Between cultures
This time in Moscow was different – next to all other things I was running a kick-off meeting for a project (will tell more later – when marketing stuff is out :) with several European and Russian...
View ArticleStudying weblogs at Microsoft: ethnography?
Can my study of weblogs at Microsoft be qualified as an ethnography? I had an interesting conversation with Jonathan about it while I still was there and I was thinking about it since then. Today,...
View ArticleGood research…
While doing other things I’m in the middle of post-AOIR thinking on research methodologies, ethics and researcher’s responsibilities. I have to do all those other things, but I’m pretty sure that this...
View ArticleMeeting imaginary friend
Somewhere in the morning he asks: “Have you actually met Andrea?” “No.” And, feeling that I need an excuse, I add – “but I have stayed myself in the houses of bloggers I never met”. He smiles...
View ArticleCo-constructing: a story of weblog-mediated relationship
The idea of describing and analyzing our own weblog-mediated relationship came into life during one of our first Skype talks: despite of different backgrounds both of us were exploring weblog...
View ArticleWeblog research: artefacts and practices
My last post made me thinking on (actually drawing :) the distinctions between artefacts and practices in a context of weblog research (not theorethical at all): Blogging artefacts are “things” that...
View ArticleStretching academic conventions, me-as-an-author and rare rushes
Three fragments from a post by Bev Trayner on Reflexive project of the self : In our work we are purposefully stretching and crossing academic genre conventions by, among other things, presenting a...
View ArticleOn publishing autoethnography
Something to read for those seriousely looking at autoethnography for their research – Representation, Legitimation, and Autoethnography: An Autoethnographic Writing Story by Nicholas L. Holt Abstract:...
View ArticleWhen they read what we write: respondent identification
While reading a research report for the study where I was one of the respondents I realised that even while my quotes were identified with a nickname there would be quite some number of people who...
View ArticleKate Fox on participant observation and hidden rules of English behaviour
Yesterday, while changing planes in Stockholm I picked up a book written by an anthropologist Kate Fox – Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. The fun has started from the...
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