Annette Markham
social media, methods, and ethics
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.
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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 >
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 >
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 >
