Re: [Air-L] Field notes best practice
Thanks, everybody who responded, for the very helpful and diverse advice. Much appreciated!! Happy, too, to have a listserv where I can put forth such requests and receive kind feedback from experienced and growing (like me) researchers. Thanks, AoIR! On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Knight, Kimberly <kim.knight@utdallas.edu>wrote:
Hi Katie,
I don't do ethnographic research so I have no idea if this is really appropriate but it struck me while reading your inquiry that Evernote might be a good way to manage this. You can set up notebooks to organize notes, but most importantly for your case, you can tag individual notes with keywords. The search is quite good so if you are consistent with your keyword tagging, you could use this to pull up common threads across notes and notebooks.
Best of luck, _____ Kim Knight Assistant Professor Emerging Media and Communication UT Dallas - Arts and Humanities kim.knight@utdallas.edu
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:19:14 -0700 From: Katie Derthick <derthick@u.washington.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Field notes best practice? Message-ID: <CAHHyWPcJkYEMOahc7Gns0shHLOctqsQB= Oz-2cmPGGOKxpZe0g@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi everybody. I'm about to embark on my dissertation research study, which will include year-long ethnography at 3 different communities. I'm wondering what will be better for me: to have one long field notes document where entries for each community simply appear one after the other, or three separate documents, one for each community. In the end, I'd like to be able to paint a picture of each community, but also make claims about my overarching research goals.
I appreciate any advice or insight you have to offer! For the record, I'm studying the relationship between values, meditation practice, and technology use, and looking at a monastery, a meditation center, and a virtual org.
Thanks, Katie
-- Katie Derthick PhD Candidate Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:57:09 +0000 From: James Robson <james.robson@gtc.ox.ac.uk> To: Katie Derthick <derthick@u.washington.edu>, "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Field notes best practice? Message-ID: <57D7EB1459457843BB6353F570CB70570FA85D@MBX10.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Katie,
Your study sounds really interesting.
I'm just (hopefully) coming to the end of my doctorate where, like you, I conducted an ethnography and spent a year in 3 communities.
I think it depends on how closely linked your communities are. If they form part of a single network with users interacting across all three spaces, then a single document would probably be best. On the other hand, if you're essentially doing 3 ethnographic case studies in independent communities, then it's potentially a little different.
My study (on teacher communities) was more akin to the latter and I started using using three separate documents. However, it became fairly irritating flicking between them and I was never quite sure where to put my more reflexive thoughts about the whole process. Therefore I quickly started using just one document but had 4 colours within it - one colour for each community and one for general reflexive thoughts and emergent analysis.
I found this more user friendly and pretty useful as it provided a more holistic narrative of the whole research process, while easily allowing me to separate out the different communities if I wanted to for analysis. It was a good way to keep track of my cross-community thoughts and helped with reflexive insight - ie it helped me see where some of my experiences in one community might potentially influencing the way I behaved in another.
I don't know if it's best practice but I found the single-document-multiple-colours approach really helpful.
Good luck with your fieldwork
Thanks James ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Katie Derthick [derthick@u.washington.edu] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 5:19 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Field notes best practice?
Hi everybody. I'm about to embark on my dissertation research study, which will include year-long ethnography at 3 different communities. I'm wondering what will be better for me: to have one long field notes document where entries for each community simply appear one after the other, or three separate documents, one for each community. In the end, I'd like to be able to paint a picture of each community, but also make claims about my overarching research goals.
I appreciate any advice or insight you have to offer! For the record, I'm studying the relationship between values, meditation practice, and technology use, and looking at a monastery, a meditation center, and a virtual org.
Thanks, Katie
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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:44:15 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@uti.at> To: List Aoir <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Why and How to Read Marx?s ?Capital?? Reflections on Johan Forn?s' book ?Capitalism. A Companion to Marx?s Economy Critique? Message-ID: <51DB32AF.7030800@uti.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Fuchs, Christian. 2013. Why and How to Read Marx?s ?Capital?? Reflections on Johan Forn?s' book ?Capitalism. A Companion to Marx?s Economy Critique?. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 11 (2): 294-309. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/488
Abstract This paper is a reflection on Johan Forn?s book ?Capitalism. A Companion to Marx?s Economy Critique? - a new introduction to all three volumes of Karl Marx's "Capital". It contextualizes the book with the help a comparison to other contemporary introductions to Marx's "Capital". The reflection is organized in the form of 8 sections: 1) Context 2) Method and Logic of Presentation 3) The Logical and the Historical in Marx?s Works 4) From Karl to Adolf Marx in German Marxist Theory? 5) Visualization 6) Crises 7) Read this Book!
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Hi Katie, I wanted to add one more idea. I just finished my dissertation, which was an exploration of anonymous blogs written by NYC public school teachers. Although my main methodology was qualitative thematic analysis, there were elements of ethnography as well. I was interested in developing a tool on my own that would be flexible and, if possible, utilized a blogging platform. I was able to develop a fairly simple tool -- which I dubbed my 'metablog' for the purposes of the study -- using a secure WordPress site via opencuny.org (a multi-user WP site that was developed for and by students at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York), to help me organize my data. I was able to collect, annotate, and aggregate my data using this metablog. By using the highlighting feature (just like you might in MS Word or email) to code my data, and using the category and tag functions to introduce and track new themes as they arose, I was able to easily keep track of and build on my analysis as I collected notes and data. I used the comment function for my annotations as the study developed, and wrote up and stored any fieldnotes in the metablog, along with the data. Everything was in one digital 'place,' I was able to export and back up the metablog periodically so that I never lost any data, and it worked out surprisingly well! I am currently working on a manuscript about my methods, so don't have anything officially published yet, but would be happy to share the methods chapter from my dissertation with you (and anyone else who'd like to see it) if you're interested. Good luck! Best, Kiersten On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Katie Derthick <derthick@u.washington.edu>wrote:
Thanks, everybody who responded, for the very helpful and diverse advice. Much appreciated!! Happy, too, to have a listserv where I can put forth such requests and receive kind feedback from experienced and growing (like me) researchers. Thanks, AoIR!
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Knight, Kimberly <kim.knight@utdallas.edu>wrote:
Hi Katie,
I don't do ethnographic research so I have no idea if this is really appropriate but it struck me while reading your inquiry that Evernote might be a good way to manage this. You can set up notebooks to organize notes, but most importantly for your case, you can tag individual notes with keywords. The search is quite good so if you are consistent with your keyword tagging, you could use this to pull up common threads across notes and notebooks.
Best of luck, _____ Kim Knight Assistant Professor Emerging Media and Communication UT Dallas - Arts and Humanities kim.knight@utdallas.edu
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:19:14 -0700 From: Katie Derthick <derthick@u.washington.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Field notes best practice? Message-ID: <CAHHyWPcJkYEMOahc7Gns0shHLOctqsQB= Oz-2cmPGGOKxpZe0g@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi everybody. I'm about to embark on my dissertation research study, which will include year-long ethnography at 3 different communities. I'm wondering what will be better for me: to have one long field notes document where entries for each community simply appear one after the other, or three separate documents, one for each community. In the end, I'd like to be able to paint a picture of each community, but also make claims about my overarching research goals.
I appreciate any advice or insight you have to offer! For the record, I'm studying the relationship between values, meditation practice, and technology use, and looking at a monastery, a meditation center, and a virtual org.
Thanks, Katie
-- Katie Derthick PhD Candidate Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:57:09 +0000 From: James Robson <james.robson@gtc.ox.ac.uk> To: Katie Derthick <derthick@u.washington.edu>, "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Field notes best practice? Message-ID: <57D7EB1459457843BB6353F570CB70570FA85D@MBX10.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Katie,
Your study sounds really interesting.
I'm just (hopefully) coming to the end of my doctorate where, like you, I conducted an ethnography and spent a year in 3 communities.
I think it depends on how closely linked your communities are. If they form part of a single network with users interacting across all three spaces, then a single document would probably be best. On the other hand, if you're essentially doing 3 ethnographic case studies in independent communities, then it's potentially a little different.
My study (on teacher communities) was more akin to the latter and I started using using three separate documents. However, it became fairly irritating flicking between them and I was never quite sure where to put my more reflexive thoughts about the whole process. Therefore I quickly started using just one document but had 4 colours within it - one colour for each community and one for general reflexive thoughts and emergent analysis.
I found this more user friendly and pretty useful as it provided a more holistic narrative of the whole research process, while easily allowing me to separate out the different communities if I wanted to for analysis. It was a good way to keep track of my cross-community thoughts and helped with reflexive insight - ie it helped me see where some of my experiences in one community might potentially influencing the way I behaved in another.
I don't know if it's best practice but I found the single-document-multiple-colours approach really helpful.
Good luck with your fieldwork
Thanks James ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Katie Derthick [derthick@u.washington.edu] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 5:19 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Field notes best practice?
Hi everybody. I'm about to embark on my dissertation research study, which will include year-long ethnography at 3 different communities. I'm wondering what will be better for me: to have one long field notes document where entries for each community simply appear one after the other, or three separate documents, one for each community. In the end, I'd like to be able to paint a picture of each community, but also make claims about my overarching research goals.
I appreciate any advice or insight you have to offer! For the record, I'm studying the relationship between values, meditation practice, and technology use, and looking at a monastery, a meditation center, and a virtual org.
Thanks, Katie
-- Katie Derthick PhD Candidate Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:44:15 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@uti.at> To: List Aoir <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Why and How to Read Marx?s ?Capital?? Reflections on Johan Forn?s' book ?Capitalism. A Companion to Marx?s Economy Critique? Message-ID: <51DB32AF.7030800@uti.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Fuchs, Christian. 2013. Why and How to Read Marx?s ?Capital?? Reflections on Johan Forn?s' book ?Capitalism. A Companion to Marx?s Economy Critique?. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 11 (2): 294-309. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/488
Abstract This paper is a reflection on Johan Forn?s book ?Capitalism. A Companion to Marx?s Economy Critique? - a new introduction to all three volumes of Karl Marx's "Capital". It contextualizes the book with the help a comparison to other contemporary introductions to Marx's "Capital". The reflection is organized in the form of 8 sections: 1) Context 2) Method and Logic of Presentation 3) The Logical and the Historical in Marx?s Works 4) From Karl to Adolf Marx in German Marxist Theory? 5) Visualization 6) Crises 7) Read this Book!
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