Preliminary Code list

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }A:link { } We talk about:

  • Active Participation
  • Agriculture produce
  • App creation
  • Art
  • Barter Economy
  • Big family
  • Bridenapping
  • Carpool
  • Changing yourself
  • Charity
  • Children education
  • Civil society
  • Coding
  • Collective Action
  • Common goals
  • Communication/collaboration
  • Community initiatives
  • Computer Literacy
  • Critical Mass
  • Crowd-funding
  • Cycle friendly
  • Cyclist events
  • Educational initiative
  • Election monitoring
  • Environmental-friendly
  • Environmental campaign
  • Environmental Protest
  • Final conference
  • Flash-mobs
  • Forced Marriage
  • Foreign support
  • Freedom of learning
  • Fundraising
  • Gender (in)Equality
  • Gender Stereotypes
  • Grass-root
  • Homophobia
  • Informal Dynamics
  • Informal Economy
  • Informal Education
  • Infrastructure
  • Institutional support
  • Institutions
  • Interactive mapping
  • International Labor Movement
  • Internet privacy
  • IT
  • Employment
  • Learning to fly
  • Learning together
  • Local authorities
  • Matchmaking
  • Material gain
  • Memes
  • Mixed media approach
  • Motherhood
  • Non-material gain
  • Online Activism
  • Open Data
  • Open Mind
  • Open Source Software
  • Open Street Map
  • Out-of-box thinking
  • Passion for change
  • Patriarchal Society
  • Pedestrian Initiatives
  • Pedestrian Problems
  • People-based-event
  • Petition
  • Poverty
  • Public Schools
  • Recycling
  • Reverse Economic Pyramid (BoP)
  • Sharing economy
  • Sharing Stories
  • Simple tools/Primitive Engineering
  • Small-scale
  • Smoke-free
  • Social Activism
  • Social Campaign
  • Social Capital
  • Social Innovations
  • Social media
  • Social Protest
  • Solidarity
  • Stencils
  • Storytelling
  • Strong Community
  • Success
  • Taking initiative
  • TED talks
  • Traditional Society
  • Training for IDPs
  • Transparency
  • Troubled Times
  • Trust
  • Universities
  • Urban Planning Activism
  • Verbal Abuse
  • Voluntarism
  • Web Development
  • Working together

We Act:

  • Ahuahu Foundation
  • Ain-Elbee'ah
  • Al Mu'tamidia baladna
  • Armenian Progressive Youth
  • Biogas
  • Caucasusartmag
  • Change Your Opinion
  • Community Access Centers
  • Cyclehack
  • DRR center
  • Educate-me
  • Elva
  • GDG Tbilisi
  • Girls Who Code
  • Guerrilla Gardening
  • H2020
  • Hack Me Some Land Registration
  • Iare Pekhit
  • Internet Forum Tbilisi
  • JumpStart
  • kartag.com
  • Mapture
  • Media
  • Medicine for All
  • Reform Studio
  • Save Theghut movement
  • Sky School Yerevan
  • SmokeFree Tbilisi
  • Social Media
  • SPF Workshop
  • Swap Shop Yerevan
  • UNDP
  • Uni Hack
  • Viral Academy
  • Viral Academy Georgia
  • wehelp.ge

We are:

  • Youth
  • Gender Activists
  • IT Organization
  • Web developer
  • Media
  • Informal Social Group
  • IT students
  • NGO
  • Community
  • Grass-root movement

Where:

  • Adjara
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Cairo
  • Capital
  • Egypt
  • florence
  • Georgia
  • Gori
  • Milan
  • parks
  • Stockholm
  • Tbilisi
  • town
  • UK
  • US
  • Vake Park
  • Village
  • Yerevan
  • Zedargani

Our Challenges:

  • Bureaucracy
  • Competitiveness in NGO world
  • Education
  • HR
  • Indifference
  • Individualism vs Collaboration
  • Infrastructure
  • Involvement of civil society
  • Lack of decision making
  • Lack of information
  • Lack of medical care
  • Lack of motivation
  • Lack of publicity
  • Lack of supporters
  • Lack of transportation
  • Lack of trust in government
  • Lack of trust in technology
  • Landslides
  • Language barrier
  • Legal help
  • Legislation
  • Policy implementation
  • Prejudice towards people
  • Skepticism
  • Technical
  • Using ER platform

Reactions to our posts:

  • Learned something new
  • Plans for Cooperation
  • Interest in financing
  • Interest in reactions
  • Interest in implementation
  • Interest in self sustainability
  • Similar initiatives
  • Interested in political dimension
  • Interested in statement
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What makes a code?

Nice work, Inga. I have a couple of questions:

  • What makes a code a code? How do ethnographers choose an appropriate ontological level for an object of interest? I notice for example you have “coding” but also “app making” and “web development”, which are subsets of coding.

  • Related to the above: are codes organized in a theasurus? (Example: “coding” is the top term for “all making”)?

I encourage @noemi, @gazbia_sorour, @khatuna, @marina.n and whoever else is interested to stay on top of this process. Does this preliminary scan make sense to you?

Great start indeed.

Something I would add to the list of codes, and I know where to find the posts but don’t know what your process is Inga so don’t want to interfere:

We act:

  • Jozour
  • Vake Park

We are:

  • advocacy organisation
  • environmental activists
  • Start up

Challenges:

  • free education
  • lack of funding
  • lack of international support
  • quality education
  • urban planning/infrastructure

Bits and pieces of methodology

Hi,

good questions! Let me get to them straight after I introduce the methodological approach I am following. It is based on  Karin Liebhart lectures in and I will summarize it here.

  1. Preliminary coding. Review transcript (in this case - relative ER groups),  discover important aspects in the transcript - aka preliminary codes which can be refined later.

1.1 Identify key themes/patterns in respective units of text

1.2 Start sorting these identified themes/ issues/ patterns

  1. Develop codes. Codes are a criteria of description, aka words/phrases that serve as labels for sections of data

  2. Identify all data relating to these codes, that is extract text that matches specified labels. Codes can be revised during the process.

4.  Figure out relations between these codes, build clusters/ identify relevant categories

4.1 Identify relations between themes, sub-themes – how are they linked (for example through causal chains) in the view of the participant of forum discussions?

4.2 Cluster themes, figure out particularly relevant categories

4.3 Search for irritations (the unexpected data/codes that does not follow existing pattern)

4.4 Describe content of categories in detail (back to original text) and find relating examples and quotations

  1. Systematic contrasting of cases (in this case - countries: Georgia, Armenia, Egypt)

What is here, it is a produce of step 1 and a basis for step 2. Steps 4 and 5 will be done with RQDA after coding all the relative information.

As you noticed, @Alberto, there are some codes that probably should be merged under one label (like - app making into coding)

What makes code a code? Personally, I love this quote:

"Just as a title represents and captures a book or film or poem’s primary con-

tent and essence, so does a code represent and capture a datum’s primary

content and essence". (Saldana 2008:3).

He continues stressing out that codes are very individual and each researcher would have a personal idea how to arrange the text/extract the appropriate amount of meaning from it:

“Coding is not a precise science; it’s primarily an interpretive act”.(ibid:4)

Hence in this case this is a starting kit of codes that in my opinion capture the meaning of text in the SPF discussions and is on the middle ground between very detailed and very abstract labels. I agree that some of them look more abstract (such as trust) and some more detailed (such as big family) but I will redefine them as I go.

As to the second question, codes are organized more like umbrella terms for units of meaning in the text, but I guess thesaurus could be considered as a skeleton of this umbrella.

In addition to that, I have a question/suggestion: what about making (a) focus group discussion(s) during the final event? @Alberto, I think it would be more interesting and more useful for the research than just a feed back on the draft paper as the participants will be the same who participate online and then they could express more in-depth perspective on the issues identified from their talks online.

Love the idea

Good thinking, Inga. We will reserve time for doing focus groups in Tbilisi. How much time do you need?

Also: what is the name of the software you like to use for ethnography?

just a question

I have no idea about Ethnography but it’s enlightening to see all this “code” in one place.

and I am just wondering is it possible to have a visualization like the one for the twitterstorm which could be clickable and interactive so people can browse STF according to whatever they r interested in .

r u going to do something like that eventually or what’s the next step for this “code”

No way :slight_smile:

No, @Hazem, this would be way too complicated. What Inga is doing is… she is doing ethnography. :slight_smile: You will learn more about this in Tbilisi, if you are interested.

OR assigning tags to posts?

Well, probably not a visualisation, but what we can do is work the codes in the followup to make all the STF content easily accessible/ searchable. I hear @Matthias is working to render Inga’s coding color visible to a content manager user or site admin. The next step would be for us content managers to Edit all posts/wikis and manually assign the codes as tags, so that whenever someone searches for those terms on the website all the content tagged with a term shows up nicely.

We’d post the STF mindmap Inga mentions below somewhere on the site with instruction to search the codes. But that should be some work, let’s assess this in Tbilisi!

@Alberto I would like to learn more about this for sure in Tbilisi

and yes tags would help alot @Noemi , am up for it when the code is finalized (assigning tags to posts )

@Alberto, I believe that 1-2 hours for a focus group would be enough. I imagine 6-8 people in one focus group, preferably representing different countries. Or we could do 3 focus groups for all three countries respectively. 3 focus groups would give more material to analyze, that is for sure. @Hazem, I could do visualization, but not interactive: more like mind-map, where a web would represent codes gathered around categories. RQDA, a program of my choice can do it.

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Definitely just one!

I definitely think we should not divide people across country lines, but rather take full advantage of STF’s comparative perspective. Fair enough, let’s do it. I suggest you, Inga, propose a Futurespotters session. Instructions here.

@Alberto, so I just do 1 group for all? Is it possible to set a limit of participants?

Yes and yes. Explain what you want to do in the session: if you can’t deal with more than X people, it’s ok to set a limit. Don’t be shy to approach specific people if you think you need them involved.

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Found in the data

Hi there,

Just a quick comment so far, of what I’ve been digging in the data. Here is the list of the different ethno codes extracted:

challenges

traditiona-solutions

no-motivation

psychological

financial-insecurity

er-platform

legal-help

no-supporters

education

environmenta

no-language

legislation

compete-ngo

indifference

no-transport

hr

traffic

littering

policy-implement

technical

no-publicity

motherhood

prejudice

no-trust-government

react

interest-financing

similar-initiatives

interest-statement

interest-public-reaction

interest-implementation

interest-political-dimension

actor

ngo

entrepreneur

lawyer

yoga instructor

engineer

documentary-maker

media

human-rights-worker

historian

development worker

it-organization

journalist

designer

undp

student

teacher

pilot

urban researcher

youth

architect

peace-corps

blacksmith

topic

prioritizing

gender-equality

open-mind

active-participation

unemployment

hierarchy

cyclist-events

mixed-media

protest

stencils

material-gain

envir-community call

homeschooling

design-thinking

common-goals

freelance

inclusion

disability

globalization

international-support

passive

geo-futurespot

edu-initiative

presentation

petition

participatory-democracy

motivating

out-of-box

envir-campaign

personal-changes

maslov

data-visual

collective-initiatives

success

international conflict

rural-development

online-activism

making-art

accesibility

logistics

patriotism

energy

carpool

startup

challenges

invention

children-edu

community-radio

billboard

forced-marriage

transport

small-scale

social-activism

social-enterpreneurship

real-action

alternative-ed

final conference

cooperation

critical-mass

infrastructure

transparency

localization

marketing

team-work

various-interests

smoking-public

pedestrian-problems

poverty

online-offline

social-capital

empowerment

assistance-to-mothers

career

edu-private-public

informal-economy

forprofit-corporation

passion-for-change

love-your-job

public-schools

economic-literacy

plan-for-change

open-source-software

fundraising

family

govenrmental-institutions

marginal

self-sustainbl

recycling

coding

preservation

creating-jobs

urban-planning

top-bottom

public-space

pedestrian-initiatives

research-team

trust

cv

bottom-up

info-spread

leading

urban-planning-act

storytelling

project-management

copy-rights

foreign-support

ted

learning-culture

time-managing

edu-quality

social-innovation

stf-approach

common-resources

political-participation

verb-abuse

privacy-protection

charity

illiteracy

no changes

couching

agriculture-produce

market-activism

values

offline-meeting

open data

hacking

history

troubled-times

social-media

network-science

flight-simulation

intl-labor-migration

cbo

social-science

health lifestyle

simple-tools

sharing-experience

border

informal-edu

needs

maps

institutional-support

learning-together

gender-issues

minimum-wage

direct-communication

election-monitoring

coworking-space

taking-initiative

establishing-contacts

computer-literacy

solidarity

envir-friendly

harrasment

gender-stereotypes

strong-community

analysis

cycle-friendly

voluntarism

crafts

representation

institutions

place

romania

alexandria

egypt

cairo

prague

lebanon

stokholm

malaysia

milan

canada

turkey

goris

italy

village

mountains

baharia-oasis

india

park

azerbaijan

ankara

germany

armenia

gori

kazakhstan

ukraine

europe

georgia

vake-park

us

sweden

uk

tbilisi

yerevan

action

tbilisi-makerspace

utopian-lab

uni-hack

ahuahu

elva

h2020

garni-community

carrotmob

mashtotz-park-movement

open-maps

watsi

think-space

armenian-youth

noat-nour

pechakucha

citybugs

arkeb-eh

internet-forum-tbs

cairo-sitters

tweetyourmep

bicycle-collective-tbilisi

romania-pozitiva

sky-school-yerevan

vake-park-protest

reform-studio

wehelp

iare-pekhit

viral-academy

recyclobekia

cilas

ice-cairo

cyclehack

educate-me

georair

bos7awalek

drr-center

las-indias

pinkge

rain-gate

efyd

hack-me

education-square

acct

oasis-game

tata

cenn

coopge

smokefree-tbilisi

elbeeah

jozour

ana-mubasher

anti-harrasment

feradi

nocoal

cowbird

girls-code

mapture

medicine-for-all

projec-human

megobruligzebi

makerfox

harrasmap

fixmystreet

community-access-centers

kartagcom

gozoor

united-estonia

nfearmenia

biogas

swap-shop-yerevan

clustercairo

bussy-project

change-your-opinion

rasheed

theghut

gezi-park

guerrilla-gardening

no-creativity

unmonastery

jumpstart

tiflis-hamkari

sensecamp

almutamidia

future-newspaper

lets-create-smile

awesome-foundation

edgeryders

edgeryders

on a SNA point of view, the ethno-tagging concerns so far 262 interactions across 97 users