Topics:
Study design: case study; ethics
Practice: bias
Read for Class:
- A-Z entry on case study in Sage Qualitative and Sage Communication
- (Skim)Gallagher, J. R. (2024). Case Study Research in the Digital Age. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003402169 (intro and chapter 1 attached *.pdf)
- A-Z entry on bias in the Sage Qualitative ; short blog on bias
- A-Z entry on relational ethics in the Sage Qualitative
- Melonçon, L., Molloy, C., & Scott, J. B. (2020). Ethics in praxis: Situational, embodied, relational. Rhetoric of health & medicine, 3(4), 430-436. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2020.4004
- McNely, B. (2024). Engaging ambience: Visual & multisensory methodologies & rhetorical theory. Utah State University Press. Introduction
Do for class:
- Post a citation and short summary of an article or book chapter (in an edited collection; do not use a chapter from a monograph) that uses the case study method and aligns with who you are as a scholar/teacher/practitioner. N.B.
- Perform a brief field observation exercise based on our readings and discussion of surveys. Your task this week is to consider some aspect of your research question that may benefit from quantitative data. Write up five survey questions that would get you data toward answering your query. In addition, you want to explain what approach you would do to get a sample and distribute your survey. Upload a short document with your inquiry, your five sample questions, and your sampling plan as a single file to the google folder for this week.
In class:
- discussion of case study readings
- discussion of your survey field exercise
- discussion of bias and ethics