Notes from my talk in Helsinki
Just finished this talk: Boundary Work: Ethnographic methods for social media research. All my talks are beginning to overlap, which is not a bad thing. Just another sign that everything relates to everything else. For my ppt images plus notes, click here. (4.4 MB. Lots of images)
Read MoreWhat is the “field” in virtual research contexts?
This is an old topic. And in fact, an old excerpt from a talk I gave in Trondheim, Norway, in 2002. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and I wonder how this gets modified when applied to social media contexts, beyond the obvious shift from virtual-only contexts to more hybrid forms of connection. Talking with anyone formally or informally marks a significant shift from observer to participant, or more forcefully, accomplice. Online, once we participate in the context, we begin to co-construct the spaces we study (Markham, 1998). This is not a minor point. Our interaction with participants are not simple events in these online spaces, they are organizing elements of these spaces. In other words, we participate in constructing the very phenomena we...
Read MoreRemix Methods talk at Transforming Audiences 3, London 2011
Here are slides from my presentation at the Transforming Audiences conference in London on September 2, 2011. It’s a rough sketch of my argument in 13 minutes. I had an excellent time doing it, got a decent question from Sonia Livingstone, and some good conversation with Andrea Press after.
Read MoreBriefly, about practice theory and organizing.
Reading about practice theory (or practice based studies) applied to organization studies. Nice overview of the path of practice based thinking by Silvia Gherardi, writing an Introduction to a special issue of Management Learning called “The Critical Power of the ‘Practice Lens’” Notable in this introduction is the critique of Wenger’s Communities of Practice (I’ve long admired Wenger’s concepts because of the way they dismantle traditional top down notions of learning (and managerial authority, if one is thinking in terms of organizational learning). Here, the author discusses recent work to reverse the terms in ‘communities of practice’ to ‘practices of a community.’ This reversal, Gherardi contends,...
Read MoreThis site may grow into an blog of my research notes and musings. Meanwhile, it may be useful as a repository of draft articles and my CV materials.
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