Readings/Schedule
Week 1 (1/16): Intro Class
- Syllabus review
- Register for accounts on Scalar: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/system/register
- Build individual Scalar Workspace. Bring to class:
- two images that you could use for your online workspace (I'd suggest any 2 images you like that could be used as personal thumbnail and/or use to represent your research interests/project).
- a short bio for yourself - a paragraph of 3 sentences stressing research interests is just fine. (longer is fine too)
- a reference for one text that you like that represents some form of research method (any form of qualitative, quantitative, etc) that you identify with and use for your own work: the reference can be for an article, a full book, or just a book chapter. And it can either be from a new text, or from a more "classic" publication. The only key point is that you like it's take on methods. ;] (you might also have more than one reference/text you'd like - which is great; only one is needed for our purposes tomorrow). We'll also use this in the workspaces we each create for our own work.
- In-class resource: Ward 3 Map and City of Urbana Ward Map.
Week 2: (1/23) Mixed Data Methods
Assigned Readings (for class 1/23):
- Hannah Knox and Dawn Nafus (Eds). Ethnography for a data-saturated world. Manchester University Press. 2018. Introduction: Ethnography for a data-saturated world.
- Francisca Grommé, Evelyn Ruppert and Baki Cakici. Data scientists: a new faction of the transnational field of statistics.” In: Hannah Knox and Dawn Nafus (Eds). Ethnography for a data-saturated world. Manchester University Press. 2018.
- Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977). Read pages 76-80 only; you can skim the rest.
Writing Assignment (due 1/23): Reading Notes
Week 3 (1/30): Mixed Data Methods 2
Assigned Readings (for class 1/30):
- Allison Powell, "The Data Walkshop and Radical Bottom-up Data Knowledge." In H. Knox and D. Nafus (Eds). Ethnography for a data-saturated world. Manchester University Press. 2018.
- Dawn Nafus, "Working Ethnographically with Sensor Data,” In: Hannah Knox and Dawn Nafus (Eds). Ethnography for a data-saturated world. Manchester University Press. 2018.
- Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977). Read pages 81 to finish.
Week 4 (2/6): Seeing Signal/Seeing Noise
Assigned Readings (for class 2/6):
- Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, and Why Some of Them Don't. Chapters 8 and 12: "Less and Less and Less Wrong," "A Climate of Healthy Skepticism." 2012.
- Dawn Nafus Interview with Joe Dumit, Chapter 11. Ethnography for a Data-Saturated world. Manchester University Press. 2018.
Week 5 (2/13): Ecology/Environment/Security - Marking Place
In class: Doodle poll for scheduling workshops
Assigned Readings (for 2/13)
- Clayton J. Mosher, Terance D. Miethe, and Dretha M. Phillips, The Mismeasure of Crime (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 2002), p. 1-23.
- Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective," Feminist Studies 14.3 (1988), 575-599.
- Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton University Press, 2015: Chapters 1 and 3: pp. 17-25, and pp. 37-43.
- Also this article (no notes needed): Rachel Nuer. “In Baltimore, the gods will not save you — but the trees will.” 2012. https://grist.org/cities/in-baltimore-the-gods-will-not-save-you-but-the-trees-will/
- Ned's data walk
- Jorge's data walk
- Adrian's data walk
- Jane's data walk
- Jingyi's data walk
- Claudia's data walk
- Lucy's data walk
- Eileen's data walk
- Yohta's data walk
Week 6 (2/20): Neighborhood Risk/Security - System
Assigned Readings (for 2/20):
- Clayton J. Mosher, Terance D. Miethe, and Dretha M. Phillips, The Mismeasure of Crime, (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 2002), Ch. 2-3 (split into four pdfs: p. 25-37; p. 38-57; p. 59-79; p. 80-99)
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, Ch. 2 "The Correct Means of Training," pp. 170-194.
Writing Assignment: Neighborhood Walk 2 Data/Reading Notes
- Jane's second data walk
- Jingyi's second data walk
- Yohta's second data walk
- Lucy's second data walk
- Adrian's second data walk
- Jorge's second data walk
- Ned's second data walk
In class: Contacts Table and Data Walk Table
Week 7 (2/27): Environment/Security – Collective Agency and Placemaking
Week 7 (2/27): Environment/Security – Collective Agency and Placemaking
Assigned Readings:
- James Scott. Seeing Like a State. 1996. Intro, Chapters 1 + 2. (Redacted images available here)
- P.M. Cozens, G. Saville, G. and D. Hillier. (2005). Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography. Journal of Property Management. Volume 23, Issue 5, pp 328-356.
- optional skim: John E. Eck Crime Control Institute, and the University of Maryland, College Park and David Weisburd Hebrew University. Crime Places in Crime Theory. AND: R. Sampson, S. Raudenbush and F. Earls. “Neighborhoods and Violence Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.”
Additional resource: Historic Sites in Champaign County
Writing Assignment (Due 2/27): Reading Notes + News Coverage Analysis
Writing Assignment (Due 2/27): Reading Notes + News Coverage Analysis
- Police (Jorge)
- Fire (Jane)
- Community Development (Yohta)
- Public Works (Ned)
- Mayor's Office (Adrian)
- Human Relations Office (Lucy)
- Circle Academy/Cunningham (Eileen)
- Parks (Jingyi)
Week 7 (3/6): Community Development/ Dataified Economy
Assigned Readings:
- Albert Bandura. “Exercise of Human Agency Through Collective Efficacy.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 2000.
- William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis (1991). Chapters 6, 7, Epilogue.
- Assignment: Interview1 + Reading Notes
Assigned Readings:
- Cathy O’Neill, Weapons of Math Destruction. (2016). Intro, Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5.
- Skim: Searching for Alternative Facts: Analyzing Scriptural Inference in Conservative News Practices
- Assignment: Interview 2
In class: Survey questions (Draft)
- Police (Jorge): Interview 1
- Public Works (Ned): Interview
- Fire (Jane): Interview 1 and Interview 2
- Community Development (Yohta): Interview 1 and Interview 2
- Mayor's Office (Adrian): Interview 1 and Interview 2
- Parks (Jingyi): Interview 1 and Interview 2
- Cunningham: Interview 1
Week 9: (3/20) SPRING BREAK
Week 10 (3/27): Health/Security -- Collective Agency
Atlas.Ti Workshop - 5-6/6:30P Scholarly Commons, Main Library Room 314
Assigned Readings:
- Cathy O’Neill, Weapons of Math Destruction. (2016). Ch. 8-10, Conclusion.
- optional: Timothy Mitchell, “The Work of Economics” (2006).
- optional: Steve Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. (1996). Introduction only.
- Assignment: Search Terms/Bibliography
Week 11 (4/3): Youth, Pedagogy, Engagement
Tableau Workshop - 5-6/6:30P Scholarly Commons, Main Library Room 314
Tableau Workshop - 5-6/6:30P Scholarly Commons, Main Library Room 314
Assigned Readings:
- Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality (2018). Intro, Ch. 1-3.
- optional: Eve L. Ewing. Ghosts in the schoolyard : racism and school closings on Chicago's South side. (2018). Selections.
- optional: Patrick Jagoda, “Gaming the Humanities: Digitial Humanities, New Media, and Practice-Based Research.” (2014).
- Assignment: Writing Exercise
Week 12 (4/10): Youth, Pedagogy, Engagement 2
Excel Workshop - in class, NCSA 2107
- Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality (2018). Ch. 4-5, Conclusion.
- optional: Melissa Brough. Youth Participation in Precarious Times: The Power of Polycultural Civics. 2019. Selections.
- optional: danah boyd, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. (2014). Intro. and Ch. 7.
- Assignment: Writing Exercise
Week 13 (4/17): Libraries and Data Literacies
Tableau Workshop - in class, NCSA 2107
For in-class use: Urbana survey link
Assigned Readings:
- "Searching for Alternative Facts: Analyzing Scriptural Inference in Conservative News Practices," Data & Society 2018 Report
- "Content of Context Moderation: Artisanal, Community-Reliant, and Industrial Approaches," Data & Society 2019 Report.
- "Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited," Data & Society 2018 Report.
- optional:
- Michael Twidale, Catherine Blake, & Jon Gant. “Towards a Data Literate Citizenry.” (2013) and Susan Leigh Star & James R. Griesemer, “Institutional Ecology, ‘Translation,’ and BoundaryObjects:Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39.” (1989).
- Assignment: Reading Notes and Tableau Exercise
Week 14 (4/24): Class Module Presentations
- ICES Feedback form: https://ices.citl.illinois.edu/ - Provide Feedback from 4/25
Week 15 (5/1): Class Module Presentations and Wrap Up