Hello all

This is an invitation to participate in an ongoing research project on the changes in discourse about ICTD between 2000 and 2010.  We may be presenting results for ICTD2012 conference next year in Atlanta.

We are coding a large number of papers (details below) using a short, 10-question guide. We will have a pizza coding party next Friday April 29, 3:30-5:30 pm, come join us for the fun.

Let me know if you are interested in more than the pizza party, this should be a fun project to work on if you have the interest and some time.

Ricardo Gomez
Assistant Professor, iSchool

 

Pizza Party with Qualitative Coding

Information and Communication Technologies for Development Discourse Analysis

Friday April 29, 3:30-5:30 pm
COM 302

Join us for a coding pizza party on April 29, 3:30-5:30 pm at COM 302 computer lab. Help code a handful of research papers on Information and Communication Technologies for Development, as part of an ongoing iSchool study of the discourse of ICTD.

In exchange for your time and insight we will offer eternal glory, hands on participation in research, and a pizza party precursor to Friday’s happy hour.

Questions?  Ask Fernando Baron or Ricardo Gomez or Brittany Fiore-Sifvast

Where:  COM 302 

 

Details of study:

ICTD Narratives Study, 2000-2010

Ricardo Gomez, with Luis F Baron & Brittany Fiore-Silfvast, University of Washington

Results for submission to ICTD 2012, deadline July 22 2011.

 

Research questions:

·         What are the notions of development and of the relationship between ICT and society in the dominant ICTD literature?

·         How have they changed over the past decade? 

·         What is the nature of the contribution to the field of ICTD research?

·         What are the preferred epistemology, ontology, & research methods?

 

Three threads to explore: analysis of narratives in the academic literature; milestones in the ICTD timeline (1995-2010); if possible, key documents in industry, donor and international organizations.

Corpus:

2000-2010 issues of: ITID, ITD, EJISDC, IJICTHD, JOCI journals; ICTD conference.

Optional (if we can): ID, IT&P, IFIP 9.4

 

Journals

 ITID

Information Technologies & International Development

http://itidjournal.org/itid

ITD

Information Technology for Development

http://itd.ist.unomaha.edu/

EJISDC

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

http://www.ejisdc.org

JOCI

Journal of Community Informatics

http://ci-journal.net

IJICTHD

International Journal of Information and Communication Technologies for Human Development

http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?TitleId=1101

ID

Information Development

http://idv.sagepub.com/

IT&P

Information Technology & People

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=itp

 

ICTD Conference

2010 London

http://www.ictd2010.org/

2009 Doha

http://www.ictd2009.org/

2007 Bangalore

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/c12152007

2006 Berkeley

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/ictd2006/

IFIP 9.4 Computers and Society

http://www.ifipwg94.org/

 

Content Analysis Instrument:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/brookfre/129384

 

 

 

Ricardo Gomez

Assistant Professor

The Information School

University of Washington

rgomez@uw.edu

http://faculty.washington.edu/rgomez