In-class notes for 02/25/2020
CS 263 (ESD), Spring 2020
Today's plan
Schedule changes
Interview plans
Feedback on hermeneutic cycles exercise (may be off-line)
Quiz topics
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Meanings of the rows and columns
Goal - seek deeper, non-obvious understanding
Examples in context (of a familiar application)
Ethical theories and applications
Terms: descriptive vs normative; dialectic process
Three normative perspectives
Examples in context
Hermeneutical cycles for literature searches
Goal of the cycles - develop better understanding of the whole
Simple cycle discussed in class
Examples in context
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terms open, closed; types of interview structured, semi-structured, unstructured, focus group
Examples in context
Ethical analysis project - overview
Preliminary research: initial client interview; literature search; research methods
Determine the scope of your project - what parts of the STS you will focus on.
Develop primary ethical questions or concerns to study, with rationale for those questions.
Choose methods of data collection that address those ethical questions, with rationale.
Gather the data according to your plan
Analyze the data that was gathered
Formulate recommendations
Write and deliver verbal and written reports of your project
Types of methods
Team exercise:
As a team, identify 3 preliminary ethical issues to consider exploring for your team's project
Examine methods of analysis table, and identify 5 methods as a team that would inform your "main" questions
Evaluate your choice of methods for studying those questions, based on:
how well the data from those methods would inform those questions,
how they compare to other methods for gathering data for those questions, and
feasibility of those methods for your project.
Summarize this process in a Google doc, and submit a PDF by Sunday 3/1 "midnight" using this submission link .
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