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Cheri Johnson's picture
August 11, 2020
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  • method / activities:

I am conducting a year-long comparative ethnography using descriptive/divergent type semi-structured interviews (SSI). 

  • data type:

Interviews

SourcingParticipants will be located from publicly sourced published sources that indicate that the potential participant may correspond with defined criteria. Examples: NAISA, SAIC, AOTALM and other Indigenous conferences and professional organizations. University contacts and networks. Personal Tribal Network. Authorship. Government institutions etc. Recommendations of other participants that may result from direct contacts will also be pursued as potential participants through direct correspondence.

Protocol - as approved by my IRB.

COVID factor - I believe that conducting at least the initial interview in-person is critical to building trust and setting conditions for thoughtful, unrushed, and reflexive answers. This also increases authentic responses from the participants and allows for a broader range indexical communication. Further, the controlled access and transcribing of interview transcripts and the conduction of the interview by the researcher in person, rather than by indirect methods demanded by the current pandemic, is expected to decrease the perception that anyone else has access to individual responses. The participants must perceive that participating is a choice and is confidential. Increasing the perception of confidentiality is expected to decrease influenced responses that may be formed to satisfy a work supervisor or tribal expectation and increase the participants’ willingness to provide more authentic answers. Although I'm continuing my research using video chat tools, I am curious if anyone has insight into this challenge.

Data Products/Analysis. Each interview will be transcribed verbatim and coded. Following each interview, I will create an additional document that summarizes my impressions of the participant and the data provided in the interview. All documents and transcripts will be linked to a centralized spreadsheet that will provide an interviewee number and corresponding demographics. 

  • preservation:

All informed consent forms will be collected and stored in protected files. No participants will be asked to disclose personal data such as medical history or social security numbers, nor will they be asked to speak for their tribe. I will personally transcribe and code all interviews. All voice recordings will be recorded on my personal iphone and uploaded to the my password protected computer. Transcripts will also be stored on my password protected computer.  

  • access:

After the dissertation is complete, I will retain the transcripts for a period of two years so that they can be used for further analysis and publication after graduation. After two years I will make the transcripts available to other researchers should I be contacted with a request and provided the informant checked the box that they gave their consent. 

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August 11, 2020
In response to:
  • method / activities: participant observations
  • data type: (pre-COVID) hand-written notes, (post-COVID) typed notes on my laptop
  • preservation: stored on my laptop (handwritten notes will be scanned and uploaded), and backed up on Box
  • access: (till data collection ends) private, but will be made public (via dissertation/other academic writing) with participant consent and once anonymized
  • method / activities: one-on-one interviews
  • data type: audio recordings (and video when interlocutor is comfortable + has the internet bandwidth), notes typed on laptop
  • preservation: stored on my laptop, backed up on Box
  • access: private, to be made public if used in writing + participant consents
  • method / activities: observations of meetings, workshops, conferences etc.
  • data type: handwritten and typed notes + recordings of YouTube and FB lives (or in rarer instances Zoom webinars)
  • preservation: will first be catalogued, then stored on my laptop in order + backed up on Box
  • access: events conducted by organizations are largely public, with some variations depending on audience (eg. accessible to particular listservs)
  • method / activities: archival research
  • data type: documents available in electronic archives + from library searches
  • preservation: will be ordered, stored on Mendeley and backed up on Box
  • access: documents are semi-public (often depending on institutional access), but my notes on them will be kept private
  • method / activities: Twitter conversations
  • data type: bookmarking relevant tweets + interactions on those tweets
  • preservation: screenshots will be catalogued, stored on Mendeley and backed up on Box
  • access: for the most part, tweets are public, but will keep my notes private
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Jessica Caporusso's picture
August 10, 2020
In response to:
  • method / activities: participant observation (participatory mapping)
  • data type: 1. embodied knowledge (walking) 2. sketches 3. photographs and video (JPG, MP3, WAV, and MP4) 4. handwritten fieldnotes 5. remote sensing software (GIS, Excel)
  • preservation: back-up of digital maps (QGIS, OpenStreetMap, field notebooks, hard drive, Dropbox)
  • access: notes and images are private (hardcopies in secured field notebooks and folders; soft copies stored on private, secure hard drives); anonymized data in dissertation drafts (hard drive and Dropbox backups)

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  • method / activities: participant observation (laboratories and classroom-based)
  • data type: 1. embodied knowledge (hands-on training) 2. sketches 3. photographs and videos (JPG) 4. audio and video recordings (MP3, WAV, and MP4) 5. journals and handwritten fieldnotes
  • preservation: back-up of digital files (photos, audio, video on secure hard drive); written field notebooks
  • access: notes, recording, and images are private (written hardcopies in secured field notebooks and folders; soft copies stored on private, secure hard drives); anonymized data in dissertation drafts (hard drive and Dropbox backups)

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  • method / activities: interviews
  • data type: 1. audio recordings (WAV and MP3) 4. handwritten notes
  • preservation: back-up of digital files (secure hard drive); written field notebooks
  • access: notes, recording, and images are private (written hardcopies in secured field notebooks and folders; soft copies stored on private, secure hard drives); anonymized data in dissertation drafts (hard drive and Dropbox backups)

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  • method / activities: archives and archival research (in-person and online)
  • data type: 1. photographs (JPG) 2. handwritten notes 3. screen captures (JPG)
  • preservation: back-up of digital files (secure hard drive); field notebooks
  • access: notes and images are private (written hardcopies in secured field notebooks and folders; soft copies stored on private, secure hard drives); anonymized data in dissertation drafts (hard drive and Dropbox backups)
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August 9, 2020
In response to:
  • method / activities: One on one interviews
    • data type: (1) audio or video recording; (2) textual transcript; (3) personal memo/codes on them
    • preservation: (1) stored in the institutional cloud storage (surfdrive.nl). Back-up on my personal cloud storage and external hard drive; (2) stored in Atlas.ti and surfdrive. Back-up again in my personal cloud storage and external drive; (3) stored only in Atlas.ti so far
    • access: (1) private; (2) shared with my supervisor; (3) private

  • method / activities: Observations during meetings/conferences/courses etc.
    • data type: (1) digital fieldwork journal notes (all handwritten notes are digitized so far); (2) personal memo/codes on them
    • preservation: (1) Stored in Atlas.ti and the institutional cloud storage (surfdrive.nl). Back-up in my personal cloud storage and external hard drive; (2) stored only in Atlas.ti so far.
    • access: (1) shared with my supervisor; (2) private

  • method / activities: Participant observations
    • data type: (1) digital fieldwork journal notes (all handwritten notes are digitized so far); (2) personal memo/codes on them
    • preservation: (1) Stored in Atlas.ti. and the institutional cloud storage (surfdrive.nl). Back-up in my personal cloud storage and external hard drive; (2) stored only in Atlas.ti so far.
    • access: (1) shared with my supervisor; (2) private

  • method / activities: Following stakeholders on Twitter
    • data type: (1) screenshots of the tweets I find relevant; (2) photos attached to some tweets; (3) personal memo/codes on them
    • preservation: (1) Stored in Atlas.ti. and the institutional cloud storage (surfdrive.nl). Back-up in my personal cloud storage and external hard drive; (2) Stored in surfdrive. Back up in my personal cloud storage and external hard drive; (3) stored only in Atlas.ti so far.
    • access: (1-3) private (for now)

  • method / activities: Focus group meetings
    • data type: (1) audio or video recording; (2) textual transcript; (3) personal memo/codes on them
    • preservation: (1) would be stored in the institutional cloud storage (surfdrive.nl). Back-up in my personal cloud storage and external hard drive; (2,3) stored in Atlas.ti. Back-up in surfdrive, my personal cloud storage and external hard drive.
    • access: (1) private; (2) shared with the supervisor; (3) private (or might also be shared with the supervisor)
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Angela Okune's picture
July 21, 2020
In response to:
  • method / activities: One on one interviews
  • data type: (1) audio recording; (2) textual transcript; (3) handwritten jottings
  • preservation: all data to be stored on my instance of PECE with different privacy settings. Back-up on my computer; second and third back-up in the cloud (Carbonite and Dropbox).
  • access: (1) private; (2); public if consent given by participant; (3) private

  • method / activities: Group discussions
  • data type: (1) audio recording; (2) textual transcript; (3) handwritten jottings
  • preservation: all data to be stored on my instance of PECE with different privacy settings. Back-up on my computer; second and third back-up in the cloud (Carbonite and Dropbox).
  • access: (1) private; (2); public if consent given by all participants in the discussion; (3) private

 

  • method / activities: participant observation
  • data type: handwritten jottings
  • preservation: hard copy saved for 5 years at least; important pages to be scanned and uploaded to my instance of PECE. very important pages to be typed up into digital documents. Back-up on my computer; second and third back-up in the cloud (Carbonite and Dropbox).
  • access: private (for now)
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