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 EXTRA will not be required for the exam; they are meant as suggestions for further reading in a topic you want to dig into.
Articles
Introduction to qualitative research
MANDATORY READING
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EXTRA READING
Kalleberg, R. (1992) A constructive Turn in Sociology, ISO Rapportserie, Report Nr. 19, Department of Sociology, UiO
Kalleberg, R. (2002) 欧洲杯在线买球_欧洲杯投注网站推荐@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 methods, methodologies and research paradigms
MANDATORY READING
Crang & Cook (2007): Doing Ethnographies, Chapter 1.
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 (2006): Doing interpretive research, European Journal of Information Systems, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp 320–330.
EXTRA READING
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.
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.
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.
Myers, M. (2019). Qualitative research in business & management (3rd ed.). Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.
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.
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.
Conducting fieldwork. Generating material
MANDATORY READING
Crang & Cook (2007): Doing Ethnographies, Chapter 4, 5, 7.
EXTRA READING
Broom A, Meurk C, Adams J, Sibbritt D. (2014) Networks of knowledge or just old wives’ tales?: A diary-based analysis of women’s self-care practices and everyday lay expertise. Health;18(4):335-351. doi:10.1177/1363459313497610
Cohen Miller, A. S., Schnackenberg, H., & Demers, D. (2020). Rigid Flexibility: Seeing the Opportunities in “Failed” Qualitative Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920963782, (about “failing” within a qualitative research study)
Crang and Cook (2007): Doing Ethnographies, "Chapter 6: Focus groups", Sage Publications.
Derks, D. and Bakker, A.B. (2014), Smartphone Use and Daily Recovery. Applied Psychology, 63: 411-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2012.00530.x
Edwards, R. & Holland J., (2013) What is Qualitative Interviewing?, London: Bloomsbury, . 127 pp.
Fujii, Lee Ann J., (2015) Five stories of accidental ethnography: turning unplanned moments in the field into data. Qualitative Research 15(4):525-539.
Graver, B., Dunne, T. and Pacenti, E. (1999) Cultural Probes: Cultural Probes, In Interactions. Jan+Feb. 1999, pp. 21-29. Available online.
Hermanowicz, J.C. The Great Interview: 25 Strategies for Studying People in Bed. Qualitative Sociology 25, 479–499 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021062932081
Lobe, B., Morgan, D., & Hoffman, K. A. (2020). Qualitative Data Collection in an Era of Social Distancing. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19.
Randall, Dave, Harper, Richard, Rouncefield, Mark (2007) Fieldwork for Design. Theory and Practice, CSCW series, Springer
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, try also https://fullresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/jmcintosh48787/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/151/2022/10/JaneFultonSuri_Poetic-Observation-What-Designers-Make-of-What-They-See_e028bf3a4c3bfa8f64dae595030d6a75-1.pdf
Case Studies
MANDATORY READING
Flyvbjerg, Bent, Case Study (2011). In: Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds., The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 301-316, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2278194
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".
EXTRA READING
Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont (2006) Rescuing narrative from qualitative research, Narrative Inquiry 16:1, 164–172, issn 1387–6740
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.
Fearon, D., Hughes, S., & Brearley, S. G. (2021). Constructivist Stakian Multicase Study: Methodological Issues Encountered in Cross-Cultural Palliative Care Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211015075
Geertz, C. (1972): Deep play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, In Geertz, C. The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books
Lauckner, H., Paterson, M., & Krupa, T. (2012). Using Constructivist Case Study Methodology to Understand Community Development Processes: Proposed Methodological Questions to Guide the Research Process.The Qualitative Report,
17(13), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1790
Lee, A. and Baskerville, R. (2003): Generalizing Generalizability, Information Systems Research. Vol 14, no 3, pp. 221-243.
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.
Ethnography
MANDATORY READING
Murphey, K. M. & Marcus, G. E. (2013): Epilogue: Ethnography and Design, Ethnography 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.
EXTRA READING
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.
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.
Geirbo, Hanne C. (2018) Knowing Through Relations. On the Epistemology and Methodology of Being a Reflexive Insider, Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal - IxD&A, N.38, 2018, pp. 107 - 123
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.
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.
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
Movie
Kitchen Stories
The ifi library has a DVD you can watch if you missed the lecture or want to see again.
Grounded theory
MANDATORY READING
Urquhart, Cathy and Fernandez, Walter, "Grounded Theory Method: The Researcher as Blank Slate and Other Myths" (2006). ICIS 2006 Proceedings. 31.
EXTRA READING
Birks, M., Hoare, K., & Mills, J. (2019). Grounded Theory: The FAQs. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919882535
Chun Tie, Y., Birks, M., & Francis, K. (2019). Grounded theory research: A design framework for novice researchers. SAGE Open Medicine.
David F Birks, Walter Fernandez, Natalia Levina & Syed Nasirin (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.
Mills, J., Bonner, A. & Francis K. (2006): The Development of Constructivist Grounded Theory. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5(1). Online access.
Thoresen, K. (1999): Appendix D: Grounded Theory, PhD Thesis: Computer Use. University of Oslo, Department of Informatics.
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
Privacy and NSD
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EXTRA READING
Vike, H., & Furst, E. (2020). 欧洲杯在线买球_欧洲杯投注网站推荐@setikk og forskningens frihet: Utfordringer for antropologifaget (Research ethics and freedom of research: challenges for anthropology). Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 31(3), 165-176.
Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Peter I. Crawford, Halvard Vike, & Elisabeth L’orange Fürst. (2020). Redaksjonelt. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 31(3), 163-164.
Action Research
MANDATORY READING
Davison, R., Martinsons, M.G. and Kock, N. (2004), Principles of canonical action research. Information Systems Journal, 14: 65-86.
Checkland, P., and Holwell, S. (1998): Action Research: Its Nature and Validity, Systemic Practice and Action Research. vol 11, no. 1, pp. 9-21.
EXTRA READING
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.
Davison, R., Martinsons, M., & Ou, C. (2012). The Roles of Theory in Canonical Action Research. MIS Quarterly, 36(3), 763-786. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
Davison, Robert M.; Martinsons, Maris G.; and Malaurent, Julien (2021) "Research Perspectives: Improving Action Research by Integrating Methods," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22(3).
Foth, M. (2006): Network action research. Action Research 2006 4:205: Sage. Online access.
Mathiassen, Lars and Nielsen, Peter Axel (2008) "Engaged Scholarship in IS Research," Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Vol. 20 : Iss. 2 , Article 1.
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.
Design Research
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.
Verne, Guri 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.
EXTRA READING
Blythe, M. (2014) Research Through Design Fiction: Narrative in Real and Imaginary Abstracts. CHI 2014, ACM: 703-712.
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
H??k, K. and L?wgren, J. (2012): Strong Concepts: Intermediate-Level Knowledge in Interaction Design Research, ACM ToCHI 19 (3): 23:1-18.
William Odom, Richard Banks, David Kirk, Richard Harper, Si?n Lindley, and Abigail Sellen. 2012. Technology heirlooms? considerations for passing down and inheriting digital materials. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 337–346. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2207723
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
Crang & Cook (2007), chapters 8, 9.
Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2012). Thematic analysis. In H. Cooper (Ed.), APA handbook of research methods in psychology: Vol. 2: Research designs (pp. 57–71).
ADDITIONAL reading
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.
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.
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, John (1995): Style As Theory, Organization Science, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 133- 143.
van Manen, Max (2006): Writing Qualitatively, or the Demands of Writing, QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH, Vol. 16 No. 5, p. 713-722
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.
Nygaard, L. (2017): Writing your master's thesis : From A to Zen. Los Angeles, Calif: SAGE Publications.
Silvia, Paul J., (2007) How to Write a Lot. A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, APA Life Tools, Washington DC
SANJEK, R. (Ed.). (1990). Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Cornell University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv4124m
S?rensen, C. 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.
Film
Bent Hamer (2003): "Salmer fra Kj?kkenet". SF Norge AS.
English title: " Kitchen Stories". A DVD is available at the library.