New Blog and Dissertation Chapters for Participants
Now that teaching is back and I need to blog for that as well, I find I am getting blogging fatigue by trying to maintain all these sites with new content, but dems de breaks I suppose.
Just some quick info now:
I've decided to migrate my old research blog onto Wordpress, and I'll working to keep that site up to date with my research activities as they progress. I've added my CV, info for my research participants, and I'll soon be sharing details about the structure of my dissertation and things like that as they develop. I'll probably just use this LJ for commenting and following my flist, and I'll make a post directing people to that blog whenever it's update (for the foreseeable future, anyway).
You can find it here: http://fanthropology.wordpress.com/
And the other major thing: I will be distributing chapters of my dissertation for people who are interested to read -- For reals this time! If you were interviewed or involved or are just curious, please leave a comment or send me an email so that I can send some chapters on to you. Please also let me know how much / which ones you'd like to read. Thus far, the chapters are as follows:
Let me know if you're interested in reading some or all of the completed sections. I am looking for some feedback and constructive criticism, and would love to hear from you. A warning that a lot of it will be written in academic jargon (media and cultural studies, mostly).
Just some quick info now:
I've decided to migrate my old research blog onto Wordpress, and I'll working to keep that site up to date with my research activities as they progress. I've added my CV, info for my research participants, and I'll soon be sharing details about the structure of my dissertation and things like that as they develop. I'll probably just use this LJ for commenting and following my flist, and I'll make a post directing people to that blog whenever it's update (for the foreseeable future, anyway).
You can find it here: http://fanthropology.wordpress.com/
And the other major thing: I will be distributing chapters of my dissertation for people who are interested to read -- For reals this time! If you were interviewed or involved or are just curious, please leave a comment or send me an email so that I can send some chapters on to you. Please also let me know how much / which ones you'd like to read. Thus far, the chapters are as follows:
- Chapter 2: The Practice of Vidding (outlines the history, how vids are made, and other information like that)
- Chapter 3: Methodology (my methods and ethical policies, as well as some discussion on privacy in the vidding community)
- Chapter 4: Making Meaning (on the structure of vidding, meaning in televisual texts, and how vids manipulate the source, also discussion on the role of music in vids)
- Chapter 5: Gender and Paradigms (on how the social construction of gender may influence how vids are created, received, etc., as well as looking at vidding as a female audience)
Let me know if you're interested in reading some or all of the completed sections. I am looking for some feedback and constructive criticism, and would love to hear from you. A warning that a lot of it will be written in academic jargon (media and cultural studies, mostly).