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Occupy Research home
Welcome! This is an open, shared space for distributed research focused around OccupyWallStreet / OccupyTogether. We are sharing ideas, research questions, research methods, tools, datasets, and later working to gather, analyze, discuss, write, code, and otherwise develop the theory and practice of occupy research together. Check out the left hand column for links to different pages (e.g. research questions, interview guides, overview of tools and practices in the camps, etc).
Participate
If you'd like to participate, please:
1. Join the Occupy Research Main Mailing list: occupyresearch@autistici.org; subscribe here: https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyresearch
2. request membership* in this wiki, and include a little bit of info about yourself. Once added, you can also provide more info at occupyresearch.net/who, if you like.
(* note: Why is this a moderated space? We started out on a completely open etherpad but unfortunately, we had to switch due to repeated attacks from some annoying trolls ;)
You can also
participate in these ways:
Events
Occupy Research open conference calls will be in a bi-weekly basis on Tuesdays at
6.00pm EST / 3.00pm PST. Register at http://interoccupy.org/researchcall/
- 04.10.12 OR 14th conference call Tuesday April 10th 2012, 6.00pm EST / 3.00pm PST To join, register for the call at http://interoccupy.org/researchcall/ . Live notes: http://bit.ly/orcall14
- 03.27.12 OR 13th conference call Tuesday March 27th 2012, 6.00pm EST / 3.00pm PST To join, register for the call at http://interoccupy.org/researchcall/ . Live notes: http://bit.ly/ORCall13
- 03.13.12 OR 12th conference call Tuesday March 13th 2012, 6.00pm EST / 3.00pm PST To join, register for the call at http://interoccupy.org/researchcall/. Live notes: http://bit.ly/orcall12
- 02.28.2012 OR 11th conference call Tuesday February 28th 2012, 6.00pm EST / 3.00pm PST: Announcements, Breakouts. To join, register for the call at http://interoccupy.org/researchcall/. Live notes: http://bit.ly/orcall11
- 2.7.2012 OR 10th conference call: Tuesday, February 7th, 6pm EST / 3pm PST: Announcements, Project Updates, OR Coordination, Breakouts. To join, register for the call at http://interoccupy.org/researchcall/. Live notes: http://bit.ly/orcall10
- 1.14.12 OR 9th Conference Call: Saturday, Jan.14, 1 pm EST/10 am PST. Announcements, Project Updates, and an Occupy Race breakout callFrom a phone: Dial conference call number (949) 202-4265; PIN:51267#. From Skype *NEW!* Skype id: meetingburnerconf Code:51267#.
Live notes: http://bit.ly/orcall9 - 1.7.12 OR 8th Conference Call: Saturday,Jan.7, 1 pm EST/10 am PST. Announcements, Project Updates, and two breakout calls-- Survey & Analysis @ 10:30 am | From a phone: Dial conference call number (949) 202-4265; PIN:51267#. From Skype *NEW!* Skype id: meetingburnerconf Code:51267#.
Live notes: bit.ly/ORCall8 - 1.2.12 Training for Surveyors: Monday, January 2nd at 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST. Get an overview of the Occupy Research General Survey process, pick up some tips for conducting face to face surveys, and discuss all the crucial info for this open and participatory research project! It is open to all! Call-in Info: (661) 673-8600; Access code: 227315#
- 12.17.11 OR 7th Conference Call: Saturday, Dec.17th, 1 pm EST/10 am PST. Call (661) 673-8600* and enter *Audio Pin227315# Agenda: Announcements, Project Updates, Survey Outreach, and a Survey Training following the main call! Link to live meeting notes: http://bit.ly/ORcall7
- 12.10.11 Occupy Research 6th Conference Call: General Survey + Race, Class and Gender Research. Dec. 10th, 1 pm EST/ 10am PST.Dial conference call number (949) 202-4265 and enter Audio Pin 227315# . http://bit.ly/ORcall6 <http://bit.ly/ORcall6>
- 12.9-12.12 OccupyData Hackathon: #occupydata Occupy Data Hackathon! http://bit.ly/occupyhackathon | bit.ly/occupydataschedule | irc.lc/indymeda/occupydata | http://bit.ly/occupyspreadsheet | http://r-shief.org
- 12.1.2011 Occupy Research 5th Conference Call
General Survey + Research Handbook Dec. 1st. 4pm East/ 1pm Pacific http://bit.ly/ORcall5 (Dial (949) 202-4265 and enter Audio Pin 82701#) Please note, the pin was recently updated - 11.19.2011 OccupyResearch 4th Conference Call + General Survey + Data Mining. Nov. 19th. 1pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific http://bit.ly/orcall4
- 11.12.2011 OccupyResearch 3rd Conference Call + General Survey discussion; Saturday, Nov. 12th, 1pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific: http://bit.ly/orcall3
- 11.5.2011 Conference call: Occupy Research conference call, Saturday, Nov 5th 2011: http://bit.ly/ORcall2
- 10.29.2011 Conference call: Occupy Research conference call, Saturday, Oct. 29th, 1pm Eastern (Dial: (218) 237-3840, Passcode: 131245)Notes http://bit.ly/ORconfcall29Oct2011
Projects
Links to more info about existing Occupy Research projects. W/links to more info on each, and point/contact people. This spreadsheet is linked, so it will update with changes to the spreadsheet when you refresh this window. Follow the link to make changes to the spreadsheet.
Spreadsheet of projects (http://bit.ly/ORprojects )
- Occupy Research Working Groups: to connect to existing, and create new, Occupy Research Working Groups in as many Occupy camps as possible. See http://occupyresearch.net/orwg
- Handbook: To create an 'OccupyResearch handbook' with an intro about coresearch, some suggested/model templates for RQs, methods, and instruments, and instructions for how and where to share/upload findings/responses. The draft is being developed in this wiki and in this shared google document: http://bit.ly/sbZOoG
- Database: To create a shared, open database where people can upload, download: survey datasets, (anonymized) interview transcripts, geospatial datasets, tweet and SNS datasets, etc. See http://occupydata.org
- Archive: For there to be persistent, rich media archive(s) of Occupy content (video, audio, photos, texts, tweets, etc). See http://occupyarchive.org, as well as other existing projects.
- Surveys: To share survey ideas, techniques, data, best practices; to train interested occupiers in how to create, administer, and analyze surveys; to develop a shared short-form survey instrument and guide to be used across as many camps as possible so there is at least one multisite survey project. See http://occupyresearch.net/surveys
- Interviews: To share interview guides, strategies, how-to; to develop semi-structured interview guide used across multiple sites; to share interview transcripts. See http://occupyresearch.net/interviews
- Structured Field Reports: develop and share methods for structured field reports across camps. See http://occupyresearch.wikispaces.com/structured+field+reports
- Occupy Camps Spreadsheet:to extend the resource guide at occupytogether so that there's an open spreadsheet with key info about each camp: http://bit.ly/occupyspreadsheet
- Outreach: To spread the word about OccupyResearch to interested co-researchers.
- Community Psychology and the OCCUPY movement: To support the Occupy movement with community psychological principles in addition to researching activism within the movement from a lens of community based participatory action research.http://groups.google.com/group/CMPSY_OCCUPY on google groups and
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SCRA.OCCUPY/ on facebook - Occupy Race/Class/Gender: a research project to understand the dynamics of race, class, and gender in the Occupy movement and how Occupy as a social movement is evolving and relating to existing movement institutions. See: http://occupyresearch.wikispaces.com/occupyrace
Methods
[move this to a separate research methods section?]
- Interviews @ camps (see shared set of questions for semistructured interviews at link on the left )
- Survey. Develop a shared survey instrument, translate to various languages, create a mobile version of it (Open Data Kit?) and a How-To guide so that people can more easily form research teams and take/administer the survey if they want. (see survey link on the left)
- Participant Observation
- Observant Participation (fieldwork by researchers who are already in the movement)
- Interviews w/people who participate remotely
- 'Shadow' participants. Observe, document, and annotate their media use.
- Action Research
- IVR survey tool: can we use VOIP Drupal or other tool to create a voice-only/voice interactive version of the survey, so people can call in to take it?
- Big Data analysis - twitter, news articles
- Qualitative Discourse Analysis- twitter, websits, media (alternative/mainstream)
- Social network analysis mapping connections between Occupy camps & sites:
- Codesign? Deliberation tools workshop @camps
- Lit review
- Social history of the recent past (?)
- Front page newspaper coverage vs Twitter (http://numeroteca.org/cat/frontpage-newspaper/)
- Aerial mapping: http://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-10-01-newyork-occupywallstreet
- Text analysis (for example Nvivo, echomail - automatic categorization from email) [send siva twitter DB]
- Systems mapping
Bike Rack
If you're not sure where to put something on this wiki, feel free to just drop it here in the Bike Rack. Also, if you see something in the Bike Rack, and you think you know where it should go - copy and paste it to the appropriate page!
Is there a need to craft a statement about research ethics, the use of human subjects and access to data?