‘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 […]
Tag Archives: Research
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 […]
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 […]
QUT, ABC Pool, and Me as Community Manager
Recently I was in Brisbane presenting some of my research and the rare occasion of my entire research team being in the same location presented itself. That means Associate Professor […]
Community Manager Tasks at a Public Broadcaster (ABC)
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 […]
From Sensitizing Concepts to Focused Coding
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 […]
Today’s Reading: Constructing Grounded Theory
Charmaz, K 2006, Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis, 1st edn, Introducing Qualitative Methods, SAGE Publications, London. In an attempt to marry my research data with my […]
Research Questions for my Thesis
I have been focussing on what I am researching as part of my thesis and have designed these questions as core to the research. However, now I am beginning to […]
