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AO. newsletter for internal team comms

AO: Internal team information circulation: “ART (global North partner) regularly produces newsletters in an effort to introduce partners to each other, and to keep everyone updated on...Read more

TECHNO: (How) are technological infrastructures said to shape, enable and constrain collaboration at this stage of the research process?
Jentsch, Birgit, and Catherine Pilley. 2003. “Research Relationships between the South and the North: Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters?” Social Science & Medicine (1982) 57 (10): 1957–67.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. upfront collaborators who discuss what is wrong

  • AO: Analysts credited their collaborators “substantial experience in Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques and their willingness to utilise PRA” to make the main research

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NANO: What traits does the analyst believe make a good collaborator? Is the analyst interested in how the collaboration stabilizes or how it fails or shifts?
Jentsch, Birgit, and Catherine Pilley. 2003. “Research Relationships between the South and the North: Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters?” Social Science & Medicine (1982) 57 (10): 1957–67.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data
Halpern, Megan K., Ingrid Erickson, Laura Forlano, and Geri K. Gay. “Designing Collaboration: Comparing Cases Exploring Cultural Probes as Boundary-Negotiating Objects,” 1093. ACM Press, 2013.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the use of cultural probes as a method for fostering collaboration within groups of diverse experts working on creative projects. Using two case examples, we show that probes—short, oblique, and at times whimsical sets of activity prompts—have boundary object...Read more

AO. missing meso.

AO: The authors do not discuss power relations at all.Read more

MESO: (How) are power relations said to shape the dynamics of collaboration at this research stage? What organizations are said to shape collaborations?
Halabi, Ammar, Basile Zimmermann, and Michele Courant. 2013. “Participate, Collaborate, and Decide: Defining Design Problems in a Syrian Community.” In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on ICTD, 49–52. ICTD ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. elites (and non-elites?)

AO: Binaries and metaphors are not used explicitly but in naming a reconstitution of anthropology towards “elites,” the analysts are also implying the opposite of elites (non-elites)...Read more

TEXT: What binaries or metaphors are used within this artifact?
Holmes, Douglas R., and George E. Marcus. 2008. “Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter.” Collaborative Anthropologies 1 (1): 81–101.
Analyzing Representations of "Local Knowledge" in Tech DevelopmentDecolonizing the UniversityQuerying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. collaboration as synonymous with communication.

  • AO: The authors write: they are“finding the design problem through participation with the community” but it is very unclear what exactly they are doing that is “collaborative” other

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MICRO: What did the analyst choose to describe as collaboration?
Halabi, Ammar, Basile Zimmermann, and Michele Courant. 2013. “Participate, Collaborate, and Decide: Defining Design Problems in a Syrian Community.” In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on ICTD, 49–52. ICTD ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. missing macro

AO: not discussed at all. It is unclear how the interlocutors are interested in the collaboration.Read more

MACRO: (How) are economic and legal infrastructures said to shape, enable and constrain collaboration at this stage of the research process? What incentives and benefits are said to be part of collaboration at this stage of the research process?
Halabi, Ammar, Basile Zimmermann, and Michele Courant. 2013. “Participate, Collaborate, and Decide: Defining Design Problems in a Syrian Community.” In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on ICTD, 49–52. ICTD ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. missing eco

  • AO: The analysts do not discuss material infrastructures.

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ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?
Holmes, Douglas R., and George E. Marcus. 2008. “Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter.” Collaborative Anthropologies 1 (1): 81–101.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. Post-structuralist work + complicity

  • AO: The analysts use post-structuralist work to aruge that the current imaginary of the “subject as informant” does not stand given the desire for the epistemic partner to perform an

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META: What discourses does the analyst consider/leverage to characterize/theorize collaboration at this research stage? (How) are histories and contextual factors pointed to as shaping the collaborations described here at this research stage?
Holmes, Douglas R., and George E. Marcus. 2008. “Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter.” Collaborative Anthropologies 1 (1): 81–101.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. missing discussion of material constraints

  • AO: No discussion of material constraints.

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ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?
Hall, Kara L., Annie X. Feng, Richard P. Moser, Daniel Stokols, and Brandie K. Taylor. 2008. “Moving the Science of Team Science Forward: Collaboration and Creativity.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, The Science of Team Science, 35 .
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. influence of behavioral scientists

  • AO: the analysts noted that conceptualization and investigation around interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration processes and outcomes has been led by behavioral

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EPISTEMIC CULTURES: (How) are epistemic cultures said to shape collaboration at this stage of the research process?
Hall, Kara L., Annie X. Feng, Richard P. Moser, Daniel Stokols, and Brandie K. Taylor. 2008. “Moving the Science of Team Science Forward: Collaboration and Creativity.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, The Science of Team Science, 35 .
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. research collection of online data.

  • AO: Less about data practices in the collaboration and more about how the research team collected their data of what was going on online: “We are taking screenshots of Facebook

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DATA: How does the analyst point to the data practices in the collaboration? Or to the data produced about the collaboration? Where does that data travel?
Halabi, Ammar, Basile Zimmermann, and Michele Courant. 2013. “Participate, Collaborate, and Decide: Defining Design Problems in a Syrian Community.” In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on ICTD, 49–52. ICTD ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data
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