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Digital Centers Internship

Digital Centers Internship. Alyssa Nasca Digital Social Science Center Supervisors: Ashley Jester Mary Giunta. Introduction. M.A. student in cultural anthropology Thesis Topic: The significance of Lady Gaga and her Little Monsters as a predominantly online sub-culture.

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Digital Centers Internship

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  1. Digital Centers Internship Alyssa Nasca Digital Social Science Center Supervisors: Ashley Jester Mary Giunta

  2. Introduction • M.A. student in cultural anthropology • Thesis Topic: The significance of Lady Gaga and her Little Monsters as a predominantly online sub-culture. • Three Main Sections: • American reliance on the nuclear family • The productivity of monsters • The new ways of being and relating offered by the social media platforms

  3. NVivo and Anthropology Image from NVivoUser Guide Homepage Ability to easily code qualitative data: Interviews Video Audio Pictures Applications to ethnography: Discovering themes and connections from interviews Organizing field notes and project materials Ability to create and export thoughts and/or notes about your data to your thesis

  4. Issues Encountered It was a bit frustrating at first! Terminology Understanding the uses of different queries Understanding how to get the most out of Nvivo Guides Currently Available: Visually unappealing Overwhelming amounts of information in small fonts Unclear about how and why certain tools were useful

  5. NVivo User Guide Goals of this Project: Easy to navigate structure (designed to match NVivo’s structure) Informative enough for a novice Succinct enough for a quick refresher Clear to understand and pleasing to view http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/dssc/nvivo_guide.html

  6. In Conclusion Thank you! The website will be fully up and running by mid-June Any feedback or suggestions will be greatly appreciated

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