Wednesday + Thursday, January 13 + 14: Asynchronous Group Meetings

To Read / Watch in Preparation for Exercise #3:

• Watch M.E. Luka, Annette Markham, and Shannon Mattern demo-ing and discussing the “think aloud” / walk-along assignment < video: 40 min >.
• Read Ben Light, Jean Burgess, and Stefanie Duguay, “The Walkthrough Method: An Approach to the Study of Apps,” New Media & Society 20:3 (2018).

Exercise #3: “Walk-Along” Group Interview:

• In teams of three or four, you’ll conduct a “walk-along” group interview. Please read the exercise prompt here.
• Post any questions, challenges, insights on our Google Docs discussion board.

Supplemental Resources:

• More resources on ethics and regulations in our Zotero repository – especially the Association of Internet Researchers’ Ethics Guidelines; Annette Markham, Katrin Tiidenberg, Andrew Herman, eds., “Ethics as Method” special issue, Social Media + Society (2018) – especially the introduction and afterword; and Katrin Tiidenberg, “Ethics in Digital Research” in Uwe Flick, ed., The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (SAGE, 2018).
• More resources on interviews.
• On participant observation: James P. Spradley, Participant Observation (Waveland Press, 2016).