Hi all, Great thread! CAT Lab takes a collaborative approach to full-cycle research that we call citizen behavioral science. We describe it here:
Matias, J. N., & Mou, M. (2018, April). CivilServant: Community-led experiments in platform governance <https://natematias.com/media/Community_Led_Experiments-CHI_2018.pdf>. In *Proceedings of the 2018 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems* (pp. 1-13). Mortensen, C. R., & Cialdini, R. B. (2010). Full‐cycle social psychology for theory and application <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2009.00239.x?casa_token=l8rsm5lpC0oAAAAA%3AufzQ9CAdDx5v5qGwMrema8F5LI87VLGepu-GCxjompZDZwI2VOfLxz7AdFxhhub5qABbPIhwFh0yE4c>. *Social and Personality Psychology Compass*, *4*(1), 53-63. --Nathan On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for Stu Geiger's approach. I also like to take an ethnographic approach > to understanding Wikipedia as a project/workspace/community. I used to > conduct a *lot* of interviews with Wikipedia community members, and the > best reference I've found for how to do ethnographic interviewing well is > James Spradley's appropriately-named classic methods manual > <https://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=688>. If you're curious whether > this > is the right approach for you, you can find sample chapters of that work in > various places on the web, like here (PDF > <http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/Spradley.pdf>). > > Jonathan > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 9:20 AM Isaac Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd like to also call out the trace ethnography approach that R. Stuart > > Geiger and others have used to great effect in studying Wikipedia -- > e.g., > > see https://stuartgeiger.com/trace-ethnography-hicss-geiger-ribes.pdf > > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 3:47 AM Pablo Aragón <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > Thanks for sharing this question and the two references. In the field > of > > > Computational Social Science, [1-3] are key references to me, I hope > they > > > inspire you too. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > [1] Salganik, M. J. (2019). Bit by bit: Social research in the digital > > age. > > > Princeton University Press. https://www.bitbybitbook.com > > > > > > [2] González-Bailón, S. (2017). Decoding the social world: Data science > > and > > > the unintended consequences of communication. MIT Press. > > > https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/decoding-social-world > > > > > > [3] Lazer, D. M., Pentland, A., Watts, D. J., Aral, S., Athey, S., > > > Contractor, N., ... & Wagner, C. (2020). Computational social science: > > > Obstacles and opportunities. Science, 369(6507), 1060-1062. > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 5:28 PM Andrew Green <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I hope this is the right place to ask this question! > > > > > > > > I was wondering if folks who are doing (or are interested in) > research > > > > about Wikipedia might like to share texts that they feel best > describe > > > > the general research frameworks they use (or might like to use). > > > > > > > > I'd love to hear about any texts you like, regardless of format > > > > (textbook, paper, general reference, blog post, etc.). > > > > > > > > It seems a lot of work about Wikipedia uses approaches from > > > > Computational Social Science. The main references I have for that are > > > > [1] and [2]. > > > > > > > > I'm especially interested in links between Computational Social > Science > > > > and frameworks from more traditional social sciences and cognitive > > > science. > > > > > > > > Many thanks in advance!!!!! :) Cheers, > > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > [1] Cioffi-Revilla, C. (2017) /Introduction to Computational Social > > > > Science. Principles and Applications. Second Edition./ Cham, > > > > Switzerland: Springer. > > > > > > > > [2] Melnik, R. (ed.) (2015)/Mathematical and Computational Modeling. > > > > With Applications in Natural and Social Sciences, Engineering, and > the > > > > Arts/. Hoboken, U.S.A.: Wiley. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Andrew Green (he/him) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > -- > > Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- J. 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