Research Design

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. collaboration needed and expected in "globalized world" but questions of sustainability

AO: The analysts mention that “in a globalized world” demands for cross-national collaborations grow. They also note decrease in funding and a need to coordinate different funding

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?

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. 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. 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. shared value system.

AO: “Participation” is generally promoted as a main tenet in conducting the design of ICT for development” (49)
AO: shared value system (“Members of CTVC

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?

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. Western funders

AO: Western funding organizations are said to shape collaborations because they often give funding (and power) to western researchers.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?

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. missing eco

AO: The analysts do not discuss material infrastructures.

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. deferral and critical consciousness

AO: A researcher who operates under the methodological premise of deferral allows for generative different collaborative confirgurations of ethnography (82).

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?

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. unequal funding

AO: unequal funding (Northern funding is much more prolific and then sets the agenda for the project).Read more

ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?

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. intellectual partners - "found reflexive subjects"

AO: A discursive risk in this analysis is the assumption of intellectual partners among “elite” communities. I think the example of “professionalized” Kibera research subjects who

DISCURSIVE RISKS: What are the epistemic assumptions of the analyst of 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. Some non-academic groups as epistemic partners in collaborative ethnography

AO: The analysts argue that within some communities (they name the Central bank of Chile or an environmental NGO in Costa Rica or an alternative art space in Tokyo), there are

EPISTEMIC CULTURES: (How) are epistemic cultures said to shape collaboration at this stage of the research process?

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

Nye, Coleman, Fortun, Mike and Smith, Trudi Lynn. "Manual: Collaborating on the Fly (in Ten Easy Steps!)." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1172-manual-collaborating-on-the-fly-in-ten-easy…

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