ALYSSA NASCADIGITAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER

SUPERVISORS: ASHLEY JESTER MARY GIUNTA

Digital Centers Internship

IntroductionM.A. student in cultural

anthropologyThesis 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

NVivo and AnthropologyAbility to easily code qualitative data: Interviews Video Audio PicturesApplications 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 Image from NVivo User Guide

Homepage

Issues EncounteredTerminologyUnderstanding the uses of

different queriesUnderstanding how to get

the most out of NvivoGuides Currently Available:Visually unappealingOverwhelming amounts of

information in small fontsUnclear about how and

why certain tools were useful

It was a bit frustrating at first!

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

In Conclusion

The website will be fully up and running by mid-June

Any feedback or suggestions will be greatly appreciated

Thank you!