Pre-data collection meeting notes

Narrative note: At this point, I’d found the newsletters of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario. I knew they contained something interesting, but we had to figure out what was worth investigating.

• Could do a prosapography (a collective biography) of contributors
• Conference theme of “Computing Knows No Borders”: clearly an optimistic take
• Who is missing from contributors? What voices/perspectives/sectors aren’t found in Output?
• Content analysis: could consider the people involved or what they discussed (or some combination of both)
• How did contributions change with time?
• What were the hopes? Why werepeople willing to dedicate time to this [educational computing and/or Output]?
• Studying articles and collecting some authorship information to allow basic demographic analysis
• Articles to read: Edward Ayers, “Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future?”; Chad Gaffield, “The surprising ascendance of Digital Humanities”