Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers

By K. Dewalt, B. Dewalt. 2001

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A Human-Centered Evaluation of a Deep Learning System Deployed in Clinics for the Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy (2020, methodology): “Before any system deployments, we conducted 26 hours of observation (adopting a non-member role [13]) across 11 clinics.”
The Pond You Fish In Determines the Fish You Catch (2007, unknown): “That is, “the researcher participates in and observes events as they arise” (DeWalt & DeWalt, 2002, p. 104).”
Fielding Climate Change in Cultural Anthropology (2009, background): “…fi eldwork and participant observation stems from the recognition that engaging in daily life and social relationships provides a contextual understanding of cultural realities that cannot be captured by structured survey methods alone (DeWalt and DeWalt 2002; Jorgesen 1989; Shensul et al. 1999).”
Ethical Challenges in Participant Observation: A Reflection on Ethnographic Fieldwork (2008, background): “It has been noted that the evolving researcher-participant relationship in field research is often conditioned by the researcher’s personal characteristics such as gender, race, and age (Dewalt & Dewalt, 2002; Ladson-Billings, 2003; R. H. Wax, 1979).”
The circular economy and the bio-based sector - Perspectives of European and German stakeholders (2018, methodology): “other business models not mentioned in documents) (DeWalt and DeWalt, 2002; Mills et al., 2010).”
Peer tutoring and social dynamics in higher education (2007, background): “I also observed the participants to achieve understanding of the nature of a phenomenon, rather than assessing its magnitude or distribution (DeWalt & DeWalt, 2002).”
An Agenda for Open Science in Communication (2020, background): “This approach allows other scholars to better understand their interpretive lenses, to better assess the quality of the findings, and to use or adapt these materials in their own research (DeWalt & DeWalt, 2011).”