INFO 272
Qualitative Research Methods

Fall 2009

Extended qualitative methods bibliography

by Bob Bell Jr. (GSI) and Prof. Jenna Burrell

Qualitative/Quantitative Research (debates and efforts to bridge between)

Bardhan, P. and I. Ray (2006). "Methodological Approaches to the Question of the Commons." Economic Development and Social Change54: 655-676. – bridging between economics and anthropology

Burrell, J. and K. Toyama (2009). "What Constitutes Good ICTD Research?" Information Technology and International Development5(3): 82-94. – different disciplinary and methodological approaches to the study of the link between technology and socio-economic development

Lamont, M. and P. White (2009). "Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research." from

Ragin, C. C., J. Nagel, et al. (2004). "Report of the workshop on scientific foundations of qualitative research." from

and the response by

Becker, H. S. (2009). "How to Find Out How to Do Qualitative Research." from

General Qualitative Research / Epistemology / Evaluation and Standards

Bauer, M. and B. Aarts (2000). Corpus Construction: a Principle for Qualitative Data Collection. Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound. M. Bauer and G. Gaskell. London, Sage: 19-37.

Becker, H. S. (1996). The Epistemology of Qualitative Research. Essays on Ethnography and Human Development. R. Jessor, A. Colby and R. Schweder. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 53-71.

Burrell, J. and K. Toyama (2009). "What Constitutes Good ICTD Research?" Information Technology and International Development5(3): 82-94.

Gaskell, G. and M. Bauer (2000). Towards Public Accountability: beyond sampling, reliability and validity. Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound. M. Bauer and G. Gaskell. London, Sage: 336-350.

Haraway, D. (1991). Situated Knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: the reinvention of nature. D. Haraway. London, Free Association Books: 183-201.

Kennedy, M. (1979). "Generalizing from a Single Case Study." Evaluation Review3(4): 661-678.

Lofland, J. and L. H. Lofland (1995). Analyzing Social Settings: a guide to qualitative observation and analysis. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Ethics

Alcoff, L. M. (1995). The Problem of Speaking for Others. Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity. J. Roof and R. Wiegman. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press: 95-119.

Finch, J. (1984). 'It's Great to Have Someone to Talk to': Ethics and Politics of Interviewing Women. Social Researching: Politics, Problems, Practice. C. Bell and H. Roberts. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 166-180.

Madison, D. S. (2005). Critical Ethnography: methods, ethics, and performance. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage.

Ethnography

(2006). Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, Portland, OR.

(2007). Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, Keystone, CO.

Atkinson, P., A. Coffey, et al., Eds. (2001). Handbook of Ethnography. London, Sage Publications.

Clifford, J. (1986). Introduction: Partial Truths. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. J. Clifford and G. Marcus. Berkeley, University of California Press: 1-26.

Clifford, J. (1988). On Ethnographic Authority. The predicament of culture: Twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art. J. Clifford. Cambridge, Mass., HarvardUniversity Press: 21-54.

Clifford, J. (1992). Travelling Cultures. Cultural Studies. L. Grossberg, C. Nelson and P. Treichler. New York, Routledge: 96-116.

Clifford, J. (1997). Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA, HarvardUniversity Press.

Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff (1992). Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder, CO, Westview Press.

Emerson, R. M., R. I. Fretz, et al. (2001). Participant Observation and Fieldnotes. Handbook of Ethnography. P. Atkinson, A. Coffey, S. Delamont, J. Lofland and L. Lofland. London, Sage Publications: 352-368.

Garfinkel, H. (1967). Studies in Ethnomethodology, Polity.

Geertz, C. (1975). The Interpretation of Cultures: selected essays. London, Hutchinson, Basic Books.

Geertz, C. (1975). Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. The Interpretation of Cultures: selected essays. C. Geertz. London, Hutchinson, Basic Books: 412-453.

Geertz, C. (1975). Thick Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture. The Interpretation of Cultures: selected essays. C. Geertz. London, Hutchinson, Basic Books: 3-30.

Jordan, B. and B. Dahl (2006). "Persuasive Encounters: Ethnography in the Corporation." Field Methods18(4): 359-381.

Kuwayama, T. (2003). "'Natives' as Dialogic Partners: Some Thoughts on Native Anthropology." Anthropology Today19(1): 8-13.

Loon, J. V. (2001). Ethnography: a critical turn in cultural studies. Handbook of Ethnography. P. Atkinson, A. Coffey, S. Delamont, J. Lofland and L. Lofland. London, Sage Publications: 273-284.

Madison, D. S. (2005). Critical Ethnography: methods, ethics, and performance. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage.

Marcus, G. (1998). Imagining the Whole: ethnography's contemporary efforts to situate itself. Ethnography Through Thick and Thin. G. Marcus. Princeton, NJ, PrincetonUniversity Press: 33-56.

Marcus, G. E. (1998). Ethnography Through Thick and Thin. Princeton, PrincetonUniversity Press.

Marcus, G. E. and M. M. J. Fischer (1986). Anthropology as Cultural Critique: an experimental moment in the human sciences. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press.

Moores, S. (1993). Interpreting Audiences: the ethnography of media consumption. London, Sage Publications.

Nader, L. (1972). Up the Anthropologist - Perspectives Gained from Studying Up. Reinventing Anthropology. D. H. Hymes. New York, Pantheon Books: 284-311.

Narayan, K. (1993). "How Native is a "Native" Anthropologist?" American Anthropologist95(3): 671-686.

Ohnuki-Tierney, E. (1984). ""Native" Anthropologists." American Ethnologist11(3): 584-586.

Olwig, K. F. and K. Hastrup, Eds. (1997). Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object. London and New York, Routledge.

Rosaldo, R. (1989). Culture and Truth: the remaking of social analysis. Boston, Beacon Press.

Thomas, J. (1993). Doing Critical Ethnography. London, Sage Publications.

Tilley, C. (2001). Ethnography and Material Culture. Handbook of Ethnography. P. Atkinson, A. Coffey, S. Delamont, J. Lofland and L. Lofland. London, Sage Publications: 258-272.

Virtual Ethnography/Research in Virtual Spaces

Bainbridge, W. S. (2007). "The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds." Science317: 472-476.

Carter, D. (2005). "Living in Virtual Communities: an ethnography of human relationships in cyberspace." Information, Communication and Society8(2): 148-167.

Eichhorn, K. (2001). "Sites Unseen: Ethnographic Research in a Textual Community." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education14(4): 565-578.

Gatson, S. and A. Zweernik (2004). "Ethnography Online: 'natives' practising and inscribing community." Qualitative Research4(2): 179-200.

Green, N. (1999). "Disrupting the Field: Virtual Reality Technologies and "Multisited" Ethnographic Methods." American Behavioral Scientist43(3): 409-421.

Hammersley, M. and P. Treseder (2007). "Identity as an Analytic Problem: who's who in 'pro-ana' websites?" Qualitative Research7(3): 283-300.

Heath, D., E. Koch, et al. (1999). "Nodes and Queries: Linking Locations in Networked Fields of Inquiry." American Behavioral Scientist43(3): 450-463.

Henriksen, D. L. (2002). "Locating Virtual Field Sites and a Dispersed Object of Research." Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems14(2): 31-45.

Hine, C. (2000). Virtual Ethnography. London, Sage.

Leander, K. and K. McKim (2003). "Tracing the Everyday 'Sitings' of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces." Education, Communication, and Information3(2): 211-240.

Lyman, P. and N. Wakeford (1999). "Introduction: Going into the Virtual Field." American Behavioral Scientist43(3): 359-376.

Markham, A. (1998). Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. London, Sage.

Paccagnella, L. (1997). "Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication3(1).

Rosen, D., J. Woelfol, et al. (2003). "Procedures for Analyses of Online Communities." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication8(4).

Ruhleder, K. (2000). "The Virtual Ethnographer: Fieldwork in Distributed Electronic Environments." Field Methods12(1): 3-17.

Taylor, T. L. (1999). "Life in Virtual Worlds: Plural Existence, Multimodalities, and Other Online Research Challenges." American Behavioral Scientist43(3): 436-449.

Ward, K. (1999). "Cyber-ethnography and the emergence of the virtually new community." Journal of Information Technology14(1): 95-105.

Williams, M. (2007). "Avatar Watching: participant observation in graphical online environments." Qualitative Research7(1): 5-24.

Wilson, B. (2006). "Ethnography, the Internet, and Youth Culture: Strategies for Examining Social Resistance and "Online-Offline" Relationships." Canadian Journal of Education29(1): 307-346.

Multi-sited Ethnography

Auge, M. (1995). Non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity. London; New York, Verso.

Burrell, J. (2009). "The Fieldsite as a Network: a strategy for locating ethnographic research." Field Methods21(2): 181-199.

Couldry, N. (2003). Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World. Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives. P. Murphy and M. Kraidy. New York and London, Routledge: 40-56.

Green, N. (1999). "Disrupting the Field: Virtual Reality Technologies and "Multisited" Ethnographic Methods." American Behavioral Scientist43(3): 409-421.

Hannerz, U. (1992). Cultural Complexity: studies in the social organization of meaning. New York, Chichester, ColumbiaUniversity Press.

Hannerz, U. (1992). The Global Ecumene as a Network of Networks. Conceptualizing Society. A. Kuper. London and New York, Routledge: 34-56.

Heath, D., E. Koch, et al. (1999). "Nodes and Queries: Linking Locations in Networked Fields of Inquiry." American Behavioral Scientist43(3): 450-463.

Howard, P. N. (2002). "Network Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organization: New Media, New Organizations, New Methods." New Media and Society4(4): 550-574.

Marcus, G. (1998). Ethnography in/of the World System: the emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Ethnography Through Thick and Thin. G. Marcus. Princeton, N.J., PrincetonUniversity Press: 79-104.

Marcus, G. (1998). Imagining the Whole: ethnography's contemporary efforts to situate itself. Ethnography Through Thick and Thin. G. Marcus. Princeton, NJ, PrincetonUniversity Press: 33-56.

Marcus, G. (1998). The Uses of Complicity in the Changing Mise-en-Scene of Anthropological Fieldwork. Ethnography Through Thick and Thin. G. Marcus. Princeton, Chichester, PrincetonUniversity Press: 105-131.

Fieldworker’s Confessionals

Barley, N. (1983). The Innocent Anthropologist: notes from a mud hut. London, BritishMuseum Publications.

Briggs, J. L. (1970). Never in anger : portrait of an Eskimo family. Cambridge, Mass., HarvardUniversity Press.

Action Research

Brydon-Miller, M., D. Greenwood, et al. (2003). "Why Action Research?" Action Research1(1): 9-28.

Fals-Borda, O. and M. A. Rahman (1991). Action and knowledge : breaking the monopoly with participatory action research. New York; London, Apex Press ; Intermediate Technology Publications.

Projective Techniques - Cultural Probes / Technology Probes

Boehner, K., J. Vertesi, et al. (2007). How HCI Interprets the Probes. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). San Jose, CA: 1077-1086.

Gaver, B., T. Dunne, et al. (1999). "Design: Cultural probes." interactions6(1): 21-29.

Gaver, W., A. Boucher, et al. (2004). "Cultural Probes and the Value of Uncertainty." interactions11(5): 53-56.

Hutchinson, H., W. Mackay, et al. (2003). Technology Probes: inspiring design for and with families. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 17-24.

Kearney, K. and A. Hyle (2004). "Drawing Out Emotions: the use of participant-produced drawings in qualitative inquiry." Qualitative Research4(3): 361-382.

Projective Techniques - Photoelicitation

Clark-IbaNez, M. (2004). "Framing the Social World with Photo-Elicitation Interviews." American Behavioral Scientist47(12): 1507-1527.

Dodman, D. R. (2003). "Shooting in the City: an autophotographic exploration of the urban environment in Kingston, Jamaica." Area35(3): 293-304.

Harper, D. (2002). "Talking about Pictures: a case for photo elicitation." Visual Studies17(1): 13-26.

Rose, G. (2001). photo-elicitation chapter... Visual Methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials. G. Rose. London, Sage.

Samuels, J. (2004). "Breaking the Ethnographer's Frames: Reflections on the Use of Photo Elicitation in Understanding Sri Lankan Monastic Culture." American Behavioral Scientist47(12): 1528-1550.

Young, L. and H. Barrett (2001). "Adapting Visual Methods: action research with Kampala street children." Area33(2): 141-152.

Other Projective/Interventionist Techniques

Csikszentmihalyi, M., R. Larson, et al. (1977). "The Ecology of Adolescent Activity and Experience." Journal of Youth and Adolescence6(3): 281-294.

Kaye, J. J., J. Vertesi, et al. (2006). To Have and To Hold: Exploring the Personal Archive. Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Larson, R. (1990). "The Solitary Side of Life: an examination of the time people spend alone from childhood to old age." Developmental Review10: 155-183.

Palen, L. and M. Salzman (2002). Voice-Mail Diary Studies for Naturalistic Data Capture under Mobile Conditions. Computer-Supported Cooperate Work. New York, NY: 87-95.

Analysis - Grounded Theory

Glaser, B. G. and A. L. Strauss (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: strategies for qualitative research. Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co.

Strauss, A. L. and J. M. Corbin (1990). Basics of Qualitative Research: grounded theory procedures and techniques. Newbury Park, CA, Sage Publications.

Analysis - Text & Document Analysis

Slater, D. (1998). Analysing Cultural Objects: content analysis and semiotics. Researching Society and Culture. C. Seale. London, Sage Publications: 233-244.

Analysis - Image Analysis

Cottle, S. (1998). Analysing Visuals: Still and Moving Images. Mass Communication Research Methods. A. Hansen, S. Cottle, R. Negrine and C. Newbold. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: 189-224.

Analysis - Discourse Analysis

Foucault, M. (1991). Questions of Method. The Foucault Effect: studies in governmentality. G. Burchell, C. Gordon and P. Miller. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Foucault, M. (1991). Politics and the Study of Discourse. The Foucault Effect: studies in governmentality. G. Burchell, C. Gordon and P. Miller. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Gill, R. (1996). Discourse Analysis: practical implementation. Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Psychology and the Social Sciences. J. T. E. Richardson. Oxford, BPS Blackwell: 141-156.

Rose, G. (2001). Discourse Analysis. Visual Methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials. G. Rose. London, Sage.

Tonkiss, F. (1998). Analysing Discourse. Researching Society and Culture. C. Seale. London, Sage Publications: 245-260.

Design Research

Dourish, P. (2006). Implications for Design. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, Quebec, Association of Computing Machinery.

Lewis, S., M. Mateas, et al. (1996). "Ethnographic Data for Product Development: A Collaborative Process." interactions3(6): 52-69.

Salvador, T., G. Bell, et al. (1999). "Design Ethnography." Design Management Journal10(4): 35-41.

Sohn, T., K. Li, et al. (2008). A Diary Study of Mobile Information Needs. CHI. Florence, Italy.

Suchman, L., J. Blomberg, et al. (1999). "Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practices." American Behavioral Scientist43(3): 392-408.

Interviewing

Briggs, C. (2007). "Anthropology, Interviewing, and Communicability in Contemporary Society." Current Anthropology48(4): 551-580.

Clark-IbaNez, M. (2004). "Framing the Social World with Photo-Elicitation Interviews." American Behavioral Scientist47(12): 1507-1527.

Finch, J. (1984). 'It's Great to Have Someone to Talk to': Ethics and Politics of Interviewing Women. Social Researching: Politics, Problems, Practice. C. Bell and H. Roberts. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 166-180.

Kvale, S. (1996). InterViews: an introduction to qualitative research interviewing. London, Sage.

Odendahl, T. and A. M. Shaw (2002). "Interviewing Elites." 299-316.

Suchman, L. and B. Jordan (1990). "Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews." Journal of the American Statistical Association85(409): 232-241.

Thomas, R. J. (1995). Interviewing Important People in Big Companies: 3-17.

Weiss, R. S. (1994). Learning from Strangers: the art and method of qualitative interview studies. New York, Free Press.

Winchatz, M. (2006). "Fieldworker or Foreigner? Ethnographic Interviewing in Nonnative Languages." Field Methods18(1): 83-97.