software for online ethnography
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 -- Ashley Hinck Teaching Assistant and PhD Student in Rhetoric Communication Arts Department The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hi Ashley, I opted to use a private blog which I called e-Fieldnotes. Every conversation with the same person goes to a post, events, videos, other links etc have their own place as well. No one has access except from me and I can access it from wherever I want (I'm conducting online and multi-sited ethnography at the same time so it's very handy). It's also really easy to search by keyword - something which will be handy when I'll be doing the writing up of my dissertation. Hope that helps. All the best, Marilou Polymeropoulou Technoaesthetic Ethnomusicologist http://mariloup.wordpress.com St. Peter's College University of Oxford Reading for DPhil in Music On 17 Feb 2012, at 23:06, 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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Hi Ashley, Marilou and AoIR, Here's an interesting book on Field Notes - http://www.amazon.com/Fieldnotes-Makings-Anthropology-Roger-Sanjek/dp/080149... - which I may add to the subjects below. And World University & School, (like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware), has a number of Ethnography & Anthropology, related, wiki subjects, for sharing of teaching and learning resources, including - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ethnography http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folklore_-_Ethnology I'm also curious to explore how building virtual worlds, such as in the 3-D virtual world of ScienceSim, for example, can be made easy and helpful for anthropologists. I'm planning to build a virtual Harbin Hot Springs, as virtual, ethnographic field site, for an actual / virtual comparative ethnographic book about Harbin which I'm writing. Such virtual worlds allow for group text chat (where one can save the transcripts) as well as group voice chat, for example. Here are some thoughts from my blog about what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-grap... - as a novel form of ethnographic practice, involving virtual worlds. (See also the entries on virtual Harbin, as well). Let's converse further about this. Best wishes, Scott http://scottmacleod.com On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Marilou Polymeropoulou <m.polymeropoulou@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ashley,
I opted to use a private blog which I called e-Fieldnotes. Every conversation with the same person goes to a post, events, videos, other links etc have their own place as well. No one has access except from me and I can access it from wherever I want (I'm conducting online and multi-sited ethnography at the same time so it's very handy). It's also really easy to search by keyword - something which will be handy when I'll be doing the writing up of my dissertation.
Hope that helps.
All the best,
Marilou Polymeropoulou Technoaesthetic Ethnomusicologist http://mariloup.wordpress.com St. Peter's College University of Oxford Reading for DPhil in Music
On 17 Feb 2012, at 23:06, 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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Teaching Assistant and PhD Student in Rhetoric
Communication Arts Department
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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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if you have a mac... i think there is one best choice for this. devonthink pro. i use devonthink pro office. it is one of those apps that can... change your world another possible choice is tinderbox, if you can come to use it... will actually transform your productive life for the better, but i gave up on it because of the subscription model.
and devonthink pro just went on sale, http://www.mupromo.com/deal/1742/10779/devonthink-pro
I wrestled with Devonthink's demo for a while but the migration of data / structures from one to the other wasn't something I wanted to face mid-project. The other issue is that if you're multi-location (home/office/mobile) on different devices, Devonthink didn't seem to have good cloud/sharing functionality. There's a good (but old) comparison of the two at: http://gigaom.com/apple/faceoff-devonthink-pro-office-vs-evernote-premium/ Thanks for the link though Jeremy -- seems a good time to buy it and store for future use. Cheers, Darryl On 18 Feb 2012, at 23:28, Jeremy hunsinger wrote: and devonthink pro just went on sale, http://www.mupromo.com/deal/1742/10779/devonthink-pro Darryl Woodford PhD Candidate | Sessional Academic, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology E-Mail: darryl@dpwoodford.net<mailto:darryl@dpwoodford.net> | dp.woodford@qut.edu.au<mailto:dp.woodford@qut.edu.au> Mobile (AU): 0449881920 Skype: santow
yes, since i tend to carry my data with me on my laptop and thus i'm more jeremy-sited, work anywhere, than multi-sited, devonthink works well for me. also, since i don't ever get third party access put into my ethics review unless there is transcription needs, using a cloudbased service would be breaking the agreement i make with my subjects on access to the materials. On Feb 18, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Darryl Woodford wrote:
I wrestled with Devonthink's demo for a while but the migration of data / structures from one to the other wasn't something I wanted to face mid-project. The other issue is that if you're multi-location (home/office/mobile) on different devices, Devonthink didn't seem to have good cloud/sharing functionality.
There's a good (but old) comparison of the two at: http://gigaom.com/apple/faceoff-devonthink-pro-office-vs-evernote-premium/
Thanks for the link though Jeremy -- seems a good time to buy it and store for future use.
Cheers,
Darryl
On 18 Feb 2012, at 23:28, Jeremy hunsinger wrote:
and devonthink pro just went on sale, http://www.mupromo.com/deal/1742/10779/devonthink-pro
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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
--
Ashley Hinck
Teaching Assistant and PhD Student in Rhetoric
Communication Arts Department
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Hi David, It's definitely a consideration, and something your IRB may or may not object to. I don't imagine you'd have a problem using it for collection of web resources (blogs, forums, websites etc) - which is probably it's main advantage with the clipping functionality, but interviews are more restrictive. One solution may be to keep the original copy in whatever format your IRB require (locked filing cabinet / university computer system), but keep the tagged / anonymised version 'in the cloud', though I think the best answer is just to clarify with your own board, as in my experience they've varied widely by country & even by institution. As for using it as a mode of communication, I have never given it much thought. I don't think it is any different in terms of sharing resources than services like Dropbox, but again it likely depends on your own boards requirements & understanding of the technology. Cheers, Darryl On 24 Feb 2012, at 06:58, David Toews wrote:
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
--
Ashley Hinck
Teaching Assistant and PhD Student in Rhetoric
Communication Arts Department
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
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