We’ll meet synchronously on Zoom; login info to come. Feel free to stock up on drinks and snacks to sustain yourself through this meeting and our future sessions! (Just please remember to mute yourself when you’re slurping and crunching 😉)
Today’s Agenda:
5 – 5:30pm ET: We’ll introduce ourselves and provide an overview of the course structure and goals.
5:30 – 6:20pm ET: Prof Markham will share a lecture highlighting the key themes of the course.
Break
6:30 – 7:15pm ET: We’ll introduce our exercises for the next few days and discuss the broader value and applications of the themes, concepts, skills we’ll be learning over the next two weeks.
7:15 – 8pm ET: We’ll break into university-specific groups to discuss our individual course goals, how this two-week intensive serves our purposes, and what kinds of projects you might like to pursue.
To Do After Class:
- Read Annette Markham, “Doing Ethnographic Research in the Digital Age,” in Patricia Leavy, ed., The Field of Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2020).
- Read David Wästerfors, “Interactions,” in Uwe Flick, ed., The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (SAGE, 2018) and consider: how does Wästerfors’s guidance translate to the virtual realm? How do we observe online?
- Access our lo-fi Google Doc “discussion board” to post any questions or share resources about Exercise #1 (due Thursday), about the intensive class in general, or about digital ethnography.
- Please plan ahead for this weekend’s exercise, a Media Fast. You’ll need to be prepared to “take a break from digital media consumption” for a day 🙂