Time Plan for "Peace in Web 2.0"

This is my time plan for the project: ”Peace in Web 2.0”, which may be changed or updated in the future (in that case I will notify you). If there are any questions or if you have any feedback, don´t hesitate to e-mail me on edbertsson@gmail.com, or comment directly in this blog!

Pre-phase (June – September):

1st meeting with TFF

Specialization courses (15 hp) in Informatics at Umeå University ("Öppenhet på internet" and "Web 2.0: Begrepp, teknik och Innovation")

2nd meeting with TFF

Meeting with the TFF board

3rd meeting with TFF

Phase 1: Fieldwork preparation (18^th -27^th October)

- Planning Research: Read Robert V. Kozinets Netnography, revise timeplan and identify questions and need.

- Gathering Information and Literature: Find relevant articles and literature for the researchprocess

- Mapping relevant sources and resources: Compile a list with webpages and portals online that could be a resource for finding informants or a field itself and material for netnography.

- Identifying internal and external stakeholders and needs: Who will benefint from this research? Who are the users?

- Producing Blogg+Facebookpage: Produce some kind of ”research blog” where clients, stakeholders and others can follow the research, also- produce a facebookpage for recruiting informants and informing about the project.

- Start recruiting informants: When one or more webpages/portals have been selected, the recruiting process should be initiated as soon as possible.

Deliver revised Project Plan, time budget and status-report on 22th October

Phase 2: Fieldwork (28^th October-12^th November)

- Commence the netnography: This part includes the entree and participant observation in various social media, a number of qualitative interviews (preferably at least 5) online and in real life (irl) and, depending on time - an internet survey about usage and experiences of a social media platform.

- (Absence, 1^st November) Lecturing in Örnsköldsvik for Youth Against Racism

- Continue the recruiting process

- Going trough written sources

- (Absence, 11-12^th November) Participation at "Innovation In Mind 2010", http://www.innovationinmind.se/

Phase 3: Processing data (15-19 November)

- Selection of literature and sources: Which articles, webpages, books etc. should be included in the final presentation?

- (Absence 16^th November) Participation at ”Jag bor i Malmö”-(A youth conference)

- Transcribing interviews

- Compiling surveys

Phase 4: Analysis ( 22 November – 8 December)

- Analyzing processed data

- Idea generating process

- Deliver status-report on 26th of November

Phase 5: Production and Visual Presentation (9-17 December)

- Producing action-plan (with suggestions) and a Visual presentation for the future ProPeace Platform

Final presentation: 17th December

Post-phase (2011):

- Follow-up meeting with TFF in January