This week has been mainly reading and digesting the other ethnographies; commenting on them; and responding to comments on my own study. I found the variety of submissions very refreshing, and picked up hints and tips around the benefits of transliteracy. I was particularly struck by the methods which Gina and Anabel used in documenting [...]
I’ve been watching the new pope being sworn in (does a pope get sworn in?) and all of the tradition and the pomp & circumstance which surrounds the occasion. Secrecy and intrigue are clearly paramount in this process, apparently the Sistene Chapel is swept on a daily basis to ensure no listening devices have been [...]
On an earlier post in which I attempted to very loosely assign attributes of the edcMOOC to the notion of ‘bund’, Jen set the following challenge: “Another bit of the Bund definition… “a place…”. Thoughts?” I’ve gathered together on the linked pinterest board a very shallow collection of ‘places’ which were occupied (and some are [...]
I have spent a lovely afternoon outside of my Tumblog reading and commenting on my colleagues’ virtual ethnographies. I am currently pondering boundaries, walls and place in on line communities. Image found at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/watso425/architecture/2008/02/
Panic (ethical dilemma), calm (new topic), panic (not working on Tumblog), calm (2 entries done), PANIC (media not working), calm (media working). To be continued… …It’s Thursday of week eight and I’m doing a weekly summary for week seven. This about sums up how far behind I feel that I have dropped in the last [...]
This was one of the artefacts that I was going to publish within my virtual ethnography on guerilla gardening. This is from Social Collider which reveals connections between conversations on Twitter. Apparently, it shows how a topic (here: guerillagardener) link or don’t link with other users or topics and the action is tracked temporally. Because [...]
Last week I had a last minute decision to change subject for my ethnography. I had wanted to keep with the themes of disruption and urbanisation that I’ve explored at times throughout this tumblog and so I was observing a guerilla gardening community. Whilst I was limiting the observations to publicly available discussion forums and [...]
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