Interpretive Methods Panel: Podcast Now Available!

[ajnabieh]

I'm happily back from WPSA, which was a blast; for folks like me, who work in odd corners of the field of political science, it's a tremendously productive place to have conversations that can be difficult to have in larger poli sci conferences. I sat around and talked about how to integrate queer theory into interpretive methodologies! There were multiple panels on feminist theoretical concerns per timeslot! It was awesome! Also, San Antonio is a fun place to be, so there was that.

As planned, we recorded our session, called "It's Not Facebook, It's Fieldwork! Conducting Interpretive Research Using Social Networking Technology." It's largely a conversation between myself and Renee Cramer of Drake University; we had one other participant, who didn't identify himself for the audio, but who made some great contributions. (My sister also gamely showed up, though she doesn't appear on the tape.)

The conversation was incredibly productive; Renee and I found a lot of common problems and reasons for turning to social networks to gather data, and I think made some productive comparisons. (Although, my favorite moment was the exchange "Have you found a better way to save data than to just copy it into Word?" "Nope." "Dammit.") In addition, I got to highlight the work that fan scholars are doing in changing how we think about citation and data-gathering on the internet; acafandom has done some impressive critical work that I think has ramifications for all of us doing research in online environments, and I'm glad to be able to share that.

The audio is just under an hour long; I haven't prepared a transcript yet, though I'm hoping to do so eventually. It's available for download on my mediafire page here, in m4a format. I've tried to edit the metadata in iTunes so that it has our names and my contact info; let's hope that works.

Please feel free to pass the file or this post along to anyone you know who would find it useful!

(PS: I know I did stuff for 3W4DW last year, but, well, since I don't crosspost anywhere, I didn't really know what to do this time. Anybody have particular things they want me to do? Go on and ask; if I get a chance, I'll be happy to!)

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Scrapbook

[sheddingkhawatir.blogspot.com]

I will be listening to this this weekend--sounds like a cool conference. Also, you should check out the Firefox extension Scrapbook for saving the data--I use Firefox solely for this purpose as I generally prefer other browsers, but think Scrapbook is great for saving the data exactly as it looks, and you can even highlight parts, delete parts, etc. I usually save an original copy and then a modified copy.