Finally going to press, the Fabrication Article. Annette Markham [addtoany] Well, unless someone points out some egregious errors, I’m going to send this article off tomorrow for publication in Information, Communication, and Society (promises to be out before the end of the year!) Abstract: In this article, I briefly touch on some of the ethical […]
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Why Facebook changes matter more than we think. Part II Annette Markham [addtoany] To continue the point I was making in my last post, I see this Facebook Timeline video (and the rest of the recent FB changes) as a wake up call of sorts. With the Timeline feature, Facebook is promoting itself not just […]
Facebook changes matter more than we think Annette Markham [addtoany] Throughout the day on Sept 21, I saw a flurry of responses to changes in the Facebook interface. I added several “Dear Facebook” messages to the sarcastic fray. I also read a couple of nice news pieces, like this one from Salon.com, analyzing both the […]
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Notes from my talk in Helsinki
Notes from my talk in Helsinki Annette Markham [addtoany] Just finished this talk: Boundary Work: Ethnographic methods for social media research. All my talks are beginning to overlap, which is not a bad thing. Just another sign that everything relates to everything else. For my ppt images plus notes, click here. (4.4 MB. Lots of […]
What is the “field” in virtual research contexts? Annette Markham [addtoany] This is an old topic. And in fact, an old excerpt from a talk I gave in Trondheim, Norway, in 2002. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and I wonder how this gets modified when applied to social media contexts, beyond […]
Remix Methods talk at Transforming Audiences 3, London 2011 Annette Markham [addtoany] Here are slides from my presentation at the Transforming Audiences conference in London on September 2, 2011. It’s a rough sketch of my argument in 13 minutes. I had an excellent time doing it, got a decent question from Sonia Livingstone, and some […]
Remix Methods: Searching for Resonance (Part I) Annette Markham [addtoany] As part of an ongoing project, this is my own remix, which means it will morph over time into something that has a different sort of coherence than you see here. I’ve been musing over three recent events that compelled me to start writing about […]
Briefly, about practice theory and organizing. Annette Markham [addtoany] Reading about practice theory (or practice based studies) applied to organization studies. Nice overview of the path of practice based thinking by Silvia Gherardi, writing an Introduction to a special issue of Management Learning called “The Critical Power of the ‘Practice Lens’” Notable in this introduction […]
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Writing As Method: A PhD Workshop
Writing As Method: A PhD Workshop Annette Markham [addtoany] Writing as Method, a PhD workshop Wednesday, April 6 Aarhus University “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” Starting with the assumption that “research procedure constructs reality as much as it produces descriptions of it” (Gubrium & Holstein, 1997, p.9), […]
Fabrication as ethical performance Annette Markham [addtoany] Traditional journalistic and sociological practice considers a person’s words to be freely available–if uttered publicly or with permission–to analyze and quote, as long as we anonymize the source. Prior to the internet, researchers took for granted the ability to safely store fieldnotes, interview transcripts, demographic data, and other […]