social media, methods, and ethics
general
Finally going to press, the Fabrication Article.
Oct 27th
Well, unless someone points out some egregious errors, I’m going to send this article off tomorrow for publication in Information, Communication, and Society (promises to be out before the end of the year!)
Abstract:
In this article, I briefly touch on some of the ethical dilemmas associated with protecting participants in internet-based social More >
Writing as Method notes from workshop in Helsinki
Sep 15th
Here are presentation images and notes from the workshop I did entitled Writing as Method. Helsinki, Finland, 16-09-2011. It feels a bit strange to put out these rough presentation notes, but it’s better than nothing, I suppose. As with other presentations I’m posting, the content is sketchy because these are speaker More >
Notes from my talk in Helsinki
Sep 14th
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)
What is the “field” in virtual research contexts?
Sep 8th
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 More >
Remix Methods talk at Transforming Audiences 3, London 2011
Sep 8th
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.
Briefly, about practice theory and organizing.
Apr 29th
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 More >
