+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 <isaac(a)wikimedia.org> 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 <paragon(a)wikimedia.org> 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 <agreen(a)wikimedia.org>
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.
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