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Visual Psychologies Conference

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:32:00 +0000

Yesterday I attended The 'Visual Psychologies' conference at the Leicester school of management. It was an erudite display of, not only, the diverse work that is being conducted in that department, but a wonderful representation of the growing argument for a purely discursive explanation of behaviour. The conference began with a talk by Paula Reavey entitled 'Back to Experience: Material subjectivites and the visual'. In this talk Dr Reavey grounded the visual in how people experience their social world through a illuminating use of empirical research. This presented data that embodied the subject as an expressive individual who is bound up with a material setting. This first talk set the scene for a strong inquiry into the visual that was only furthered by the second speaker, Carey Jewitt, who commented on 'Educational Research: A social semiotic multimodal approach'. This talk was mostly based on the visual stimuli that children come in contact with in a school setting. I particularly enjoyed the reference to the body position of the teacher in relation to the working model of the body and the blackboard. This showed how the body was reconfigured as visual plane that constructed knowledge through the layers of communication in the body.

Alan Bryman (who is head of the school of management) then had the difficult task of summarising the two talks that went before. He did an excellent job and reflected on three main points of the 1) participatory aspects of the visual 2) reflexivity of the researcher and 3) The role of the visual in the world and related this to the wider debate between conversation analysis and that which is outside the discursive. At the break this left a lingering question of what others forms of the visual should we be using. Thankfully, the answer to this question shone through in the second half of the proceeding. Firstly, Maggie O'Neils excellent display of 'Ethno-mimesis as performance praxis' showed how the complexity of lived experiences could be conveyed through art projects of particularly sensitive social groups: Of most striking was the collection of self images made by a group of prostitutes. The produced an 'alternative voice' for the subject involved and made clear how, in unlocking the visual, Maggie was able to tap into something much deeper. This was then followed by Janice Haaken short film about life behind the mental health system in Oregon named 'Insanity Defence'. This film used conversation with patients and staff to represent a number of wider issues within the system of mental health including the authoritarian role of the psychologist and certain class issues. The end of the day was wrapped up some open discussion that focused on the difference between a 'good' and 'bad' image. It was felt that an image doesn't need to be particularly artists to form good data on the embodied life-world of a participant. Steve Brown led the discussion towards a definitive version of what we mean by visual methods and showed how this has a myriad of meanings from the diverse range of the research. Needless to say the debate ran on late into the evening at the pub. I am now looking forward to travelling to the International Graduate Conference tomorrow hopefully that will be as thought-provoking as yesterday.

Conference Time

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:08:00 +0000

I am attending two excellent one-day conferences this week. This first is co-organised by my supervior (Steve Brown) and Paula Reavey entitled 'visual Psychologies'. This looks to be an excellent opportunity to discuss the increase of the the visual in a number of disciplines and how this relates to notions of subjectivity, discourse and organisation.Speakers here include Alan Bryman, Carey Jewitt, Maggie O'Neil. I will post most details of the conference tomorrow. The second is the International Graduate Conference (IGC 2008) taking place in Cambridge (for more general info see here) where I will be speaking on the challenge 'faced' by academics who use Facebook. Here is a crib of the Abstract:

... In 2005, Facebook was opened to a public network (whereas before users had to be connected through a school or college) and millions of people, young and old, snatched at the opportunity to connect with people all over the globe. This evidently brought many challenges into the 21st Century regarding SNSs including: privacy issues, data protection and searchability. There is also a collection of sub-issues that manifest with the enigmatic growth of Facebook. One potentially difficult issue is how academics can get the most out of Facebook without forcibly encountering the personal lives of their prospective students (this is based on a variety of studies finding that many students disclose personal information on these sites, see Stutzman, 2006). This recognises that there is a wealth of communication to be harnessed through Facebook, which can be incredibly useful at all levels of academia. The secret to unlocking this potential will be unpacked into three main areas: 1) the balance between Facebook as a useful tool for communicating with students and the traditional ways that Facebook is abused 2) the implications of combining institutional ‘blackboards’ with Facebook applications 3) how Facebook represents a natural progression of communication through the ages and not a unique phase in web 2.0 history that can be ignored. The challenge to the academic community is to take some simple steps that will maintain the equilibrium between students and staff who utilise Facebook.

The EEE pc giveaway

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:04:00 +0000

Following the comment stream on Engadget it is pretty clear that the initial reaction to the eeepc giveaway is not good. Read here to check out more. Basically, for a thirty-five pound contract T-mobile are offering a free eee pc and a mobile USB broadband connector. I have to say I agree with the numerous people who have posted on the engadget website - this is not a good deal. I pay fifteen pounds a month for my mobile braodband with 3, and that is more than enough (I actually only paid that much because on some occasions it is my only source of connection). But, the main beauty of the eepc is how cheap it is. My advice; if you want an eeepc, buy one.

MySpace loses to Wiki information

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Today I read a interesting argument on the 'Hacking MySpace' blog that stated how users turned to wiki's for more information than the MySpace blog of a particular band. I think I have to agree, when I am looking for band information (and by this I assume people mean tour dates and biographical information) wiki is the best place to go. However, I also do a large amount of searching through listening, for which, MySpace is excellent. I'm wondering if actually there might be a more convoluted relationship between information and the MySpace user. Could it be that a large number of users may look at wiki after doing some 'audio' research through MySpace first?

Also, how many users base their decision on where to look for information based on the perceived authenticity of the site? By this I mean to tap into the still nostalgic members of the MySpace community, who believe groups and bands maintain their own MySpace profiles. This may compare to the commonly accepted idea that wikis can be produced by anyone. One would also assume that the MySpace profile contains more up-to-date information. In light of this why do many poeple choose a wiki for information? The article seems to suggest that the 'glitz and glamour' of some MySpace pages may be off-putting to those users who are thirsty for information. And I agree, there are many ways that a wiki may seem easier to navigate, but to what extent could it also be related to situation issue of being 'caught on MySpace'. I wonder this as I walk around my university library where Facebook and MySpace are frowned upon. Is a wiki now a way of seeming to be in line with the institution while still achieving some personal interests? It is true that it would more difficult to frown upon wikipedia in the same light as it has some obvious educational uses. The regimented style of the wiki page makes it unrecognisable as a piece that is not directed towards a certain activity.I certainly think there are many ways the switch to wiki could be conceived, and a level of information is definitely one of those.

On a final note, it was great to read the line 'we all love MySpace'. For the time being Facebook seems to be growing exponentially and it is nice to read that some people still wrestle with the issues that go on in MySpace.

'Life on the Move': Social network sites and online communities

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:16:00 +0000

I would like to join Daniel Skog(here) in advertising our roundtable discussion at this years IR 9.0 conference in Copenhagen. We have a great collection of people coming together to discuss the tribulations involved with studing 'community' now that SNSs are dominating the online social landscape. Here is an extract from the roundtable description:

Social network sites (SNSs) like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace are rapidly becoming a popular area of research investigating online 'communities'. This immediately raises the question of how new SNSs can be understood as a descendent of the 'virtual community' that was popularized in the 1980's (Rheingold, 1993). One irrefutable piece of information is that the number of users that seem to be joining these new sites has been growing substantially over the last few years (i.e. comScore reported Facebook had an increase of 270% between June 2006 and June 2007). This could indicate that SNSs has become an integral part of everyday online activity as a whole. The purpose of this roundtable is to further discussions on the present shapes of online communities in light of the current trajectory of social network popularity. In particular, to what extent are online communities tied to a particular site? And consequently, how can we rethink notions of community in line with recent trends in SNSs?
[...] The underlying premise is that 'life on the move' produces a certain problem for academic researchers as to how we locate the individual (or the community) in such a dispersed social landscape. Therefore, how can we understand community involvement when users are members of a number of different community sites and SNSs and move regularly from one site to another? A further problem here is how we as researchers resist the mundane assumption that inherently complex online communities are only recognisable in terms of the users movement in and out of them, surely there is much more to it than that.

Already?

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:54:00 +0000

MySpace Games

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:40:00 +0000

MySpace is entering a brave new world by introducing games to be played accross the network. They include traditonal games like solitare and sudoku plus the introduction of some newer looking games like line rider (a game where you draw a slope in a paint-like function that then becomes the slope for your rider). The games are accesible from a link on the front page or by following this link. The games obviously lack a fair amount of sophistication that has come to be expected of online gaming in the last decade. But, perhaps, this is their appeal. I must admit they have a somewhat quirky nature and it seems that the games are intentionally designed to be cut and pasted effortlessly. This could be seen as an attempt to rival gaming such as 'scrabulous' that has become popular on Facebook.

Real Life vs Second Life

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:40:00 +0000

Last night there was an excellent show on BBC 2 as part of the Wonderland series that covered Seond Life. Here is the youtube link (unfortunately embedding has been disabled). It followed the journey of two couples who were seemingly ready to make real life changing decision besed on their second life relationships. As you can imagine, the two couples end up at rather different outcomes by the end of the journey. The first couple ultimately get married in SL with the rest of their real life families all hooked into the SL network to see the prestigious event. The second couple how a wife and mother of two kids travels half the way round the world to find out that the person she met in SL does nothing for her in Real Life. It was really interesting to see how this SL committment actually exists in everyday interactions. The clip I have posted in particularily good as it is from the view of the husbad who's wife leave America for her SL 'boyfriend' who lives in England. There are some fantastic clips where all parties involved speak about the versions of 'the real'. And it was great to see that it was all about the people instead of this look at what the technology was doing. It was a cutting edge take and how the people make this technology what is it. There is a lovely clip where the two who meet up in England go for a picnic in the park and they are just sat silently next to each other. Obviously, the build up to leaving America involved a number of intense arguments that were now finished with this very anti-climatic walk through a London park - As if to say 'uh is this it then?' The section that followed showed her talking through how she couldn't have both worlds and actually felt kind of sorry for her. Her SL character she confessed 'was everything that she wanted to be' and that all she wanted to do is 'bring a little bit of that into the real world'. For those two that got married their real life counterparts had been everything they wanted to be, but obviously this took some adjustent from them to see that they would not have the physical characteristic they do in SL. Perhaps what is needed here is an ability to see that they only thing that is really 'true' in SL is the interaction itself.

Deleting Facebook might not be as easy as you think

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:17:00 +0000

If you are like me, you would assume that profile pages can be destroyed as easily as they are created. However, the ICO has found that Facbook pages in the UK are particularly difficult to delete and require users to remove each individual wall post. This could be potentially thousands of wall posts for many users. The interesting question is how do we alert users to the problems with deleting their profile pages? The possibility of a banner saying ' we store your information indefinitely' seems a little much. Although I agree with the direction of the argument. Please don't anybody say we need to educate people more. I'm not entirely sure this is always the answer. What we need to do is make the technology easier to use. But, Facebook is certainly under no pressure to do this.

Check out this article on the unofficial facebook blog to read more.

Friends like these

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:30:00 +0000

I have some immediate reactions to the article in the Guardian on Monday 14th January entitled 'With Friends like these...'(here is the link) that I was alerted to through the nettime listserv. This article really tells us more about the author (Tom Hodgkinson) than it does about Facebook, opening with line 'I despise Facebook'. The article fits with a classically naive version of the social implications of the Internet that arrives with each new technological possibility (email, you tube, blogging and now SNS like Facebook). There are always those saying, well actually, doesn't the Internet actually make us further apart? No. If anything, the net allows people to be even more social in their everyday lives, it is incredibly reductionist to presume that one simply replaces the other. Moreover, real life and the interaction we have in online communities are uniquely interwoven into this concept of 'being social'. Tom Hodkinson reports that in Facebook 'I can construct an artificial representation of myself in order to get sex'. Again, I don't think this what the majority of people use Facebook for. Although, I am intrigued by the interactional process that leads from the simplistic movement of taking a photograph to how this is constructed into an 'artificial representation'. What about this photograph is artificial? Presumably nothing. So then it is in the surrounding discourse that brings the artificial to life. I'm sure many people like to construct a certain image online, but to condemn that entire process to be about getting sex seems farfetched.

As with any area of public life the marketers have tried to find a way to tap into potential audiences, just as two people standing on the street have a large advisement in the background, as does communication in Facebook. I completely disagree with the idea that Facebook is profoundly uncreative, particularly in light of advertising. It is important to remember that Facebook members provide the content, nothing more. From my use of Facebook and studying a similar SNS that got heavily involved with Advertising (MySpace) it is interesting to note how little notice member take of advertising. If anything, it has become an expectation of anything in a modern society. Again, what is noticeable here is that you can not accuse the people of being uncreative when you have been put off by the advertising. Uncreative, you obviously have found the wrestler application! If anything I dislike the view that people in SNS are any different to those in real-life. For many, the relations they have online are just as 'real'. Taken from the article:

Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out
of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries - and then
sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at
all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.

EEEpc

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:02:00 +0000

Since my time at the CPPE I seem to only be known for my little pc. So here it is. Feel free to check out some more photos on my flickr account.

A good move by Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:48:00 +0000

I have long been a believer that a cluttered profile looks messy and untidy. Maybe this says something interesting about me as a person, or maybe, there is some deeper in the sense that I like the way we can manipulate our online identity with the applications on a SNS not just through the content that we upload. That was why I was pleased to see facebook's extended utility. For a further review check out what Nick o'Neil has to say here

Inaugural lectures

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:46:00 +0000

On Wednesday, I attended two fantastic inaugural lectures at the school of management, University of Leicester. I particularly enjoyed the latter of the two that focused on media convergence in terms of the organisation (BBC, Sky etc). One thing that was brought to my attention was the role of the journalist to cover a range of media platforms. This is an interesting juxtaposition to the inherently social understanding I have come in contact with of convergence in the past. Konstantinos Saltzis put forward the idea of a 'one man band' journalist that writes once and publishes everywhere. It opposes the popular notion that convergence makes life easier by pulling everything together in one place. For journalists, the range of media platforms that their news has to reach causes more work. Interestingly, Konstantinos noticed how the journalisits consider their increased level of work is because of a rise in competition and not the nature of convergence itself. Thereby, it is because of the bloggers that the news has to now compete more often. I was surprised to hear that the journalists had located the problem in the people and not in the technology.

Seemingly unintentionally the first lecture from Sverre Spoelstra gave a philosophical insight into the differences between work and labour. As I am currently trying to work my way through a thousand plateaus this was really useful. Sverre explained how Labour is never used a noun. It never refers to an end product. Therefore, labour is unproductive. Labour is an endless cycle. Work is productive makes objects that have a life of their own. In the world we have a relationship with these products and We are consuming the products more and more in today's society – computers, mobiles etc. Sverre used a range of eminent philosophers from Locke to Foucault to present his argument.

Link to podcast from Poke 1.0

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:24:00 +0000

Click here to get your own player.

The social role of 'In Memoriam' notices

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:06:00 +0000

Today I attended a talk by Stephanie O'Donohoe (Edinburgh) at the MCCi study group entitled:

Consuming, communing and coming to terms with loss:
the social role of In Memoriam notices

This is obviously very different to the information and communication stuff that I usually report on, but I have a background in Psychology and a deep interest in Philosophy as a whole. Stephanie had gathered some really great interviews with people who report anniversaries of family deaths in an Irish newspaper. This work really showed how the memory of the individuals involved were kept alive by revisiting their past in a particular form and manner. The notices paralleled a kind of singles ads column, in the sense that, the author had a limited number of words in which to express a wide array of sentiment. In Stephanie's findings, this typically meant that people used powerful phrases from the bible to express the loss of a loved one. Until later in the talk, there were many references that I was used to hearing in CMC (e.g. public/private, Anderson's Imagined Community and even the fact that In Memoriam notices had been simplified to 'IM'). This made me raise the similarities of another SNS that I commented on in the form of Mydeath space. A neat comparison here is that Stephanie has a very tight-knit community of people who were writing notices for loved ones that many of the newspaper recipients would have known. Mydeath space, however, is a much more global enterprise. I think this is a neat example of how our technological ability to do things like memory is evolving. More and more our everyday lives our becoming intrinsically in twinned with the connections growing SNSs have to offer. I wonder how the small community that typically reports deaths in a certain way would react to someone posting a death to somewhere like Myspace?

I understand memory in constant flux. For me (and many others) memory is not something that is stored in the brain. Instead, it is mediated through our close social environment by way of objects, people and experiences and this allows us to draw upon a vast myriad of experiences to invoke action in a particular setting. In this way technology allows us to constantly store up the past in emails and SNS and as technology develops so does our ability to commemorate past experiences. I am keen to think about old notions of a person or being and how that relates to the current technological environment.

Poke 1.0

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:34:00 +0000

On Thursday last week I attended the Poke 1.0 symposium organised by the London Knowledge lab. This has been credited as the first real attempt to focus on one SNS in particular and explore a range of methodological and epistemological claims. The first two presentations where in complete contrast - but actually this worked really well for the nature of the symposium. The first presentation from the Human Capital group used Neilson net ratings to dispel a number of myths about the basic demographics of FB users. This was then followed by Sonia Livingstone's work that used a qualitative analysis of interviews of young FB users. I really enjoyed Sonia's presentation, particularly the notion of 'identity in transition', which she uses to describe the older teenagers adapting their identity into more sophisticated norms to construct their identity as mature in comparison to the Myspace equivalent. These ideas were broadly informed by the work of Mead and Giddens.

In the afternoon session, a team from Cambridge University explored the student and staff perspectives of FB. I was really impressed by a new technology they have developed that incorporates their version of blackboard into a facebook application. Although, I can already see the criticism that blurring work and play in this way will only cause negative responses from many academics. The final session of the day was dedicated to an open discussion around the ethical constraints of studying FB. The question that was raised in this debate that has most relevance to my work was:

Technical and perceived privacy: If a site is public, but the people use it as if it is private - should we study it as private?

This is a very complicated question - but my initial reaction would be that most people are well aware of privacy controls now. If they are 'treating' (which in itself would be a very difficult thing to define) they are probably doing it for some reason outside the lack of recognising privacy issues. For example, this could be to appear secretive or shy to a fellow user.

I was also intrigued to hear alternative attempts to gather IRB (a.k.a ethical committee) consent. I had assumed that everyone had to go through this procedure now. I was shocked to here that there are still some research students that are not checking their ethical stance against any official board before conducting their research.

Really productive day, looking forward to poke 2.0.

Great Video - Is Facebook a Fad?

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:53:00 +0000

For all you people out there who are still a little unsure about what I actually study. Nancy Baym (Kansas) has recently been part of a discussion on 'The Agenda' that discusses some of the key research areas surrounding the use of Facebook. I recently met Nancy at a conference and was really impressed by her work. Make sure you watch the video in the next ten days as the stream is due to run out then. Here is the link to the show.

MyDeathSpace

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:42:00 +0000

One of my colleagues has just pointed out 'Mydeathspace' to me (here). Unbelievably, it is a place where Myspace users go when they die. It allows you to 'submit a death' and has an ariel view style map of the geographical locations of the most recent deaths. From just a quick scan of the website it is quite shocking how young all the deaths are. I know that Myspace is used by a lot of younger people, but in my research I have found that many 20+ year olds are using Myspace. I will try and factor Mydeathspace into my research.

What a great example of an embodied experience due to the fact our online profiles need to be accounted for in some way after we die in RL. Is there an avenue here for people to 'play' with the notion of death? As users in Myspace have a number of online profiles that may be fake in some cases how is this represented in the mydeathspace pages. All of this stuff brings some interesting questions into view.

'Mydeathspace' is not endorsed or affiliated with Myspace in any way. It will be interesting to see how they react.

Myspace and Advertising

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:25:00 +0000

Myspace is branching out in forms of advertising with the introduction of 'SelfServe'. This enables companies to analyse the performance of ads directly through Myspace. I think this is intended to keep up with Google's 'adwords' program. The most interesting thing about this development is that Myspace is also launching 'HyperTargeting' platform that will allow advertisers to select specific groups of the Myspace audience. This will allow advertisers to directly access their market, e.g. the movie lovers category has over 300 subcategories that would mean promoting a movie would target the areas of an individuals profile that supported the style of the movie. If ever teanagers were worried about making themselves more less searchable to strangers this is one way they will not be able to avoid being 'found' by a marketing company. Tech crunch has got a great example of what the program will look like (here).

Myspace moves to OpenSocial

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:09:00 +0000

Everything is moving very quickly at Myspace HQ this week. It has just been confirmed that Myspace will now be joining Google's OpenSocial movement. This means that developers can write programs that can be used over any platform (Bebo and Six Apart are also confirmed at this point). This should save time in the programming department as they do not have to launch entirely new platforms every time there is a new application. It has also been a growing idea that users have separate profiles on a number of different SNSs where they do different things. Perhaps this is an attempt to make writing new programs across-the-board easier. It seems in making this decision Myspace have backed Facebook into a corner. The big question now is will they also join this OpenSocial movement...

Rise of the silver surfer

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:37:00 +0000

I should be a millionaire.

The reason for this being the new social networking technology aimed at the over 50's was one of those 'wouldn't it be really great if we had...' ideas I had about a year ago. The new social network is called Saga Zone and it is riding the back of the 'silver surfer' wave (sorry for the pun). Saga Zone (link) is apparently arranged in a way that caters for the needs of an older generation. It is well worth watching the video (here) from the BBC's news website to see how one user understands the differences between Saga zone and other SNS's like Myspace and Facebook. Apparently older people 'use a different language' which is really interesting to see in online interaction. This offers a great opportunity to compare if older generations use social networking technology in the same way i.e. 'do they have real vs fake friends? Do profiles represent an authentic self? Also, from a social construction of technology perspective, do the users of Saga Zone use any of the features in a way that was not originally intended by the developers?

The gateway page has this comment:

SAGA Zone is a new online community where you create a whole new social network of friends and easily stay in touch from the comfort of your home.You can create your own personal profile page and share your interests in our online forums. You can even write your own web diary, or blog. Soon, you will be able to set up your own photo gallery and enjoy live instant chats.

What is immediately clear at this point is that it does start by saying - 'over 50's only' although the website will only let you create a profile if you enter a date of birth over 50. So something is happening here- do marketing companies believe that user will be deterred by openly joining something that is for over 50's? Why has it instead opted to use the term 'easily stay in touch from the comfort of your home' - I fail to see how this is a new and novel concept. The new bit seems to come at the end with one line -

Anyone over 50 can join SAGA Zone in three easy steps.

This shows that the Saga have come very close to missing the point. It is for people over 50. This is the main selling point. That fact that it is from the comfort of your own home is not a new idea. I would be really interested to incorporate this new avenue of social networking into my PhD (although I already feel that this could be a PhD on it's own) and would be interested to talk with anyone who has ideas on this topic.

One thing that is already clear is that networking of this kind offers a stark comparison to the idea that social networking is all about young people. Saga zone represents a unique opportunity to study online communication that is dependant on being from an older age group. I think this is merely the beginning of my talks around this point...

AoIR 2007 presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:45:00 +0000

Blogging As A Discursive Practice

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This is the presentation from the recent panel at the AoIr conference in Vancouver (2007) entitled 'methods of blog research'

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noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:17:00 +0000

Sorry it is so late, but here are the slides from my recent talk at the AoIR conference in Vancouver

Today's report

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:50:00 +0000

Today I visited the Capilano suspension bridge. Check out the video here. Really excellent views. Pictures will be coming shortly as I am having some issues with the camera. But if you go there make sure you buy a hot apple cider. Now off to Granville Island to enjoy some Tapas and pretend I am interested in art.

More on AoIR 8.0

noreply@blogger.com (Lewis Goodings) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:21:00 +0000

ok, so I presented at the panel of blog research yesterday and it was a really great opportunity to see the other work going on in the field. A big thank you to Lois Scheidt for organising the event and to the rest of the panel attendants for providing thought-provoking conversation with regard to popular methods. The rest of the day lead to drinks downtown with Daniel, Jan, Andy, Vian and Lars. As with most conferences it was great to make some great friends which will hopefully lead to collaboration and further social events in the future.

So now Beth and I have a few days to explore (sunny) Vancouver...

More to come on what we find