis: | ||
* Newbold, Curtis, 2013, " | * 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. | : 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. | : 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: | 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). | * 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). | * 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). | * 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). | * 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). | * 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 6: Wednesday May 4: Design Research === | |||
'''To Be Decided''' | |||
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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: 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. | |||
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'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
* | * Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester UI Guide (pp. 1-15). [Free Online] | ||
* J. | * 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 9: | === Week 8: Wednesday May 18: TBD === | ||
=== Week 9: Monday May 23: Sensor Data === | |||
'''Required Readings:''' | '''Required Readings:''' | ||
Read any 2 of these 4 chapters | 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 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. | ||
* Jackson, Michele, (2011), "What Should Researchers Infer From Links on an Organization's Site?", blog post at http://assett.colorado.edu/jackson/what-should-researchers-infer-from-links-on-an-organizations-site/ | * Jackson, Michele, (2011), "What Should Researchers Infer From Links on an Organization's Site?", blog post at http://assett.colorado.edu/jackson/what-should-researchers-infer-from-links-on-an-organizations-site/ | ||
* 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 == |