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slower, softer
Let me just frame this by saying that I am at the business end of trying to construct a doctoral thesis on the implications for cultural citizenship of vernacular creativity in “new media” contexts. I use radically mixed methods and my concept maps always start with ‘worms-eye’ views. I try to live up to the…
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complexity, pragmatism, critique
According to Theory, Culture and Society we are having a complexity turn. From John Urry’s introduction to the special issue on the topic: Overall, complexity approaches both signify and enhance a new ‘structure of feeling’; one that combines system and process thinking…such an emergent structure involves a sense of contingent openness and multiple futures, of…
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Bringing Theory Home
Lilia Efimova has been thinking about the academic’s desire to explore and hunt down treasures deep in “theory land”, and how best to reconcile that with the ethics of research – by which both she and I mean something much more than the functional applied ethics that are represented by the hoop-jumping processes of getting…
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Activating the research ‘subject’
I’ve been aware of David Gauntlett’s ArtLab project at Bournemouth Media School’s Centre for Creative Media Research for a while, and keep meaning to post briefly on it. The ArtLab studies represent a new type of research in which media consumers’ own creativity, reflexivity and knowingness is harnessed, rather than ignored. In these studies, individuals…
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qualitative research
Nice list of qualitative research methods books from Anne, who is v. good at sharing.