Day: December 23, 2009

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-12-23

  • Will work on the gradebook tonight for my Business Communication course that begins on January 2. #
  • Enjoying La Boheme on PBS right now. Did not know they recorded the opera as a "movie." #
  • Wonder if the #BlackBerry service is back up? #
  • I can't believe BlackBerry service is down again. This is the second time in a week. #
  • RT @tweetmeme BlackBerry Outage Affecting North America http://bit.ly/8233JD #

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Research Method Ideas for the Project

As I have generally received positive feedback for the “ambitious” direction I am headed (regarding the research project that I have been designing here over the past few weeks), I now want to think a bit about the method I am considering for this work, especially before I tighten up the problem and research question.

I was initially planning to use  phenomenography, though think that may not work due to the size limitations of the expected 3 participants, the limitations to the semi-structured interview questions I need to use (as phenomenography would require me to rigidly use the same questions with everybody–leading to the eventual categories), and given that I am not sure I will be able to categorize much as this is an exploratory study.

I am now thinking about using some form of ethnography, something that blends the ethnography of Wittel with that of Hines and Efimova, perhaps in a more Focused manner, similar to that detailed by Knoblauch. I expect to conduct interviews and possibly review blogs or other social media as examples of the participants’ work, as needed. I will get more specific here as a next step, after I (hopefully) get some feedback first.