Doing Digital Ethnography
This panel examines the craft of digital ethnography, or participant observation of online social spaces. We consider the promises and challenges of fieldwork in online social life, hybrid combinations of data in-real-life and online, and the future and limitations of participant observation in an increasingly digitized world.
Doing Longitudinal Studies Online
Longitudinal studies are difficult to conduct, particularly online, as people drop out, forget to participate, or you fail to link data across waves. In this workshop, we’ll go through the nuts and bolts of recruiting and engaging participants and collecting longitudinal data.
Interpretivist Methods Clinic
The Interpretivist Methods Clinic is evolving! Please join us for the October 26th meeting as we develop community goals for the next iteration of the virtual community.
Pan-African Symposium on Digital Learning in Global Africa
The Howard University Department of African Studies will host an international virtual symposium on Digital Learning in Global Africa During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, on October 21 and 22, 2021.
APSA Methods Café
The 2021 APSA theme, “Promoting Pluralism,” encourages political scientists to embrace methodological pluralism in their study of political, economic, and social upheavals and significant transformations that are occurring across the globe.
Feminist Research Methodologies and Digital Feminist Research
This 10-week seminar is designed for students who want to start research with a feminist theoretical framework. While this course focuses on technique, it also hones in on the theoretical background of feminist research including, epistemology critiques and feminist standpoints. Course discussions will revolve around feminist theories, epistemologies and research methods within feminist frameworks.
Human Origins Research in the Time of COVID-19
Dr. Rick Potts, Director of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program, will share his creative response to this situation and describe how he was able to conduct a “virtual” field season at two sites in Kenya in the summer of 2021 in collaboration with colleagues from the National Museums of Kenya.
Doing Socio-Legal Research in a Pandemic: How, Why, When, Where?
Sponsored by the SLSA, this one-day conference seeks to bring together diverse voices from across the socio-legal community to collaboratively and creatively draw together experiences of the pandemic on our research practices.
Methods Clinic: Issues in Interpretive Research
The IMM and APSA’s Women’s Caucus in Political Science co-sponsor a monthly online Methods Clinic convened by Prof. Peregrine Schwartz-Shea (University of Utah, em.) and Prof. Dvora Yanow (Wageningen University).
Recruiting Subjects Online
There are many ways to recruit subjects for your studies. And, different studies require different recruitment strategies. Come learn from the expertise we’ve developed from running over 700,000 participants online. We’ll show you the tradeoffs in everything from paid pools and online panels, to crowdsourcing, online ads, and partnerships.