1. ALYSSA NASCA DIGITAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER SUPERVISORS: ASHLEY JESTER MARY GIUNTA Digital Centers Internship

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 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 Image from NVivo User Guide Homepage

4. Issues Encountered 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 It was a bit frustrating at first!

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.e du/indiv/dssc/nvivo_gui de.html http://library.columbia.e du/indiv/dssc/nvivo_gui de.html

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