Paper session on April 9th

On Tuesday's lecture we will organize a paper discussion relevant for your exam preparations. We have chosen three papers for you to read and prepare notes for discussion (see below). 

When reading and preparing your notes, reflect on how the authors discuss their methodologies - what is similar and dissimilar, and how they could have chosen different. Consider how the authors gain access to the communities they are researching, and how this affect choice of methodology.

• 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.
• 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
• Bardzell, S., Bardzell, J., Pace, T., Reed, K. (2008): Blissfully Productive: Grouping and Cooperation in World of Warcraft Instance Runs, CSCW'08, San Diego, California, USA

-- Johanne & Rebekka