Analysis Methods: Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Hermeneutics, Narrative, Study notes of Computer Science

Download Analysis Methods: Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Hermeneutics, Narrative and more Study notes Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity! Other Analysis Methods Other Methods Overview • Review of purpose of Analysis - Review of Grounded Theory • Other Approaches - Content analysis - Hermeneutics - Narrative - Conversational Analysis (CA) - Ethnomethodology Analysis Review of Objective • Fieldwork produces - Voluminous raw data • Analysis turns this raw data into findings - Search for patterns in data - Ideas that help explain why those patterns are there • Analysis process - Organise fieldnotes into readable narrative descriptions - Major themes/categories identified - Illustrative case studies provide Analysis Review of Grounded Theory • Analysis is process of hypothesis generation • Grounded Theory - Induction from the data through open coding - Migration towards deductive analysis in confirmatory phases of study Other Approaches Aesthetic/Visual • Relatively new domains for Computer Science - Information Art, Visual Communications • Aesthetics - Study of art and artistic appreciation + To what extent is our experience of art similar/different to our experience of nature? • Sociology of Art - Study of the production and consumption • Visual Sociology - The study of images, also the production of images Other Approaches Aesthetic/Visual • Aesthetics - Language of Art + Principle of Variety in Unity + Principle of Balance + Principle of Hierarchy - Language of both Structure and Expression • Meaning of Images - What did I mean when I took it + What was I trying to say - What did I “read” when I looked at the image + Who was I in relation to the image’s producer, what did I know about the scene Analysis Common Features Common Features Overview * Memos « Diagramming * Organisation } |, Georgia | oi Tech Common Features Memos • Variety of analysis rely on memos • Memos - Organise the analyst’s thoughts + For example, contain a synthesis of a category discovered in Grounded Theory - Document analyst’s procedures + For example, explain the coding scheme used (how developed, what codes mean) • Qualitative analysis of qualitative data - Is all about writing Common Features Diagramming • Memos sometimes not most effective method - E.g. drawing relations among various categories • Diagramming - Flow charts, conceptual maps + In other words familiar tools that support qualitative research - Flow charts + Document the sequence or flow of actions - Conceptual maps + Document how categories fit together • The key to diagramming - Apply common sense! Conversation Analysis Unique Aspects • Incredibly detailed transcripts of conversation - Include not just what was said but + Pause timings, intonation, organisation so that overlaps can be seen • Data sessions - Joint analysis of a small sample of data + Not exclusive to CA, but enthusiastically embraced in this tradition - Belief that analysis is stronger when people agree about what’s happening Conversation Analysis Computing • Electronic communications - Often disrupt the social order of interaction - Apply Conversation Analysis to find out why + Hutchby studies of IRC • Designing new types of communication technology - Examine CA literature for examples of “good” interaction order - Apply them to the design of new technologies + Aoki and Woodruff Ethnomethodology Overview • Ethnomethology - Ethno - Folk so folk methodology • What does that mean? - Everyday people socially reason about a variety of things + Draw on evidence, use methods to make sense of situations - Ad hoc practices, dealing with vagueness, etc. rules, making do, wait and see, enough is enough, glossing, let it pass + These types of practices help us all manage our actions and interactions + With each other and with technology Ethnomethodologists Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) • Ethnomethodologists enter the field - Looking for the practices that help people function • Ethnomethodologists in CSCW - Graham Button, John Hughes, Wes Sharrock + All participated in understanding how technology and people’s everyday practices interact - Support work of design + By explaining what it is that people really do and how that could be best supported CA and Ethnomethodology Final Words • CA and Ethnomethodology are - Pervasive throughout the social sciences in computer science • But do not represent all possibilities - Most of all, they represent very particular stances + On what the purpose of studying social settings is Analysis Final Thoughts • Just as analysis presents possibilities - So do data collection methods • The research question should drive - Selection of what methods will best collect data that answer the question - Selection of analysis technique that priortises appropriate outcome