Course book
Crang and Cook (2007): Doing Ethnographies (Chapters 1-5, 7-9), Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0-7619-4446-1.
The course book is complemented with articles/chapters focusing on relevant debates, approaches and examples from the informatics field, mainly Information Systems Research, Design, and Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW).
Book chapters and papers marked as ADDITIONAL will not be required for the exam; they are meant as suggestions for further reading.
Articles and Book Chapters
Introduction to the course and qualitative research
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Additional
Kalleberg, R. (1992) A constructive Turn in Sociology, ISO Rapportserie, Report Nr. 19, Department of Sociology, UiO
Kalleberg, R. (2002) 澳门葡京手机版app下载sopplegget og samfunnsforskningens dobbeltdialog, Kvalitative metoder i samfunnsforskning. H. Holter and R. Kalleberg, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, p. 26-55.
Latour, B. (1999): Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest, In Pandoras Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Harvard University Press. Chap. 2, pp. 24-79.
Nygaard, Kristen (1992): How Many Choices Do We Make? How Many Are Difficult? In: Floyd et al (eds.) Proceedings from Software Development and Reality Construction, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 52-59
Overview of the field + intro to the research paradigms positivist, interpretive, critical
Myers, M.D., Section Editor (living version): Qualitative Research in Information Systems, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Originally published in MISQ Discovery, June 1997. Available online.
Walsham, Geoff (2012): Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field, Journal of Information Technology, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp 87–93.
Additional
Klein, H. K. and Myers, M. D. (1999): A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems, MIS Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 67-94. Available online.
Myers, M. D. & Klein, H. K. (2011): A set of Principles for Conducting Critical Research in Information Systems. MIS Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 17-36.
McGrath, K. (2005), Doing critical research in information systems: a case of theory and practice not informing each other. Information Systems Journal, 15: 85-101.
Orlikowski, W.J., and J.J. Baroudi (1991): “Studying Information Technology in Organizations: Research Approaches and Assumptions.” Information Systems Research 2 (1): 1–28. Available online.
Conducting fieldwork. Generating material
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Additional
Blauhut, D. & Buur, J. (2009): What video styles can do for user research. Paper at The Nordes Conference 2009 "Engaging Artifacts", Oslo, Norway. Available online.
Crang and Cook (2007): Doing Ethnographies, "Chapter 6: Focus groups", Sage Publications.
Edwards, R. & Holland J., (2013) What is Qualitative Interviewing?, London: Bloomsbury, . 127 pp.
Suri, J. F. (2011): Poetic Observation: What Designers Make of What They See. In Clarke, A. J. (ed.) Design Anthropology. Object Culture In the 21st Century. SpringerWienNewYork. pp. 16-32. Available online
Flewit, R. (2006): Using video to investigate preschool classroom interaction: education research assumptions and methodological practices. Visual Communication 2006 5, pp. 25-50. Available online.
Graver, B., Dunne, T. and Pacenti, E. (1999) Cultural Probes: Cultural Probes, In Interactions. Jan+Feb. 1999, pp. 21-29. Available online. .
Ethics + privacy in research online and offline
Slides from Gisle's lecture
Case Studies
Flyvbjerg, B. (2006): Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12, no. 2. Sage Publications, pp. 219-245. Available online.
Stake, R. E. (2005): Qualitative Case Studies, In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (eds.) (2005): The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. Chap. 17, pp. 443-466.
Walsham, G. (2002): Interpretive Case Study in IS Research, Sage. Ch 6 in Myers and Avison (eds) "Qualitative Research in Information Systems".
Walsham, G. and Sahay, S. (1999): GIS for District-Level Administration in India: Problems and Opportunities, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 39-65.
Additional
Baxter, P. & Jack, S. (2008): Qualitative Case Study Methodology: Study Design and Implementation for Novice Researchers. The Qualitative Report Volume 13 Number 4 December 2008: 544-599. . Online access.
Geertz, C. (1972): Deep play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, In Geertz, C. The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books
Lee, A. and Baskerville, R. (2003): Generalizing Generalizability, Information Systems Research. Vol 14, no 3, pp. 221-243.
Paré, G. (2004). Investigating Information Systems with Positivist Case Research. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 13
Ethnography, positioning the researcher
Murphey, K. M. & Marcus, G. E. (2013): Epilogue: Ethnography and Design, Ethnograpgy in Design... Ethnography by Design. In Gunn, W., Otto, T. & Smith, R. C. (eds.) Design Anthropology. Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 251-268.
Verne, G. (2020) Adapting to a Robot: Adapting gardening and the
garden to fit a robot lawn mower. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20 Companion), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3378182
Additional
Blomberg, J., Giacomi, J. Mosher, A. and Swenton-Wall, P. (1993): Ethnographic Field Methods and Their Relation to Design, In Schuler, D. & A. Namioka (eds.) Participatory Design: Principles and Practices. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Pp. 123-156.
Christiansen, E. & Andersen, V. K. (2013): Digital Living at Home – User Voices about Home Automation and Home-Keeping Design Discourse. Aanestad & Bratteteig (eds.): SCIS 2013, pp. 40-52. Available online.
Forsythe, D. (1999): It's Just a Matter of Common Sense: Ethnography as Invisible Work, Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. vol. 8, no. 1-2, pp. 127-145. Available online.
Hughes J., King, V., Rodden, T., Andersen, H. (1994): Moving out from the control room: Ethnography in systems design, In Proceedings from CSCW’94, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Available online.
Harper, R. (2000): The Organization in Ethnography. A discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW, Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 239-264. Available online.
Monahan, T. (2008): Picturing technological change: the materiality of information infrastructures in public education, 2008. Technology, Pedagogy and Education. Vol. 17, No. 2, July 2008, 89-101. Available online.
Nardi, B., Harris, J. (2006): Strangers and friends: collaborative play in world of warcraft, Proceedings of CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work, Pages 149-158, ACM New York,
Randall, D., Harper, R. & Rouncefield, M. (2007a): Chap. 6 "Ethnography and How to Do It". In Fieldwork for Design. Theory and Practice. Springer. pp. 169-197. Available online.
Randall, D., Harper, R. & Rouncefield, M. (2007b): Chap. 9 "Into the Home", in Fieldwork for Design. Theory and Practice., Springer. pp. 255-287. Online access.
Schultze, U. (2002): A Confessional Account of an Ethnography about Knowledge Work, MIS Quarterly. Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3- 41. .
Star, S. L. (1999): The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 377-391. Online access.
Suchman, L. and E. Wynn (1984) Procedures and problems in the office Office: Technology and People(2): 133-154. Online access.
van der Waal, K. (2009): Getting going: Organizing ethnographic fieldwork. In Ybema, S., Yanow, D., Wels, H. & Kamsteeg, F. (edt.): Organizational Ethnography. Studying Complexities of Everyday Life., Sage. Chap. 1, pp. 23-39. ISBN: 978-1-84787-046-9.
Wasson, C. (2000): Ethnography in the field of design. Human Organization 59.4. Available online
Grounded Theory. Analyzing data + quality in qualitative research
Mills, J., Bonner, A. & Francis K. (2006): The Development of Constructivist Grounded Theory. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5(1). Online access.
Urquhart, Cathy and Fernandez, Walter, "Grounded Theory Method: The Researcher as Blank Slate and Other Myths" (2006). ICIS 2006 Proceedings. 31.
Additional
Birks, M., Hoare, K., & Mills, J. (2019). Grounded Theory: The FAQs. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919882535
(2013) Grounded theory method in information systems research: its nature, diversity and opportunities, European Journal of Information Systems, 22:1, 1-8.
Charmaz, K. (2005): Grounded Theory in The 21st Century. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (eds.) (2005): The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. Chap. 20, pp. 507-535.
Klaas-Jan Stol, Paul Ralph, and Brian Fitzgerald. 2016. Grounded theory in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 120–131.
Chun Tie, Y., Birks, M., & Francis, K. (2019). Grounded theory research: A design framework for novice researchers. SAGE Open Medicine.
Thoresen, K. (1999): Appendix D: Grounded Theory, PhD Thesis: Computer Use. University of Oslo, Department of Informatics. ADDITIONAL.
Urquhart, C., Fernández, W. (2013) Using grounded theory method in information systems: the researcher as blank slate and other myths. J Inf Technol 28, 224–236.
White, J. & Weatherall, A. (2000): A Grounded Theory Analysis of Older Adults and Information Technology. Educational Gerontology, 26:4, pp. 371-386. Online access
Action Research
Baskerville, R. and Wood-Harper, T. (2002): A Critical Perspective on Action Research as a Method for Information Systems Research, In Myers and Avison (eds) Qualitative Research in Information Systems. Chap. 8. vol 23, no. 1, pp. 39-66. .
Checkland, P., and Holwell, S. (1998): Action Research: Its Nature and Validity, Systemic Practice and Action Research. vol 11, no. 1, pp. 9-21. Online access at Springer.
Additional
Avison, D., Lau, F., Myers, M., and Nielsen, P. A. (1999): Action Research, Communications of the ACM. ISBN: Jan 1999, vol 42, no. 1, pp. 94-97. Available online.
Callén, B., Doménech, M., López, D. & Tirado, F. (2009): Telecare research. (Cosmo)politicizing metodology, ALTER, European Journal of Disability Research 3 (2009), pp. 110-122. . Online access.
Davison, R. , Martinsons, M. G. and Kock, N. (2004): Principles of canonical action research. Information Systems Journal, 14: 65-86.
Foth, M. (2006): Network action research. Action Research 2006 4:205: Sage. . Online access.
Mumford (2006) The story of socio‐technical design: reflections on its successes, failures and potential, Information Systems Journal, 16: 317-342.
Sykes, C. & Treleaven (2009): Critical action research and organizational ethnography. In Ybema, S., Yanow, D., Wels, H. & Kamsteeg, F. (edt.): Organizational Ethnography. Studying Complexities of Everyday Life.. Sage, Chap. 11, pp. 215-230. ISBN: 978-1-84787-046-9.
Research Methods in Design Projects
Frayling, Christopher (1994): Research in Art and Design, Royal College of Art Research Papers, Vol 1, No 1, 1993/4, Royal College of Art, London. Available online.
Gaver, W (2012): What should we expect from research through design?, CHI'12, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pages 937-946
Guri Verne and Tone Bratteteig (2018) Inquiry when doing research and design: wearing two hats, Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal - IxD&A, N.38, 2018, pp. 89 - 106.
Additional
Blythe, M. (2014) Research Through Design Fiction: Narrative in Real and Imaginary Abstracts. CHI 2014, ACM: 703-712.
Halln?s, L. (X) Outline of a general artistic design research program, Manuscript, The Swedish School of Textiles, Univesrity of Bor?s
H??k, K. and L?wgren, J. (2012): Strong Concepts: Intermediate-Level Knowledge in Interaction Design Research, ACM ToCHI 19 (3): 23:1-18.
Zimmerman, J. and Forlizzi, J. (2014) Research Through Design in HCI, Olson, J.S. and Kellogg, W.A. (eds): Ways of Knowing in HCI, Springer: 167-189.
Zimmerman, J., Forlizzi, J. and Evenson, S. (2007) Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI, Proc. CHI’07, ACM: 493-502.
Analysis - and writing it up
S?rensen, C. (revised version of 2002): This is Not an Article - just some food for thought on how to write one, Working Paper. Department of Information Systems, The London School of Economics and Political Science. No. 121. Available online.
Additional from Diana?s lecture
Braun, Virginia, and Victoria Clarke. 2006. “Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology.” Qualitative Research in Psychology 3 (2): 77–101. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oa.
Malterud, Kirsti. 2012. “Systematic Text Condensation: A Strategy for Qualitative Analysis.” Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 40 (8): 795–805. https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494812465030.
U. H. Graneheim and B. Lundman, “Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness,” Nurse Educ. Today, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 105–112, Feb. 2004.
Labonté, Ronald. 2011. “Reflections on Stories and a Story/Dialogue Method in Health Research.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 14 (2): 153–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2010.492131
Beck, Jordan, and Erik Stolterman. 2016. “Examining Practical, Everyday Theory Use in Design Research.” She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 2 (2): 125–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.01.010.
Saplacan, Diana & Herstad, Jo (2019). An Explorative Study on Motion as Feedback: Using Semi-Autonomous Robots in Domestic Settings. International Journal on Advances in Software. ISSN 1942-2628. 12(1&2), p. 68- 90.
Saplacan, D. (2020). Cross-Use of Digital Learning Environments in Higher Education: A Conceptual Analysis Grounded in Common Information Spaces. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI), ISSN 2308-4138, p. 272-281.
Saplacan, D., Herstad, J., Pajalic, Z. (2020). An analysis of independent living elderly’s (≥65 years) views on robots and welfare technology – A descriptive study from the Norwegian context, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI), ISSN 2308-4138, p. 199-208.
Saplacan, D., Herstad, J, Pajalic, Z. (2020, in review). Use of Multiple Digital Learning Environments: A Study About Fragmented Information Awareness. Submitted to Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal, nr. 43, Special Issue, ISSN 1826-9745
Additional
Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I. and Shaw, L. L. (1995): Processing Fieldnotes: Coding and Memoing, In Emerson, Fretz and Shaw Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chap. 6, pp. 142-168. The University of Chicago Press. ADDITIONAL.
van Maanen, J. (1995): Style As Theory, Organization Science, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 133- 143.
van Maanen, M. (2006): Writing Qualitatively, or the Demands of Writing, QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH, Vol. 16 No. 5, p. 713-722
Nygaard, L. (2017): Writing your master's thesis : From A to Zen. Los Angeles, Calif: SAGE Publications.
Films
Bent Hamer (2003): "Salmer fra Kj?kkenet". SF Norge AS. English title: " Kitchen Stories". Available at the library.
Even more resources... if you are interested in reading more
Amit, A. (edt.) (2005): Constructing the Field. Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World, Routledge.
Clarke, A. E. (2005): Situated Analysis. Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Sage
Denzin, N. K. & Lincon, Y. S. (eds.) (2005): The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage Publications.
Guimar?es Jr, M. J. L. (2005): Doing Anthropology in Cyberspace: Fieldwork Boundaries and Social Environments, In Hine (edt) Virtual Methods. Issues in Social research on the Internet. Berg, pp. 141-156. Available online.
Hammersly, M. and Atkinson, P. (1987): Feltmetodikk. Grundlaget for feltarbeid og feltforskning, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.
Heath, C., Hindmarsh, J., & Luff, P.: Video in Qualitative Research. Analysing Social Interaction in Everyday Life, 2011. Sage.
Hylland Eriksen, T. (2003): Hva er Sosialantropologi, Universitetsforlaget.
Kvale, S. (1996): InterViews. An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing, Sage Publications.
Latour, B. (1987): Science in Action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society, Harvard University Press.
Madden, R., (2010): Being Ethnographic. A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography, Sage
Nardi, B.A., My Life as a Night Elf Priest. An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft, The University of Michigan Press, 2010
Sanjek, R. (edt.) (1990): Fieldnotes. The Makings of Anthropolgy, Cornell University Press.
Smith, K. : How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum, 2008. Penguin Group Inc.
Silverman, D. (2005): Doing Qualitative Research, Sage Publications.
Stake, R. E. (2010) Qualitative Research: studying how things work, New York, The Guilford Press.
Thagaard, T. (1998): Systematikk og innlevelse. En innf?ring i kvalitativ metode, Fagboglaget.