From d280717b32da82f859cb68a9c565cddaca615d85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:37:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Start methodology chapter

---
 thesis/3-Methods.tex  | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 thesis/references.bib |   2 +-
 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

diff --git a/thesis/3-Methods.tex b/thesis/3-Methods.tex
index a847386..2a0fd8a 100644
--- a/thesis/3-Methods.tex
+++ b/thesis/3-Methods.tex
@@ -1,39 +1,46 @@
 \chapter{Methods}
 \label{chap:methods}
 
-\begin{comment}
-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
+This chapter describes the methodology applied throughout the thesis.
+
+\section{Open Science}
+
+The whole work tries to adhere to the principles of open science. %TODO what are the principle of open science? refs are missing
+All the computations I have done and other artefacts I have used or compiled are openly accessible in the project's repository~\cite{github}.
+And have been openly accessible since the very beginning.
+Everyone interested can follow the process and/or use the data or scripts in order to verify my computations (syn) or run their own and thus continue this research along one of the directions suggested in section~\ref{sec:further-studies} or in a completely new one.
 
-\cite{Geiger2014}
-"the idea that Wikipedia only takes place on wiki-
-pedia.org – or even entirely on the Internet – is a huge misunderstanding (Konieczny, 2009;
-Reagle, 2010). Wikipedia is not a virtual world, especially one located entirely on the wiki."
-e.g. in order to get hold of abuse_filter_history I had to engage with
-- wikipedia.org
-- mediawiki.org
-- irc channels
-- phabricator
-- gerrit
-- toolserver/cloudservices
-----
-other spaces Wikipedia takes place
-- mailinglists
-- WomenEdit/offenes Editieren @Wikimedia
-- Wikimania
-- Wikimedia's office and daily work
-\end{comment}
 \section{Grounded Theory}
+
+I have employed some methods used by grounded theory %TODO check whether it's written with caps
+scholars, most prominently/above all their coding processes.
+There are different branches? in grounded theory that diverge slightly or more prominently.
+I followed the guidelines and .. proposed/described by Charmaz in~\cite{Charmaz2006}.
+
+
 \section{Trace Ethnography}
 
+A second important theoretical framework constitutes the trace ethnography.
+The concept was first introduced/used by Geiger and Ribes in their 2010 work ``The work of sustaining order in Wikipedia: the banning of a vandal''~\cite{GeiRib2010} and introduced in detail in a 2011 paper~\cite{GeiRib2011}.
+The scholars define trace ethnography as a methodology which
+``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''
+and is especially practical for research in distributes technical systems (doppelt gemoppelt with quote) where direct partipants observation is impractical, costly and tend to miss phenomena due to..
+They use documents and document traces: ... %TODO which ones
+in order to reconstruct quite exactly single strands of actions and comprehend how different agents on Wikipedia work together towards the blocking of a single malicious user.
+They (syn!) refer to ``turn[ing] thin documentary traces into “thick descriptions” of actors and events".
+What is more, these traces are used by Wikipedians themselves in order to do their work efficiently.
+Geiger and Ribes underline the importance of insider knowledge when reconstructing actions and processes based on the traces,
+the need for ``an ethnographic understanding of the activities, people, systems, and technologies which contribute to their production''.
+
+They alert that via trace ethnography only that can be observed which is recorded by the system and records are always incomplete.
+%TODO pitfalls of using data produced for other purposes?
+
+The researchers also warn of possible privacy breaching through thickening traces:
+although records they use to reconstruct paths of action are all open, the thick descriptions they compile can suddenly expose a lot of information about single users which never existed in this form before and who never gave their informed consent for their data being used this way.
+
 \cite{GeiRib2011}
 Introduce the methodology (and the concept) of trace ethnography.
 
@@ -60,20 +67,6 @@ 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
@@ -107,5 +100,38 @@ question"
 * more traditional social science/qualitative methods, e.g. interviews, observations, experiments
 \end{comment}
 
+\begin{comment}
+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
+
+\cite{Geiger2014}
+"the idea that Wikipedia only takes place on wiki-
+pedia.org – or even entirely on the Internet – is a huge misunderstanding (Konieczny, 2009;
+Reagle, 2010). Wikipedia is not a virtual world, especially one located entirely on the wiki."
+e.g. in order to get hold of abuse_filter_history I had to engage with
+- wikipedia.org
+- mediawiki.org
+- irc channels
+- phabricator
+- gerrit
+- toolserver/cloudservices
+----
+other spaces Wikipedia takes place
+- mailinglists
+- WomenEdit/offenes Editieren @Wikimedia
+- Wikimania
+- Wikimedia's office and daily work
+\end{comment}
+
 \section{Cooking Data With Care}
 or Critical data science? Or both?
+
+\section{Validation}
diff --git a/thesis/references.bib b/thesis/references.bib
index 08ecc14..38f3388 100644
--- a/thesis/references.bib
+++ b/thesis/references.bib
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 @misc{github,
   key =          "Github Repository",
   author =       {},
-  title =        {},
+  title =        {Github Repository of the thesis},
   year =         2019,
   note =         {\url{https://github.com/lusy/wikifilters}}
 }
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