I did an internal talk today, trying to put in a coherent story some results from two studies and emergent ideas about conclusions for my dissertation. I’m not extremely happy with what came out of it, but in case someone wants it – it’s at Slideshare.
Some comments on the stuff covered:
- Study 1 is an analysis of my own blogging practices as related to the development of ideas for the PhD dissertation. It’s an autoethnography that uses my weblog as an input to reconstruct my uses of weblog as a personal knowledge base and as a tool to support process of idea development from early stages to final products. Lots of unsorted background reading is in PhD/Chapter 3 category.
- Study 2 is an analysis of 6320 posts of 34 KM blogs in 2004. The visuals don’t make that much sense without an explanation, which is too complicated to write here. Some background is at:
- The last part is an attempt to use ideas from the research about the conditions for emergent social processes in cities (background reading) to explain how satisfying personal interests results in social effects in the case of weblogs and other tools.
Both studies also exist as PhD chapter drafts that I can share with those really interested; final part will appear in some form in the conclusions of my dissertation, due end of the summer.
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Hi!
Just thought I would drop you a comment to say I found your slides very useful..especially the reference to urban theory. While I’m here I might as well state the obvious and say I think your blog is great and that I respect your bravery in sharing stuff like this that you’re not so happy with. It’s a cool thing and something more academics need to do.
Martin
PS – I’m doing a phd on the use value of Livejournal for a cohort of Russian environmentalists, if you want to share super fun blog talk sometime. No pressure!
Martin, would love to talk on LJ research, but picking up the timing is a bit tricky… Feel free to email if you think there is a specific issue where I can help.