We’ll meet synchronously on Zoom.
To Prepare for Today:
- Particularly as we turn our attention from ourselves to others – from autoethnography to ethnography – we must consider the ethics of our work. Please watch Annette Markham, “Ethics and Online Social Research: Key Concerns in a Datafied, Post-Pandemic World,” NVIVO (2020) < video: 44:07 >.
- And while our next exercise still focuses on the gathering of data – this time, through observation of other people – we want to think ahead to consider what we do with all that data once we’ve gathered it; this will be the focus of our discussion today. Please read Kathy Charmaz, “Gathering Rich Data” in Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis (SAGE, 2006): 13-42 — focus on first 12 pages.
- Supplemental: resources on “methods for sorting and analyzing” data in our Zotero repository
Today’s Agenda:
5 – 6:20pm ET: We’ll introduce some practices and tools of analysis and discuss how we might analyze the data you generated in Exercises #1 and #2. In three segments, we’ll discuss the coding of textual material, the coding of visual material, and situational mapping.
Break
6:30 – 7:15pm ET: We’ll practice coding in small groups, then discuss.
7:15 – 7:35pm ET: We’ll reassemble our small groups to create a situational map of the same texts we coded earlier.
7:35-7:55pm ET: We’ll discuss how we could apply the knowledge we gained through self-observation (our auto-ethnographic work) to other-oriented ethnographic practice, and we’ll introduce Exercise #3.
7:55 – 8pm ET: You’ll meet with your affinity groups to exchange contact info and set a time to meet for Exercise #3 – due in class on Friday.