The course book has been complemented with articles/chapters focusing on relevant debates, approaches and examples from the informatics field, mainly Information Systems Research, HCI, and Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW).
Detailed knowledge (beyond what is covered in the lectures) of the readings, marked as ADDITIONAL, will not be required for the exam; they are meant as suggestions for further reading.
Course book
Crang and Cook (2007): Doing Ethnographies, Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0-7619-4446-1.
Some online book chapters
List of mandatory and additional items.
Articles and Book Chapters
Introduction to the course and qualitative research
ADDITIONAL:
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.
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.
Additional
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. ADDITIONAL
Gregor, S. (2006): The Nature of Theory in Information Systems. MIS Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 611-642. Available online. 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. Fulltext. ADDITIONAL
Silverman, D. (1998): Qualitative Research: meaning or practices, Info Systems J, 8, pp- 3-20. Available online. ADDITIONAL.
Myers, H. K. & Avison, M. D. (1998): An Introduction to Qualitative Research in Information Systems, Chap. 1 in Myers & Avison (eds) Qualitative Research in Information Systems. Sage. ADDITIONAL.
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. ADDITIONAL.
Conducting fieldwork. Generating material part 1 and 2
Additional
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 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. ADDITIONAL
Mancini, C., Rogers, Y., Bandara, A., Coe, T., Jedrzejczyk, L., Joinson, A., Proce, B., Tomas, K., Nuseibeh, B. (2010): Contravision: Exploring users' reactions to futuristic technology.: ACM. Online access. ADDITIONAL.
Button, G. & Sharrock, W. (2009): Making Observations. Chap. 7 in "Studies of Work and the Workplace in HCI. Concepts and Techniques". pp. 83-87. ADDITIONAL.
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. ADDITIONAL.
Boehner, K., Graver, W. and Boucher, A. (2012): Probes. In Lury, C. & Wakeford, N. (2012): Inventive Methods: The happening of the social. Routledge, pp. 185-201. ADDITIONAL.
Graver, B., Dunne, T. and Pacenti, E. (1999) Cultural Probes: Cultural Probes, In Interactions. Jan+Feb. 1999, pp. 21-29. Available online. ADDITIONAL.
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. ADDITIONAL.
Harper, D. (2005): What’s New Visually? In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (eds.) 2005: The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. Chap. 29, pp. 747-762. ADDITIONAL.
Suchman, L. A. and Trigg, R.H. (1991): Understanding Practice: video as a medium for reflection and design, In Greenbaum, J. and Kyng, M. (eds.) Design at work: cooperative design of computer systems. ADDITIONAL.
Ethics + privacy in research online and offline
Iachello, G. and Hong, J. (2007): Chapter 3 (p. 18-42) in End-User Privacy in Human-Computer Interaction. Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-137. Available online.
Markham, A. N. (2005): The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (eds.) (2005): The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. Chap. 31, pp. 793-820.
Additional
Christians, C. G. (2005): Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (eds.) (2005): The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. Chap. 6, pp.139-164. ADDITIONAL.
Ethnography, positioning the researcher
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.
Additional
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. ADDITIONAL.
Randall, D., Harper, R. & Rouncefield, M. (2007): Chap. 6 "Ethnography and How to Do It". In Fieldwork for Design. Springer. pp. 169-197. Available online. ADDITIONAL
Wasson, C. (2000): Ethnography in the field of design. Human Organization 59.4. Available online ADDITIONAL
Randall, D., Harper, R. & Rouncefield, M. (2007): Fieldwork for Design. Theory and Practice., Springer. Chap. 9 "Into the Home" pp. 255-287. Online access. ADDITIONAL
Shilton, K. (2012): Values Levers: Building Ethics in Design. Science, Technology, & Human Values. Published online 23 April 2012: Sage. Online access. ADDITIONAL
Star, S. L. (1999): The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 377-391. Online access. 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. ADDITIONAL
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. ADDITIONAL.
Wolcott, H. F. (2010): : Ethnography Lessons. A primer, Left Coast Press, California. Chap. 5 "Searching for Ethnography's Essence", pp. 86-111. ISBN: 978-1-59874-581-8. ADDITIONAL.
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. ADDITIONAL.
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. ADDITIONAL.
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. ADDITIONAL.
Schultze, U. (2002): A Confessional Account of an Ethnography about Knowledge Work, MIS Quarterly. Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3- 41. ADDITIONAL.
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.
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. ADDITIONAL. Online access.
Walsham, G. (2006): Doing interpretive research, European Journal of Information Systems, 15, pp. 320-330. Available online. ADDITIONAL.
Walsham, G. (2002): Interpretive Case Study in IS Research, Sage. Ch 6 in Myers and Avison (eds) "Qualitative Research in Information Systems". ADDITIONAL.
Geertz, C. (1972): Deep play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, In Geertz, C. The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books. ADDITIONAL.
Lee, A. and Baskerville, R. (2003): Generalizing Generalizability, Information Systems Research. Vol 14, no 3, pp. 221-243. Available online. ADDITIONAL.
Action Research
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.
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
Foth, M. (2006): Network action research. Action Research 2006 4:205: Sage. ADDITIONAL. Online access.
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. ADDITIONAL. Online access.
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. ADDITIONAL.
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. ADDITIONAL.
Grounded Theory. Analyzing data + quality in qualitative research
White, J. & Weatherall, A. (2000): A Grounded Theory Analysis of Older Adults and Information Technology. Educational Gerontology, 26:4, pp. 371-386. Online access
Mills, J., Bonner, A. & Francis K. (2006): The Development of Constructivist Grounded Theory. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5(1). Online access.
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.
Additional
Thoresen, K. (1999): Appendix D: Grounded Theory, PhD Thesis Computer Use. University of Oslo, Department of Informatics. 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.
Social Media
Reyes, L. & Finken, S. (2012): : Social Media as a new platform for Participatory Design. In Proc. of PDC 2012. Roskilde Denmark, Online access.
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.
Additional
Leander, K. M. & Mckim, K. K. (2003): 'Tracing the Everyday 'Sitings' of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaption of ethnography across online and offline spaces. In Education, Communication & Information, 3:2, pp. 211-240., Available online. ADDITIONAL.
Brown, B. & M. Bell (2004): CSCW at play: 'There' as a collaborative virtual environment, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 350–359. Available online. ADDITIONAL.
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.
Films
Bent Hamer (2003): "Salmer fra Kj?kkenet". SF Norge AS. English title: " Kitchen Stories". Available at the library.
Stuart Hall: Representation and the media. Media Education Foundation.
Even more resources... if you are interested in reading more
Madden, R., (2010): Being Ethnographic. A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography, Sage
Clarke, A. E. (2005): Situated Analysis. Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Sage
Smith, K. : How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum, 2008. Penguin Group Inc..
Heath, C., Hindmarsh, J., & Luff, P.: Video in Qualitative Research. Analysing Social Interaction in Everyday Life, 2011. Sage.
Amit, A. (edt.) (2005): Constructing the Field. Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World, Routledge.
Sanjek, R. (edt.) (1990): Fieldnotes. The Makings of Anthropolgy, Cornell University Press.
Denzin, N. K. & Lincon, Y. S. (eds.) (2005): The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage Publications.
Latour, B. (1987): Science in Action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society, Harvard University Press.
Thagaard, T. (1998): Systematikk og innlevelse. En innf?ring i kvalitativ metode, Fagboglaget.
Kvale, S. (1996): InterViews. An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing, Sage Publications.
Hammersly, M. and Atkinson, P. (1987): Feltmetodikk. Grundlaget for feltarbeid og feltforskning, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.
Silverman, D. (2005): Doing Qualitative Research, Sage Publications.
Hylland Eriksen, T. (2003): Hva er Sosialantropologi, Universitetsforlaget.