So. Ethnographers are always being laughed at.
And tonight it was a shame that on tv they laughed at the ESRC for funding a project to the tune of £150 K to execute an ethnography of cafe life.
I thought it seemed like a cool project when I looked it up later.
We could do with a bit more of this kind of reflection rather than jumping to conclusions and making assumptions all the time.
(Why not listen here to Stewart Lee talking on the Radio 4 Programme about how and why satire works only when the writers of the satire understand the culture they are satirising.)
That is why DrKate's exciting research into narratives of migration is so important.
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Dr Joolz you are so right.
I think we have missed a trick.
But I think we should CATCH up
and do an ethnography of academics at home blogging and cooking.
it could include some complicated home ethnography where we watched and TRACKED the way in which academic bloggers MOVED across domains from blogging to cooking.
It would destablished the notion of academic time (transaprency review) and invent new ways of conceptualising work and leisure.
We might make a fortune.
Msut go and put away shopping.
Am so impressed with all this. What does it mean that you have been shopping while I am still in glamorous sexy nightie blogging and looking at Flickr. (INVESTIGATING and RESEARCHING)?
You are so right though about the importance of these COMBINATIONS of identity and the rubbishness of trying to categorise tasks into work/non-work and blah blah blah. Those transparency reviews are a nightmmare for the qualitative researcher.
Can I be a junior researcher with the pair of you? I don't cost much now?
You can be senior consultant I think. Respect to ya digigran.
Have been looking at camisoles everywhere and am getting a comprehensive list together so we can go on a minbreak to discuss methodologies.
(see here for for explanation of seeming non-sequitor.)
am happy to be a research subject! Sitting here having just paid the credit card bill for NY, doing the weekly shopping list and wishing I had a cappucino like this one..
Yes MaryPlain, you can be. Or if you want can join the team as it will be participant observation
have done special post on camisoles as it was SO IMPORTANT.
Credit card bills are so difficult.
We should all be paid LOADS MORE
for difficult internet based fashion research which involves ving to buy the thing to find out how it feels to do internet shopping.
I meant having to buy the thing.
Absolutely Kate. I think we should apply to the ESRC NOW and yes please, can I join DrJoolz?
I have started doing some participant observation on Guy (see comments) but will work on the official thing if you want.
That's me, Dr J. Mary Plain and Digigran.
Anyone else interested?
Home ethnography of adacemics who blog??
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