--Apologies for any cross posting--
FIRST CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
Workshop on Mixed Methods for Studying Interactions in Networked
Environments
In conjunction with the
14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW
2015), Oslo, Norway, September 19-23
URL: https://mixedmethodsecscw.wordpress.com/
INTRODUCTION
Researchers in CSCW have for a long time used traditional methods for
data collection and analysis (e.g. ethnography) where a focus has been
to develop an interdisciplinary research approach with methods from the
social sciences to understand work and to inform the design of computer
supported cooperative work. More recently, the CSCW community has become
increasingly interested in social and crowd computing, to understand how
certain phenomena play out at scale, often addressed by using social
network analysis (SNA). This workshop will heighten the awareness of the
need for more empirical studies of social and crowd computing using
mixed methods in CSCW for better grounding of network level (e.g. SNA)
data. It is the combination of different methods where one is
quantitative and the other qualitative that is the focus of the
workshop.
This is also a controversial theme and thus invites different positions
as topics for discussion, which will be based on the participants’
experiences with mixed methods research from ongoing and past projects.
Guiding questions can include but are not limited to:
-- What are the benefits to be anticipated when using SNA together with
a qualitative contextual method for analyzing social interaction in a
networked environment?
-- What type of methodological design will support the integration of
SNA and case studies?
-- How do different sampling procedures facilitate multilevel analyses
with SNA and micro/macro layers?
-- How can ethnography be pursued in networked environments?
-- Learning to become an Internet ethnographer requires new skills and
competencies; what are they, and what methods and software tools are
available?
-- Ethical issues in being an ethnographer in an online community;
possibilities and bottlenecks for collecting and analyzing data
IMPORTANT DATES
-- Submission of position papers: July 1, 2015
-- Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2015
-- Workshop Day: September 19 (or 20), 2015
PAPER SUBMISSION
-- EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmecscw2015
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Leif C. Lahn, University of Oslo, Norway
Anders I. Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway
Marisa Ponti, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Renate Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway
Prof. Sally Barnes, University of Bristol, UK
Dr. Pål Fugelli, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Frode Guribye, University of Bergen, Norway
Prof. Kai Hakkarainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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