Posts by Daisy:
Carolyn Ellis + autoethnography
A true hero of mine, and former prof, Carolyn Ellis, has been on my mind lately b/c I’m re-working the third chapter of my dissertation. This is going to be the longest one b/c of its defining of methods and then the data itself. I’ve been moving a lot of information around but I believe I’ve finally found a logical way to discuss both digital writing research (or virtual ethnography) and autoethnography:
I feel being a digital writing researcher complements autoethnographic studies since both push the primary investigator to find new ways of understanding. As the edited collection Digital Writing Research contends, “Because of the complexity of researching in digitized spaces…researchers should ‘embrace working across methodological interfaces’, pursuing multiple methodologies while continually engaging in critical, reflexive practices” (McKee and DeVoss 17). “Doing digital research is not merely a matter of shipping old methods and methodologies to a new research locale” (Porter, “Foreword” xvi), which echoes Ellis’s definition of autoethnographic approaches as ones that “do no follow a rigid list of rule-based procedures” (16). The interdisciplinary nature of the Internet engages scholars in innovative ways, and learning to both approach research subjects and collect data requires new techniques.
I will share more about my use of a wiki to collect my interactive interview data as I polish up the profiles of my participants this week and next, but for now I wanted to link to Jeffrey Keefer’s live blog post about Carolyn’s latest book, Revision. I haven’t finished reading all of it, but the opening chapters have been quite helpful to turn to the past 2 weeks. It’s reminded me of being in her classroom at USF and how the best [in terms of emotionality and story] writing I did in my PhD program was in her course, rather than the many literature and rhetoric courses I took!
Twittering profs
Keeping up with this “hero” theme is going to be difficult on days when I want to talk about social media best practices, but oh well… Check out the following links for some uses of Twitter in and out the classroom, from USNews&World Report [with the teacher's reflections posted here], the Bedford Bits blog, and [...]
FY,YFF
A blogging hero, Ashley Morris, became best known for this post written 3 months after Katrina. So many comments, so representative of the seemingly indescribable trauma Hurricane Katrina brought on to so many New Orleanians like myself. Read this Chris Rose column,“We’ll miss the blogger next door” [and the comments left under it] to learn [...]
NaBloPoMo
Being that it’s June 1st and I’ve neglected my blog for too long, I’ve decided to attempt completing NaBloPoMo this month. The theme is “heroes,” which should tie in with my dissertation writing about Hurricane Katrina survivor bloggers, right? To get the ball rolling I thought I would share a story that’s got a few [...]
My 15 tweets of fame
The brief story is here–you’d think my spoken word could’ve been edited for grammar & style, huh? Also, go here and here to read about other great uses of Twitter in the classroom.
we live in public
We Live In Public TRAILER from We Live in Public on Vimeo. This film looks amazing, in that freaky kind of way. “The Truman Show for everyone” [and don't get me started on how great that Philip Glass PBS documentary was] describes We Live in Public as a “90-minute documentary about the Internet pioneer-turned performance [...]
online influence
Might these 2 be connected? and “Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up” which reveals that children in the UK are “to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication.”
CCCC09 link roundup & SIG promotion
I’m sure I will edit this post to include more links later, but I’ve had several tabs open for the past few weeks and then yesterday received an email from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives with the link to my video contribution. So here we go: Devon’s post on my CCCC Presentation: A(Re)mediating Social [...]
a focus on Twitter
While I created this new site over a month ago, I’ve wasted some time trying to gain access to my former blog’s content, particularly the “social software” category. It looks like I may just recreate some of those posts here, as I’ve decided to make the primary focus of this space to track the use [...]
Welcome to my new site!
Hello everyone! After trying to regain access to my USF Doctor Daisy blog for weeks now, I finally bit the bullet and bought my own domain name! More posts and widgets and plug-ins to come, but if you’re ever interested in what I’m doing, in 140-characters or less, you can follow me @phdaisy on Twitter. [...]