social media, methods, and ethics
methodology
Dramaturgical Approach: What’s different about digital experience?
Feb 13th
I’m working on a chapter on Dramaturgy and Digital Experience and I’m working out how to structure the frame for the piece. I thought it might be useful to brainstorm here, as well as talk about the key question for me, which is: What makes digital experience different from everyday More >
Part III: Moving beyond the discrete to study the space of flows
Jan 17th
(From network analysis to network sensibilities: Part III)
Moving beyond the discrete to study the space of flows
Consider some of the persistent notions that arise in multiple disciplines over the past few decades: That what we consider an organization is a momentary freezing of flux and More >
Part II: Network Sensibilities as Generative Tool
Jan 17th
(From network analysis to network sensibilities: Part II)
Network Sensibilities as Generative Tool
Most directly, network analysis strategies promote visual mapping of key elements (nodes), connections between them, and the overall structure of the system. This type of visualization can be used in generative ways throughout More >
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 >
Remix Methods: Searching for Resonance (Part I)
May 22nd
As part of an ongoing project, this is my own remix, which means it will morph over time into something that has a different sort of coherence than you see here.
I’ve been musing over three recent events that compelled me to start writing about ‘fabrication’ as a valuable and ethical More >
Writing As Method: A PhD Workshop
Apr 4th
Writing as Method, a PhD workshop Wednesday, April 6 Aarhus University
“How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” Starting with the assumption that “research procedure constructs reality as much as it produces descriptions of it” (Gubrium & Holstein, 1997, p.9), this workshop focuses on writing More >
Fabrication as ethical performance
Mar 5th
Traditional journalistic and sociological practice considers a person’s words to be freely available–if uttered publicly or with permission–to analyze and quote, as long as we anonymize the source. Prior to the internet, researchers took for granted the ability to safely store fieldnotes, interview transcripts, demographic data, and other information that 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 >
