Met with my adviser
As the titles says I met with my adviser and some useful stuff came out of the meeting.
First thing to come out of this is that I will end up picking a handful or raids and talking about them at least as it comes to direct observation... I think it will end up being about ten raids
I also need to be more concrete about what it is I want to observe I have talked about lived experience but what is it I want to look at, measure, quantify or qualify
I need to be able to break the raid up into components and together my advisor and I worked to figure out what it was i really should focus on.
First I need to break down the raids in terms of constituents, then I need to obnserve the talk at the raids, what language to people use what do they say?
Since I am interested in interactions I should note interesting interaction s and the relationships that exist between raiders. I need to pay attention to regulars and to roles that people adopt. It is from my notes about regulars that I will have a pool of people to interview over e-mails, msn, aim or whatever.
My adviser and I decided I would not lead raids because I would be too busy observing them and that it was probably a good idea that I not make an auto ethnographic project. While my perspective can be interesting this can't be all about me.
So I will be rewriting the methods section of my proposal and sending it to her and then at some point stop observing the raids and work on my interviews instead. I think I will observe maybe a few more raids and then it will be time for my interviews. My interviews will then be the central focus of my time in the field until I have to leave.
Part of my work will involve diving into the logs and making a version of them as part of my notes and I am not looking forward to that but I think it will be interesting...
Oh and a list of some future posts include
1) A structural analysis of Hamidon raiding
2) Leeching and the break down of social order
3)Some specific raid moments
I am wondering if at some point I may not want to write an informal guide for CoH and Hamidon raiding... but we will see about that later
Theory: When people talk about the raids and interact with each other during the raids they position themselves vis a vis the raids and in so doing construct their understandings of the raid.
First thing to come out of this is that I will end up picking a handful or raids and talking about them at least as it comes to direct observation... I think it will end up being about ten raids
I also need to be more concrete about what it is I want to observe I have talked about lived experience but what is it I want to look at, measure, quantify or qualify
I need to be able to break the raid up into components and together my advisor and I worked to figure out what it was i really should focus on.
First I need to break down the raids in terms of constituents, then I need to obnserve the talk at the raids, what language to people use what do they say?
Since I am interested in interactions I should note interesting interaction s and the relationships that exist between raiders. I need to pay attention to regulars and to roles that people adopt. It is from my notes about regulars that I will have a pool of people to interview over e-mails, msn, aim or whatever.
My adviser and I decided I would not lead raids because I would be too busy observing them and that it was probably a good idea that I not make an auto ethnographic project. While my perspective can be interesting this can't be all about me.
So I will be rewriting the methods section of my proposal and sending it to her and then at some point stop observing the raids and work on my interviews instead. I think I will observe maybe a few more raids and then it will be time for my interviews. My interviews will then be the central focus of my time in the field until I have to leave.
Part of my work will involve diving into the logs and making a version of them as part of my notes and I am not looking forward to that but I think it will be interesting...
Oh and a list of some future posts include
1) A structural analysis of Hamidon raiding
2) Leeching and the break down of social order
3)Some specific raid moments
I am wondering if at some point I may not want to write an informal guide for CoH and Hamidon raiding... but we will see about that later
Theory: When people talk about the raids and interact with each other during the raids they position themselves vis a vis the raids and in so doing construct their understandings of the raid.