RE: [Air-l] Was Communication research Methods; now qualitative research methods
Hi Denise, I agree that _Landscapes of Qualitative Inquiry_ is a key text in qualitative research and very useful for laying out the various traditions of inquiry. This book is actually the first half of Denzin and Lincoln's _Handbook of Qualitative Research_, published as one unit in 2000 and split in two paperback books in 2003 (which makes it more affordable). You'll also be interested in the other half: _Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry_. Incidentally, they're in the process of putting together the 3rd edition. Cheers, Annette Markham
===== Original Message From "Denise N. Rall" <denrall@yahoo.com> ===== Dear Air-ers:
Going through my Endnotes, and found this very interesting new book. First time I've understood comprehensibly what the different methodological approaches in qualitative research are. Might not relate to comm. research, but excellent nonetheless.
The landscape of qualitative research : theories and issues / Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, editors.
Edition : 2nd ed. Imprint : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2003. Description : xi, 684 p. ; 23 cm.
Denise
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I just logged into Friendster again and through Matt Stoner, I now have close to 5000 people in that social network, though i know few of them. Matt of course thus would have all of those minus one, because I was somewhat uninterested in Friendster until i saw this new number. So thus I'm wondering if any other members of AoIR have played with Friendster and what have they found? Specifically, I'm wondering if this probably fits the old sixdegrees.com cloud system, and whether the core and periphery of those clouds are well defined, as they were at sixdegrees.com jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments
I connected to Friendster several months ago. Many of my friends from LambdaMOO and LiveJournal were on, and my network grew quite rapidly. I was hoping that it would be some interesting variante of sixdegrees.com Unfortunately, I didn't find anything useful in friendster; I had better ways to communicate with my network, so I pretty much left it idle. That was, until someone from the Howard Dean campaign mentioned friendster. I reconnected to find that my network was upto around 100K people. I found that 'Howard Dean' is in the network. I added him and I now have 165K friends. (As a side comment, 'God' is also on Friendster, and I believe that 'God' is a friend of a friend of mine. Actually searching for God, you find several choices. One of my more interesting connections to 'God' is Me <==> Howard <==> dubya <==> Jesus <==> God ) That said, I still haven't found any good use for it, and as it has grown it has gotten much more unreliable. Aldon --- jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I just logged into Friendster again and through Matt Stoner, I now have close to 5000 people in that social network, though i know few of them. Matt of course thus would have all of those minus one, because I was somewhat uninterested in Friendster until i saw this new number. So thus I'm wondering if any other members of AoIR have played with Friendster and what have they found? Specifically, I'm wondering if this probably fits the old sixdegrees.com cloud system, and whether the core and periphery of those clouds are well defined, as they were at sixdegrees.com
jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog
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Jeremy - i'm pretty actively studying Friendster. I'm also blogging all of the material that i can find: http://www.zephoria.org/snt/ Aldon - i'm sorry that you don't see the value of this system. I actually find it quite fascinating for the following reasons: 1) Identity presentation. People are actively trying to figure out how to present themselves in a ?public? manner on this site. They are constantly negotiating the context of Friendster and readjusting their presentation accordingly. 2) Articulated networks. What does it mean to publicly articulate one's social network? Who do you choose to indicate as a friend? What are the implications of that decision? This is quite different than behavior-driven networks. 3) Group/identity play. What does it mean to have fun with identity? Narratives get created around fake characters. People value the collapse of the network - why? 4) Meme spread. What is the spread of this meme across different social beehives? Who find is interesting? Why? What do they do with it? Now, this all assumes that "play" is an acceptable usage. I should note that there are plenty of people dating based on Friendster. This is a very useful element for people (and the intended purpose). Another important use is finding old friends and recognizing and interacting with familiar strangers (see rant on my blog). As far as use of networks, pay attention to the up-and-coming Tribe.net (pre-beta released this week). This site focuses on listings instead of sex, something that encourages less play, but more usefulness. Linked In is another one focused more on the job elements of the netowkr. Of course, i truly believe that the problem you are seeing is because of the articulated network aspect of this. I believe that it's necessary to focus more on behavior-driven networks if we're going to make this "useful." My long term answer to solving this is to focus on behavior-driven networks. [On an aside, i would not argue that 4 degrees are actually friends... just people in your network. Oh, and the problem is that you want to link to Howard Dean to show affiliation and shared interest with others connected. Friendster doesn't give you a better way to do this. There's no doubt that this is a weakness, but it does say something about people's motivations, no?] Anyhow, i could go on and on about uses of Friendster and would *love* to hear if others have thought about this system. danah On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Aldon Hynes wrote:
I connected to Friendster several months ago. Many of my friends from LambdaMOO and LiveJournal were on, and my network grew quite rapidly. I was hoping that it would be some interesting variante of sixdegrees.com
Unfortunately, I didn't find anything useful in friendster; I had better ways to communicate with my network, so I pretty much left it idle.
That was, until someone from the Howard Dean campaign mentioned friendster. I reconnected to find that my network was upto around 100K people. I found that 'Howard Dean' is in the network. I added him and I now have 165K friends.
(As a side comment, 'God' is also on Friendster, and I believe that 'God' is a friend of a friend of mine. Actually searching for God, you find several choices. One of my more interesting connections to 'God' is
Me <==> Howard <==> dubya <==> Jesus <==> God )
That said, I still haven't found any good use for it, and as it has grown it has gotten much more unreliable.
Aldon
--- jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I just logged into Friendster again and through Matt Stoner, I now have close to 5000 people in that social network, though i know few of them. Matt of course thus would have all of those minus one, because I was somewhat uninterested in Friendster until i saw this new number. So thus I'm wondering if any other members of AoIR have played with Friendster and what have they found? Specifically, I'm wondering if this probably fits the old sixdegrees.com cloud system, and whether the core and periphery of those clouds are well defined, as they were at sixdegrees.com
jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog
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yup, yup, i'm subscribed to your blog danah. I'm not as interested in the same thing in this system as you, though I work on similar topics in other systems. To me, friendster is a derivative technology of the original sixdegrees, and in that, sixdegrees had certain population characteristics, there were nodal regularities in network densities among groups. in short, there was one big cloud of people and then several small clouds. in the last week i think i've seen the same thing, though I don't ahve access to the numbers yet to show it, on friendster. a cloud is a group of people who are all connected and have similar network densities. peripheral members may be in many clouds of course because they are at the fringe of several density gradients.
Dear AIR-ers - I have tried to isolate a seminal text on communication theory as it relates to the formation of virtual communities - and failed! I have read broadly in communication, cyberculture (particularly from the titles included in the cyberculture canon list that went around recently) and anthropology, sociology, education. Clearly I am missing the forest for the trees and I am hoping for some light. Thanks, Denise ===== "Stupidity is not just a lack of content; it's also a process" Denise N. Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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