Category Archives: PhD Research

Experiments in Mapping an Online Community

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

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

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

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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Ethnography, Assemblage, Poolies

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

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

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

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

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

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?

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

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

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

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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Beginning to Answer Focused Concepts

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

After spending hours/days in research data, my method quickly shifted to coding incident by incident – the best way to compare my data to other data. This method allows to move quickly and find new active categories within the data … Continue reading →

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Community Manager Tasks at a Public Broadcaster (ABC)

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

If you have been following my posts over the past week, you would probably realise that yes, I have become a data nerd. What’s more interesting is that I am kind of liking this data coding thang which may surprise … Continue reading →

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From Sensitizing Concepts to Focused Coding

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

Sensitizing Concepts As highlighted in my last post, my sensitizing concepts (Blumer 1969)from the research project outset were: User led innovation Archive release Mod Bods (Community Editors) Moderation at the ABC Open source Crowd sourcing Communities surrounding UGC My recent … Continue reading →

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