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Friday, October 25, 2002
Steph--
I could email this info to you, but since it might prove instructive to others developing abstracts, I'll post it here. My first question re: the abstract is when you ask what happens to group process? I would ask "as opposed to what"" The implication seems to be that it might be unique in some way, but how can you measure this?? I would recommend that you do some grounded theory work (or something like ethnogrpahy or phenomenolical sudy) and then you can look at what you have found in light of F2F group models. . Did you happen to find any articles form the foks i mentioned? Those might gove some ideas.
Another recommendation--cut down all the methodological approaches. between psychoanlytic theory, looking at cultural assumptionx (and who is defining those? Who is measuring?? Here intercoder reliatbility or the qualitative appraoch--member check-- would be important), and group process models, you have way too much here!! Surely, a dissertation's worth of work!!
So--overall, my recommendation are to think about what you want to study, your approach to the study, cut down on the methods and identify the units of analysis.
You have some great ideas here--and the study could prove useful in a variety of ways.
have a good weekend!!
Leda
4:14 PM
Thursday, October 24, 2002
I've just come from a fine establishment that unfortunately doesn't serve any drinks (though it really should!) - the library. Thought I'd contribute immensely to the class by telling you that the NY Times article that Kelly Gates referred to in "Wanted Dead or Digitized" can be found here. You might need to sign up with the NYT electronic news service before you can view the text. See you in class.
8:35 AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Hey bloggers.
so--and speaking of control, how much control do you really think the instructor/professor does/should have in graduate seminars such as thiis one?? Of course, in my critical pedagogy class when i have powed this question,the answer is always "give everyone an A" and at least the formal evaluative potential of power/contol becomes a nonissue. But control and power contune nonetheless. . .and have become perhaps more present in those classes as students then continue to evaluate who is "really working" who "knows their stuff" etc. The power/knowledge nexus is in operation. . .
But who wants to think about these things now?? Raz is probably uptown even as i write this-- contemplating the state of the universe in some fine establishment that takes passports as IDs ;^)
Leda
3:39 PM
Sunday, October 20, 2002
Hi--
Some veyr thought-provoking stuff here. I think that Wise's views of control (and of being subjects/objects within it) wre in the essay, if somewhat confiusing to folks. . . .
Re: MASS MoCA. PLEASE let me know what you all decide It's a great museum and highly relevant to a dicussion of performance/art and info/comm tehnology. Nonetheless, it's your call and no one is penalized if they don't go. I just need to be apprised of the situation.
Raz--I can make several suggestiions, including tracing the archeology of the MOOs and MUDs and the virtual rape case, Many, many articulles written on this that discuss the ways rules, sanctions and punishment create communities structures in cyberspace. Julian Dibbell, Pavel Curtis, Sherry Turkle are names off hand, but there are others.
hope everyone had a good weekend
3:16 PM
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