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About Jonathon Hutchinson

I am undertaking my PhD at the QUT Centre of Excellence of Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). I am researching into online communities within organisation and the role of the community manager. To do this I am working and researching at ABC Pool (www.abc.net.au/pool) as a community manager. I also like listening to tunes and bike riding - and other stuff...

Experiments in Mapping an Online Community

I’m having an ethical issue surrounding the access to the database of ABC Pool – I would like to use this data to map the community/network to prove the theories my qualitative data suggest. The issue is having access to … Continue reading

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Behind the Scenes at ABC Radio National: Co-creative feature making

Recently, I was lucky enough to find myself sitting in a production session for the upcoming ABC Radio National program to be broadcast on 360documentaries, New Beginnings. New Beginnings is a project housed within ABC Pool and is the latest co-creative production … Continue reading

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‘Clicks’ within Communities

[Just to be clear, the use of the word 'click' instead of 'clique' is intentional in this piece.] I have recently undergone a sea change: from the big smoke to a small-ish coastal town on the southern NSW coastline. The … Continue reading

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From Fringe to Formalisation – Creative Institutional Practices within ABC Pool

Spent today writing and developing an argument around the fringe to formalisation transition within the production of cultural artifacts. Essentially it is addressing collaborative practices between an institutional online community as a project is produced for broadcast on the ABC … Continue reading

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The One Right Way – How to Write a Social Science Journal Article

I’ve been head-butting the desk trying to write a social science article for 2 months now and still haven’t perfected it. I have discovered I write in the abstract and often my actors are absent. My style results in being … Continue reading

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Ethnography, Assemblage, Poolies

In preparation for the upcoming CCI Symposium engaging in “Socio-Cultural Research and Australia’s Policy Challenges,” I have revisited some methodology literature. I am participating in the Media Ethnography workshop (appropriate given the position of my research) and have been reading other … Continue reading

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Is This Thing On? Ethnographic Interview Techniques for PhD Research

Armed with my constructed grounded theory outlining who the stakeholders are within institutional online communities and how they negotiate their interests, I am preparing to embark on interview grandness! I have a swag of literature under my belt to support any … Continue reading

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Notebooks, Ethnography and Grounded Theory Research

I was reading thesiswhisper’s latest guest blog post about the importance of keeping an up-to-date notebook whilst researching. Eloise Zoppos’s entry started me thinking about my own practice in regards to ethnographic fieldnotes and converting those notes into a theoretical framework. … Continue reading

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So… Why Research ABC Pool?

In my “post-confirmation era”, I have found some time to stop, take stock and critically reflect on what I am researching. The confirmation process encouraged me to focus on what my research questions are, conduct a preliminary analysis, and construct … Continue reading

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Web Histories: the transforming of Public Service Broadcasting online

On Friday, I had the opportunity to listen to some of the leading researchers and academics present their knowledge on the position of the Public Service Broadcaster within the online environment. Web Histories is a forthcoming book that investigates what … Continue reading

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