I’m not sure I have a cogent response this week, but rather impressions I had from the reading. If I were to do am ethnographically inspired study—and I suppose I am, since I’m hoping my dissertation will make use of case studies or focus groups—I’d be (and am) absolutely petrified of receiving an email similar […]
This post could be a recipe for disaster: it is 10:19, I’m a bit tired and hungry, and I’ve got a massive head-ache. I’ve been using the term half-baked a lot today, and to continue that theme, I’m going to apologize up front if my ideas seem, well, a bit half-baked. I’m going to […]
Kirsch’s text came at an excellent time for me to read. Throughout the last few weeks I had been working through several questions regarding feminist pedagogy, and many of these questions were raised by Kirsch; while I did not always find her “answers” to be terribly in-depth (several times the questions just lead to more […]
My response this week goes hand in hand with the questions I have for Mary Sheridan. As I’ve mentioned before, this is the first official methodologies course I’ve taken, but I did have peripheral knowledge of what an ethnography was coming into the course (I’m happy to say I knew of triangulation—even if I wasn’t […]
My one sentence question/lead in: I think McKee and Porter bring to the forefront some important ethical dilemmas in online research involving human subjects. I read Em’s blog post last week, and I wanted to start by saying I agree with a lot of what she said–and I’m hoping to hear more of her thoughts […]