Hi Darryl, I appreciated your post about Evernote. I've downloaded it to try, and it does seem quite useful for a free product. One function I'm interested in is the sharing notebooks feature, which I'm thinking might enable me to share fieldnotes among my four research assistants. However, it occurs to me that one might need to think through the ethics implications of sharing information related to participants through a web-based service like this. I realize that access to the sharing of this information is password protected, but is that enough? Further to that, I'm wondering also, if one has a project for which one has submitted an ethics protocol to an IRB, if you feel one needs to specify Evernote as a mode of communication among the research team. (I'm not thinking here at all of using it to communicate with participants, just among research team members). Any advice? Or does anyone else have any thoughts on this? Best, David www.onlinesociability.org -- Dr. David Toews, PhD Assistant Professor Sociology Department York University 2060 Vari Hall 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Tel. 416-736-2100 ext. 60307 Fax. 416-736-5370 dtoews@yorku.ca Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/dtoews Quoting Darryl Woodford <dp.woodford@qut.edu.au>:
Hi Ashley,
In terms of software for storing / indexing this data I recommend Evernote -- it has 'clip to' functionality from most browsers for sites/blogs/tweets (you can select the text and only copy a particular tweet), 'clip from clipboard' for Mac/Windows so you can copy/paste from anywhere for IRC/other platforms, and easy import of documents/pdf's/text files for interviews. Combine that with a decent category/tag system and I think it provides most of what you need -- I have been using it for my research (ethnography of a virtual gaming environment & associated communities) for some time now.
Kind Regards,
Darryl Woodford PhD Candidate | Sessional Academic, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology
On 18 Feb 2012, at 09:06, Ashley Hinck wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone have a recommendation for software to use for online ethnography? I'm looking for something to organize artifacts from a variety of sources, including websites, tumblrs, forums, tweets, interviews, etc. I don't necessarily need the software to help me analyze data, but need something to help manage artifacts from a variety of sources. I've been following the discussion of how best to archive websites, but I was wondering if there might be software that can integrate data from multiple platforms. I'm trying to construct an archive of the online communication of a particular community that uses multiple platforms.
Any help would be much appreciated. =)
-Ashley
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Ashley Hinck
Teaching Assistant and PhD Student in Rhetoric
Communication Arts Department
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
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