… fuck outta here if you ain’t down with the clown!
I have to admit I am an Insane Clown Posse fan, yet they have this strange approach to rap music that I’m not sure I understand. Sure, their music has […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
