social media, methods, and ethics
ethnography
From Network Analysis to Network Sensibilities: Part I
Nov 30th
(First of a four-part essay on my recent thoughts about using a network perspective in qualitative studies of internet-related contexts)
Maybe it’s the pretty pictures generated by big data.
Maybe it’s the impulse to unfocus the analytic gaze from location to locomotion.
Whatever. The question that prompted me to start thinking about network More >
Kenneth Gergen, on the way from Goffman to Method as Ethic.
Mar 3rd
…or, similar song, different decade.
Today, in thinking about research methods, I am thinking about symbolic interactionist practices, Goffman and the performance of everyday life, and reading Kenneth Gergen’s Relational Being (Oxford Press, 2009).
It seems to me that to grapple with the complexity of everyday life, from a symbolic interaction perspective, More >
