Carolyn Wanat, “Getting Past the Gatekeepers” Samuel Martinez, “Making Violence Visible” Thursday, January 31 What are sub-questions? What is “research design”? Schensul, “Elaborating Research Questions” Schensul, “Overview of Research Design” Tuesday, Feb 5 What is a “population”, and how do I decide which ones to focus on? PRE-DESIGN DUE Schensul, Jean and Margaret LeCompte, “Selecting Populations and Units of Analysis” Thursday, Feb 7 How do I recruit and sample participants for this How do I decide which research-gathering techniques to use? Jean Schensul et al, “Ethnographic Sampling” Kerry Strand et al, “Collecting the Data” Annette Brunovskis, “Untold Stories” Schensul and LeCompte, “Data Collection Techniques” PART 3: OBSERVATION AND INTERVIEWING
Tuesday, Feb 12 Observation, 1 RESEARCH DESIGN DUE Robert Emerson et al, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, 17-65 James Spradley, Participant Observation, 53-80 Gibbs, “Writing”, 24-37 Sarah Pink, “Re-sensing participant observation: sensory emplaced learning” Thursday, Feb 14 Observation, 2 Emerson et al, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, 66-141 Tuesday, Feb 19 Interviewing about specific domains OBSERVATION REPORT DUE Hesse-Biber and Leavy, “Designing an in-depth interview study” James Spradley, “Asking Descriptive Questions” Sarah Pink, “Articulating Emplaced Knowledge: Understanding Sensory Experiences through Interviews” Thursday, February 21 Issues of power in interviewing Sand and Krumer-Nevo, “Interview Shocks and Shockwaves” Rice, Gareth. 2010. Reflections on interviewing elites. Area 42, 70-75 Miller and Glassner, “The ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’” Hiller and DeLuzio, “The interviewee and the research interview” Tuesday, February 26 Using places, objects and photographs FIELD BOOK CHECK-IN #1 Sarah Pink, “Walking with video” Cohen and De Leon, “Object and Walking Probes” Katherin Fultz, “Collaborative Media Production and Antropología Comprometida” Castleden, Heather, Theresa Garvin, and Huu-ay-aht Nation. “Modifying Photovoice for Community-Based Participatory Indigenous Research.” PART 4: ETHICS AND POLITICS Thursday, February 28 Risks, benefits, and informed consent AAA, 1998 Code of Ethics, plus 2009 update
Sean Field, “Oral History Methodology” 2 of the following: Alicia Rouverol, “Collaborative oral history in a correctional setting: Promise and pitfalls” Jocelyn Vargas, “Afro-Puerto Rican Oral Histories” Wendy Rickard, “Collaborating with sex workers in oral history” Rachel Slater, “Using life histories to explore change” Papa and Lassiter 2003 Campbell and Lassiter 2010 Thursday, March 21 Focus group interviews Pranee Liamputtong, Focus Groups: Principles and Practice (2011) Tuesday, 26 Auto-ethnography FIELD BOOK CHECK-IN #2 Heewon Chang, Autoethnography as method (selections) Further reading: Computer-mediated social relations Sarah Pink, 2012a. “The Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking About Activism and the Internet” _________, 2012b. “Visual ethnography and the internet: visuality, virtuality and the spatial turn” Anne Beaulieu, 2011 “From co-location to co-presence” ____________ and Adolfo Estallela, 2012 “Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings” James Dickman, 2010 “Social Interactions on Skype” PART 6: ANALYSIS AND REPRESENTATION Thursday, March 28 Beginning the process “The Nature of Qualitative Analysis”, _____, “Data Preparation”