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Mara Williams

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular - 3 views

vectors.usc.edu

journal presentation week9 beautiful design flash

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  • Mara Williams on 24 Apr 12
     
    Vectors is a beautiful journal of culture and technology. It pushes its contributors to present research in innovative ways. Not every piece is ethnographic, but it may inspire us to present our research in visually stunning ways. This would be great to consider in week 9.
Mara Williams

Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC) - 4 views

I'm finding the learning curve a bit high on this one. The radial graph maps connections between collections/collectors/institutions - but is there any way to expand the graph - for example, I cli...

ethnography tools archives collections

started by nathan_georgitis on 22 May 12 1 follow-up, last by Mara Williams on 29 May 12
Savanna Bradley

Blogging Anthropology: Savage Minds, Zero Anthropology, and AAA Blogs - Price - 2010 - ... - 5 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...pdf

digital ethnography anthropology pdf week9 read this tools

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  • Savanna Bradley on 09 Apr 12
     
    ABSTRACT In this review essay, the academic merits of three anthropological blogs ("Savage Minds," "Zero Anthropology" [formerly "Open Anthropology"], and the official blog of the American Anthropological Association) are considered.
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  • John Fenn on 16 Apr 12
     
    I'd suggest we take a closer look at this article toward the end of the term (specifically week 9), as we consider the multiple opportunities for "publishing" in the digital era; blogs have begun to end up as research tools in a number of ways, and this article will push us toward larger debates about academic communication/publishing that are raging all around...
  • Kelly Heckman on 16 Apr 12
     
    I know the owner of Savage Minds if we want to talk with him. Please let me know.
  • Mara Williams on 29 May 12
     
    Blogging affords a saoln-like place of exploration - sure. I was underwhelmed by this piece - but the context is probably helpful. The piece is a review. In that it is treating blogging seriously by performing a review in a respectable journal, I appreciate it. However, I want to poke at the edge what tools are acceptable - blogs seem respectable here. That's great, and very professional. But when I want a tool that will help me think through something, I'd rather use something that is less polished. Also a way to engage non-anthropologists - but are academic blogs engaging? Some are - I'm interested in how to create a non-boring academic blog. The end of the review gets at this problem - the author hopes the official AAA blog will use the format to spark debate and create interesting writing; but the status of it as an official blog makes that difficult. The front page is here http://blog.aaanet.org/ I would be interested in what folks think of it in light of this piece.
  • Maya Muñoz-Tobón on 29 May 12
     
    It is interesting how this article brings in the important aspect of collaboration and peer reviews, when analyzing and ethnographic work. The participation of readers and contributors in these blogs range from professional anthropologist to just interested readers, which causes an unbalance on what traditionally has been a seen as peer review work. The multi-directional and multilevel dialogue on these blogs create that malleability of the boundaries of the uses, effects and design of the ethnographic work. This act of participatory input from "multiple voices" makes the presentation of the ethnographic/anthropological work as another "subject" to be studied and analyze, it becomes an auto-reflection of the methodological design of the ethnographic work itself. Presenting the ethnographic work in a blogging format brings more levels of analyzing the data and the interpretation of this data.
  • Mara Williams on 29 May 12
     
    Here's a working academic blog, mostly on the writing process. https://lauraportwoodstacer.wordpress.com/
  • Rosalynn Rothstein on 30 May 12
     
    I appreciate the working academic blog. I might be interested in seeing two or three similar sites that are in dialogue with other another. Either people working on the same project or researchers in a similar field engaged in similar topics. This serves an obviously helpful role in garnering interested in your project.
Kelly Heckman

Periscopic Play: re-positioning "the field" in MMO studies - 9 views

I agree the argument has overtones of the emic/etic perspectives I believe in this instance there is a difference. When one leaves to study a culture in Cameroon, one can become "awed" by the cultu...

methods research MMO games ethnography read this week7 week8 article PDF

started by Kelly Heckman on 13 Apr 12 2 follow-ups, last by Kelly Heckman on 16 Apr 12
Mara Williams

An Atlas of Cyberspaces - 2 views

personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/...atlas.html

digital culture media week5 mapping old school web 1.0 gepgraphy history visualization presentation

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  • Mara Williams on 30 Apr 12
     
    I admit to loving cybercultural studies and web 1.0 aesthetics. This site has them both! It's a collection of visualizations and maps of "the internet" in terms of physical locations (cables, wireless towers, etc.), the conceptual, historical, and artistic. I'm not doing justice to the amount of geographical information presented here. It's worth noting that the site was maintained by UK-based geographer Martin Dodge (http://cyberbadger.blogspot.com/). I invite you to explore the historical and conceptual pages especially. How could these types of maps be integrated into our research?
John Fenn

Methods for Shaping Society | DMLcentral - 1 views

dmlcentral.net/...methods-shaping-society

methods digital read this week9

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  • Research methods are routinely understood as objective techniques for getting to know the world. Yet they may be more influential and socially significant than this, particularly as more digital methods are being developed and deployed. So what, too, do digital methods do?
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      post focused on 'digital media and learning' field, but how might these questions apply to "ethnography"?
  • However, underpinning the technicality of methods is the assumption that they are able to capture and represent the world just as it is. Methods are understood rather like a photographic device that can capture, freeze-frame and reproduce a facsimile of reality. As researchers, we can say we've done a good job if our methods have been up to the job of capturing a picture of an objective reality as it really is—or at least pretty accurately so.
  • But much the same can be said of anthropological ethnographers returning from fieldwork. Their fieldnotes, photographs, dictaphone recordings, transcripts and video data are much like the neuroscientist's CAT and PET scans. They represent a reality—a human brain, a culture, whatever—that has been recorded and made presentable enough for interpretation. But are research methods really so objective? Or do they do other things?
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  • It is that our research methods may in some important ways fabricate the very things we want to observe.
  • Methods are not neutral or innocent tools but necessarily construct, shape, configure, frame and make up the social worlds they study—methods help create society.
  • in 18th and 19th century map-making and census-taking, as well as popular contemporary methods such as sample surveys and focus groups, and the emergence of new digital methods in the 21st century.
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      implication/application for this line of inquiry re: digital ethnography (across the many manifestations we've encountered thus far...)? Also, how do methods of "analysis" figure in to this conversation?
    • Mara Williams
      Mara Williams on 29 May 12
       
      One way into this may be to carry out the author's exercise on the subject of the focus group (social, able to make choices, able to be influenced, likes sandwiches) on the subject of digital research. The piles of ideological baggage from the offline world are still in place - but what changes online? I'm really struggling with this one - maybe it's the water I'm swimming in - but I'm finding it difficult to describe (with any degree of texture) my online activity as separate from offline life.
  • Such details demonstrate the importance of recognizing the social life of methods. These are not neutral tools but politically charged instruments.
  • Methods are also social, however, because they in turn help to shape that social world—or, as it's put in the social life of methods program, methodologically speaking “what you see is what you get.”
  • Important questions are raised for research in digital media and learning by these insights. Newer forms of digital methods are now being developed and deployed that will enable researchers to make data on learning in new kinds of ways.
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      To the point of questions/applicability around 'digital ethnography'...
  • open source social analytics are all beginning to change the ways in which learning can be tracked, recorded, visualized, patterned, documented and presented
  • Is this a big deal? If methods allow us to know more, then doesn't that mean we can intervene more effectively to improve learning? Isn't making new social worlds an admirable aim? Maybe so
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      the ethical dilema...and not necessarily a 'new' one when it comes to ethnographic work; but what changes with the "digital"?
  • Perhaps the key point to be made about many such digital methods is that they generate transactional data without the awareness or intervention of research subjects—we are being aggregated as research data based on our transactions online without even thinking about it.
  • Digital media and learning research traces learning processes as they occur in new digital and networked spaces where they are inseparable from transactional data.
  • Yet one risk, as we have seen, is that the rise of digital methods has begun to emphasize transactional data over human participation in research
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      Is this where "ethnographic" attention or impulse can fit?
    • Mara Williams
      Mara Williams on 29 May 12
       
      That seems to be the argument - though it could be clearer. Transactional material != social and human activity. Perhaps an integrated approach that combines the transactional traces with stories from "actual" humans.
  • Mara Williams on 29 May 12
     
    I really like this piece! I'm not super familiar with DML as a field, but the author's attention to the world-making capabilities (and not even capabilities - it's built in or "politically preloaded") of research methods. The post provides a clear defense against those who would argue that research is just objectively recording the world. At the same time, it doesn't slip into a poststructuralist wormhole about meaning. There's an attention to politics here that 's fruitful [Ah! but politics in general.. What are this author's projects' politics? What departmental/ disciplinary political fights shape the ground on which DML research takes place?]
John Fenn

Sensate Journal - 2 views

sensatejournal.com

journal media experimental practice week8

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  • John Fenn on 20 May 12
     
    Sensate is an online, media-based journal for the creation, presentation, and critique of innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Our aim is to build on the current groundswell of pioneering activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and innovative media practice to provide a forum for scholarly and artistic experiments not conducive to the printed page.
Mara Williams

Art/Research through online comics - 13 views

Fifth mention: http://spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/ Nick Sousanis' blog - he is writing his dissertation about comics in comic form!

research media week8 art visualization zines presentation comics blogs week9

started by Mara Williams on 22 May 12 5 follow-ups, last by Mara Williams on 22 May 12
Mara Williams

Fembot Collective | About - 2 views

fembotcollective.org/about

research presentation gender week9 collective publishing

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  • Mara Williams on 29 May 12
     
    As we are thinking about digital presentation, take a look at the Fembot/Ada site. It's an international collective working on building a digital, feminist peer review process.
Maya Muñoz-Tobón

Hypercities :: About - 4 views

hypercities.com/about

community mapping

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  • Maya Muñoz-Tobón on 05 Jun 12
     
    Translating physical places into digital interactive platforms. This is allowing to transcend time and space timelines, bringing stories from the past and liking them to the relevance of present places.
  • Ed Parker on 11 Jun 12
     
    This is fascinating work. I'm looking forward to exploring this further - particularly the socially-engaged content that is described in the mission statement. It is amazing to think of the amount of data that is available to modern researchers. Kudos to USC and UCLA.
azmorrison

"Socially Conscious Information Visualization" - 0 views

www.periscopic.com

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  • azmorrison on 20 Apr 14
     
    This is another site that can be utilized to differentiate your data from other presentations you might see. Periscopic is a company run out of Portland, and is quickly gaining momentum as a destination for researchers to use to depict their data in a more appealing way than traditional 2-D graphs. This site is different than visual.ly because it is much more focused around scientific research like multi-variable studies, and even more longitudinal research requiring a more expansive visualization. Essentially this is a more professional level research visualization tool, whereas visual.ly is more focused on presentations in creative settings.
Lydel Matthews

You found a planet!: Robert Simpson crowdsources scientific research | TED Blog - 0 views

blog.ted.com/...t-robert-simpson-on-zooniverse

research

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  • Lydel Matthews on 28 Apr 14
     
    A fascinating article about crowdsourcing and asking people online to help categorize images in the name of research! Presents an interesting take on highlighting the difference between what people and computers are capable of.
Aylie B

Center for Media Justice : Articles, Speeches and Publications - 0 views

centerformediajustice.org/...publications

justice articles ethics tools digital culture

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  • Aylie B on 10 Jun 14
     
    The Center for Media Justice presents some great material, particularly as an entry point to undergrads on concepts of media justice and examining the ways oppression operates in a digital sphere, troubling open internet and "closing digital divides" Great stuff!
Tongyu Wu

Another look at Qualitative data analysis for Mac users: Dedoose | Chaos and Noise - 0 views

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digital tools ethnography research

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  • Another look at Qualitative data analysis for Mac users: Dedoose
  • Tongyu Wu on 11 Jun 14
     
    Nice summary of both advantages and disadvantages of dedoose. Although I have mentioned some points (e.g. cross-platform) during my presentation, there are some other features that I have not covered - the visualisation function and the issue of no local copy.
John Fenn

The EVIA Digital Archive Project - 2 views

www.eviada.org

archive tools digital culture video week8

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  • Rosalynn Rothstein on 24 Apr 12
     
    The website contains the following statement under the heading "Intellectual Property and Ethical Issues": "Ethical considerations are handled primarily by individual depositors, based on (a) their arrangements with their primary consultants regarding consent and permission and (b) their concern for materials they do not wish to make public. While guidelines for ethical ethnographic research behavior have been around for many years, the methods of gathering permissions for recordings have varied widely in the decades since video technology has been employed as part of fieldwork" This seems to bring to light the concerns being presented when dealing with materials recorded over a large time period, where ethical considerations chanced considerably. This might be a good project to talk about when we are discussing the ethics of digitization.
John Fenn

Researching the Internet (working paper from EASA) - 3 views

www.media-anthropology.net/...et.-Introductory-comments.html

ethnography digital methods read this spaces week7

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  • John Fenn on 25 Apr 12
     
    Found this via Brant's link to the EASA...on their "Documents" page, under "Working Papers". Link should start downloading the PDF.
  • nathan_georgitis on 26 Apr 12
     
    Good short read (4p) because it presents arguments for and against Hine's belief in online-only research. Probably better than reading Hine's Virtual Ethnography itself; but the review of that work and the author's response in Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies also might be a good exchange to read because we'd get different perspectives but hear Hine speak for herself. Can there be a social space that's solely constituted on and through the internet? And is online-only research the only legitimate research approach to such spaces?
anonymous

List of digital tools (from a Folklore/Ethnomusicology group) - 2 views

folkloreandethnology.org/s-digital-tools-for-field-data

tools not an article

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  • anonymous on 30 Apr 12
     
    Still need a digital tool for your presentation? Here is a list (made by some folks at IU) that I found after some google-ing. "On May 24, 2010 the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology held a meetup for purposes of discussing digital tools of use for field and archival research in these fields. These links were compiled for, during, and after the gathering and are preserved here for the use of participants and interested others."
Mara Williams

Internet World Maps - 1 views

www.labnol.org/...1489

digital culture media week5 domain visualization blog post censorship mapping read this

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  • Mara Williams on 30 Apr 12
     
    I'm taking this week's idea of "domains" a bit literally. Here's a quick blog post from Amit Agarwal (tech columnist for Wall Street Journal India). It links to several visualizations of internet activity. Some are physical: electricity; some are political (i.e. explicitly - all these maps are political!): censorship by country; some are social: use of SNS by country, the first edition of the xckd map of internet communities.* He offers these maps without much commentary. I'm interested in how these visual representations could help us think about the "where" of digital ethnography. My offline/physical context may be a coffee shop in Eugene, OR, am I also placed on these maps? What kinds of maps help you think about the "where" of the internet? * The second edition is worth looking at to think about the way time and technological development shapes our understanding of space.
  • Mara Williams on 30 Apr 12
     
    Here's a link to the second version of the xckd map of internet communities. https://xkcd.com/802/ While not a "real" map, I often use it in presentations to explain the idea that online communities are particular and exist in relation to each other. I often pair it with the concept of "fractalized communities" found in Patrica Lange's work in youtube video bloggers. Both get at the specificity of online research; there isn't one internet that I can study - I can only tell you about my time in this particular community.
anonymous

http://vwbpe12.vwbpe.org/ 5th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference - 0 views

Some interesting topics listed; looks like video and transcriptions of select presentations will be available soon.

digital culture education

started by anonymous on 07 May 12 no follow-up yet
Rosalynn Rothstein

Murmur - 2 views

http://murmurtoronto.ca/about.php This is an interesting project to think about if you are imaging how to re-present your research to a community you have been working in. I would be interested to ...

digital product oral history

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