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Visual Culture, Visual Methods: PhD course (again! 2015!)
Explore visual culture and methods with us! To enact and explore ideas about visual culture, visual methods, and aesthetic futures, we build the course around the Northside music festival in Aarhus. The course begins two days prior to the festival, when we’ll meet in a classroom environment. Then, during the festival we will use the festival as a laboratory for different types of empirical studies. We will focus on the exploration of how visual impressions and expressions, including digital visual media (such as Instagram, mobile camera, website) interweaves with (maybe reinforces, maybe contradicts?)the participant’s experience of the music festival.
briefly: writing for process vs. writing for product
What’s the difference between writing for process and writing for product or publication? I am asked this methods question frequently enough to respond in a blogpost.
Skagen Conference on Transgressive Methods 2014
Late November is an appropriately gloomy time to gather in a wild and windy retreat to contemplate what constitutes ‘transgressive methods,’ ‘academic inquiry,’ and ‘innovation’ in ’21st Century research practice.’
agency and algorithmic identity: thinking aloud…
Whether or not there is intention or motive in the response of Google Search as I type in the URL search bar, there is agential force. If we want to understand algorithmic identity, these interactional instances are usefully reconstructed as utterances.
Study visual culture, visual methods at Aarhus, June 2015 (PhD course)
Join us Summer 2015 in Aarhus University for a great (we think) PhD course: Visuality, culture, methods: Exploring the aesthetics of possibilities. The course will include lectures, fieldwork during the Aarhus Northside music festival, and post festival production.
Why methods textbooks fail to adequately address “the digital”
Why can’t I find a qualitative methods textbook that adequately represents the challenge of doing research in/with/of what we might call the digital, technological, internet, online, or networked? Here’s my short answer.
The dialogue of evidence: A Summary
The dialogue of evidence: A Summary Annette Markham In 1994, the Western Journal of Communication produced a special issue (V58, N1) called “The dialogue of evidence: A topic revisited.” This special issue revisited a previous special issue by the same...
Digital Living Summer School: 2014 in Aarhus
Our first annual summer school will be held August 11-22, 2014, in Aarhus, Denmark. A lineup of fantastic international scholars will give lectures, facilitate workshops, and engage in creative making with students.
Creating Lit Reviews as Arguments
Why write a lit review as an argument? The argument format of writing encourages you to build claims supported with evidence or reasoning. Stating your points as declarative statements (that could be answered true/false on a quiz) can help you discover your own attitudes, believes, and values….etc….