Add notes on trace ethnography and cooking data with care

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 \subsection{Grounded Theory}
 \subsection{Trace Ethnography}
+
+\cite{GeiRib2011}
+Introduce the methodology (and the concept) of trace ethnography.
+
+Def
+"combines the richness of participant-observation
+with the wealth of data in logs so as to reconstruct
+patterns and practices of users in distributed
+sociotechnical systems."
+
+"exploits the proliferation of
+documents and documentary traces"
+
+"traces not only
+document events but are also used by participants
+themselves to coordinate and render accountable many
+activities"
+
+"heterogeneous data – which include transaction logs,
+version histories, institutional records, conversation
+transcripts, and source code"
+"allowing us to retroactively reconstruct specific actions
+at a fine level of granularity"
+
+"turn thin documentary traces into
+“thick descriptions” [10] of actors and events"
+
+"traces can only
+be fully inverted through an ethnographic
+understanding of the activities, people, systems, and
+technologies which contribute to their production."
+
+traditional ethnographic observation is costly and inpractical in distributed settings (and may miss phenomena that occur between sites)
+
+Critique:
+"it only can observe what the system
+or platform records, which are always incomplete."
+
+Concerns:
+- ethical: breaching privacy via thickening the traces; no possibility for informed consent
+
+\cite{GeiHal2017}
+"when working with large-scale “found data” [36] of the traces
+users leave behind when interacting on a platform, how do we best operationalize culturally-specific
+concepts like conflict in a way that aligns with the particular context in which those traces were made?"
+
+Star: "ethnography of infrastructure":
+"discusses the “veridical” approach, in which “the information system
+is taken unproblematically as a mirror of actions in the world, and often tacitly, as a complete
+enough record of those actions” (p. 388).
+She contrasts this with seeing the data as “a trace or record
+of activities,” in which the information infrastructure “sits (often uneasily) somewhere between
+research assistant to the investigator and found cultural artifact."
+
+"Trace
+ethnography is not “lurker ethnography” done by someone who never interviews or participates in
+a community."
+trace literacy --> get to know the community; know how to participate in it
+
+thick description of different prototypical cases:
+
 \subsection{Cooking Data With Care}
+or Critical data science? Or both?
 
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+
+vgl \cite{GeiHal2017}
+iterative mixed method
+combination of:
+* quantitative methods: mining big data sets/computational social science
+"begin with one or
+more large (but often thin) datasets generated by a software platform, which has recorded digital
+traces that users leave in interacting on that platform. Such researchers then seek to mine as much
+signal and significance from these found datasets as they can at scale in order to answer a research
+question"
+* more traditional social science/qualitative methods, e.g. interviews, observations, experiments
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