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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...

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Studying 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,...

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Good 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...

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Meeting 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...

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Co-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...

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Weblog 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...

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Stretching 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...

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On 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:...

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When 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...

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Kate 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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