BYOR

Bring Your Own Research Workshop

BYOR is a research workshop for CDSC affiliates and fellow travelers at Northwestern convened by Aaron Shaw. Participants present research-in-progress and provide feedback, accountability, and support to each other in weekly meetings. Most members of the group are affiliates of the Media, Technology & Society and Technology & Social Behavior programs at Northwestern and study online communities, collective action, organizations, collaboration, and related topics.

Get connected/involved

We currently (as of October 2016) meet every Monday 4-5:30pm in Room 1-483 of the Frances Searle Building on the Northwestern University Campus.

The best way to get information about the workshop is to email Aaron or to subscribe to our email list: byor@listserv.it.northwestern.edu by sending an email to listserv@listserv.it.northwestern.edu with "subscribe byor <full_name>" (replace "<full_name>" with your name) in the body of the message.

Format and expectations

• If you are circulating work, we welcome all projects in any stage, but we ask that it be unpublished work in some stage where the group's feedback will likely matter to you. No formatting requirements, but please share a minimum of 500-1000 words (if you're at a very early stage of a project) to give the group something to engage with. Longer pieces are welcome too.
• If you circulate written work, please do so no less than 1 business day prior to our meeting. (Note that this means Friday for a Monday meeting).
• Instead of circulating written work, you can also do a presentation. If it's early stage work, you might think of this as a 5-10 minute pitch for the project. If it's something that's further along, you could do a longer presentation. No matter what, I recommend limiting presentations to an absolute maximum of 15 minutes.
• At times, we have had short (20 minutes total) and long (45 minutes total) discussion slots. Please sign up for a time slot that you believe is appropriate. If you're not sure what's appropriate, you should ask.
• Please submit any comments or written feedback by Sunday afternoon.
• Each discussion will usually begin with an around-the-table where everyone offers one comment on the work that was circulated (after any other updates).

Snacks

Food restrictions the current quarter: no soy, no meat, label/warn re: sesame or nuts.

Plan on food for ~8 people and we tend to try and have at least one option that is not super sugary. The budget if you're planning on being reimbursed is $50; receipts go to Jordan Dues.

Winter 2017

• January 23
  • Circulate work: Miriam's Prospectus
  • Snacks: Jeremy
• January 30
  • Circulate work: Jeremy's Collective Intelligence abstract
• February 6
  • Circulate work: Rong's paper "Leveraging Team Diversity toward Collaborative Crowdsourcing Success"
  • Snacks: Sneha
• February 13
  • Circulate work: Miriam (will just talk, so no materials in advance) + Isaac (talk on Wikipedia + Urban-Rural Divide, so no materials in advance)
  • Snacks: Ashley
• February 20
  • Circulate work: Aaron, Jim, and Darren on Zooniverse
  • Snacks: Miriam
• February 27
  • No meeting! (too many people at CSCW)
• March 6
  • Cat Turco book discussion!
  • Snacks: ??
• March 13

Fall 2016

• October 3
  • Discuss Isabella's draft conference paper
  • Snacks: Sneha

• October 10
  • Circulate work: Jim
  • Snacks: Isabella

• October 17
  • Circulate work: Rong (Crowdfunding public goods on Kickstarter)
  • Snacks: Brent

• October 24
  • Circulate work: Sneha
  • Snacks: Rong

• October 31
  • Circulate work: Miriam
  • Snacks: Aaron

• November 7
  • Circulate work: Aaron
  • Snacks: Jeremy

• November 14
  • Circulate work:
  • Snacks:

• November 21
  • Circulate work:
  • Snacks:

• November 28
  • Circulate work: Isaac
  • Snacks:

• December 5
  • Social gathering sometime this week!

Spring 2016

• April 4
  • Debrief from prior quarter & plan upcoming sessions
  • Circulate work: ??? (only 1 person max!)
  • Snacks: Aaron will bring some fruit!

• April 11
  • Long window: Aaron (anonedits)
  • Short window: Sneha
  • Snacks/Fruit: William

• April 18
  • Goal setting (40 min). Everyone will create:
    • A sentence or two describing the project you will work on in BYOR this quarter.
    • The outcome you aim to produce by the end of the quarter
    • Milestones, timeline, and/or Gantt chart from April 18-June 6 (and beyond if necessary).
  • Short window: Jim
  • Snacks: Sneha

• April 25
  • Shortish window: Jeremy
  • Short window: William
  • Snacks: Jeremy

• May 2
  • Long window:
  • Short window: Jim
  • Snacks: Jim

• May 9
  • Short window: Rey
  • Snacks: ???

• May 16 (in the Collablab conference room!)
  • Long window: Sneha/Jeremy ICA presentations
  • Snacks: Rey

• May 23
  • Long window: Jim
  • Short window: Rey
  • Snacks: William

• May 30 - NO BYOR

Winter 2016

• January 22
  • Rey Maktoufi
• January 29
  • Marlon Twyman
  • Isabella Loaiza Saa
  • (Snacks: Jim Maddock)
• February 5
  • Ashley Walker
  • Mike DeVito
  • (Snacks: Sneha)
• February 12
  • Jeremy Foote
  • William Marler
  • (Snacks: Jeremy Foote)
• February 19
  • Miriam Boon
  • Kyosuke Tanaka
  • (Snacks: Kyosuke Tanaka)
• February 26
  • Sneha Narayan
  • Isabella's panic attack alleviation
  • (Snacks: Miriam)
• March 11 (Note the date change)
  • Miriam Boon
  • Mike DeVito
  • (Snacks: ???)