Posts from — June 2003

page not found. Excellent 404 error page [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

this is a good one, he he he

PCD. Post Conference Depression. Didn't know it existed, but it does. [vog blog::vlog 2.0]

yep it does, every time you manage one of these, you spend so much effort and adrenaline amongst other things, that you collapse a bit afterward.

Software Studies. The term is Lev Manovich's, but he hasn't done much to define it, at least not yet. What is software studies then? Or what is software studies to me? Software studies is what media theory becomes after the bubble bursts…. [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum]

there is actually so much more before Manovich's coin of the term. So much more, that I'm not sure he coined it, because there has been a research center in canada doing this sort of thing from a slightly different angle for some time.

I would add to the list Bonnie Nardi's work, and all the other anthropoligists of software, there is a large body of work in relation to information technology and software in the STS literature also. All of it is fascinating… there is also my software and culture list which has been going on for years.

well if we follow the people who came just before habermas, the dialectic of enlightenment provides for a thesis and its antithesis, and the antithesis is fascism, I'm not sure the enlightenment is, as such, the way to go…. perhaps we need a more plural set of possibilities.

Are the universities an instrument?. It is now taken for granted in the policy making culture in Australia that our higher education institutions are, and should be, an instrument for wealth creation. The purpose of deploying the instrument, say the utilitarians, is to ensure comparative or competitive advantage so as to enhance the wealth of the nation vis-a-vis other nations. Things are not so cut and dried in the UK. Whether the universites are an instrument or not is still being debated in Britain. Under the Blair Government the liberal state says universities are an instrument. Thus, Charles Clarke, the UK Education Secretary, stated this position in a recent speech at University College Worcester. He says: “The other day I heard a vice-chancellor argue that the purpose of a university was the unfettered pursuit of truth and excellence. Another distinguished academic wrote a paper in which she argued that we should get back to a… [philosophy.com]

yes, but the problem is that people don't actually understand what about universities produces wealth. many universities are orienting toward the quick buck mentality instead of the growth of cultural capital, which is a slower strategy but more successful over history as technics and investment in them comes and goes, but cultural capital doesn't….

Industrial evolution. One of five industries in the throes of a tech metamorphosis, the life sciences field is hoping information technology can help it deal with an explosion of data and a rush for new pharmaceuticals. [CNET News.com] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

well if you look at it investment strategies at universities, this becomes quite obvious…

Do you have one minute to web-surf for the Public Domain?. Larry Lessig needs your help to preserve the Public Domain:

“We have launched a petition to build support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act. That act would require American copyright holders to pay $1 fifty years after a work was published. If they pay the $1, the copyright continues. If they don't, the work passes into the public domain. Historical estimates would suggest 98% of works would pass into the pubilc domain after 50 years. The Act would do a great deal to reclaim a public domain. This proposal has received a great deal of support. It is now facing some important lobbyists' opposition. We need a public way to begin to demonstrate who the lobbyists don't speak for. This is the first step. If you are an ally in at least this cause, please sign the petition. Please blog it, please email it, please spam it, please buy billboards about it — please do whatever you can. And most importantly, please help us explain its importance. There is a chance to do something significant here. But it will take a clearer, simpler voice than mine.”

Click here to sign the petition.  It takes less than a minute to sign.  Thanks.

[Ernie the Attorney]
consider it blogged and signed…

Adieu. This will be my last post for a while. I've decided to take an extended break from weblogging in order to focus on other projects. I appreciate the attention and feedback my weblog entries have received over the past sixteen months–I've met some wonderful people and learned a great deal… [Jonathon Delacour]

guess, i should turn off this blog feed then….. interesting stuff.

Dear colleagues,=20

i would like to inform you that FQS 4(2) — Subjectivity and Reflexivity
in Qualitative Research II — is available at
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt2-03-e.htm (see
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-02-e.htm for Part
I).=20

We hope that this most extensive collection on subjectivity and
reflexivity in qualitative research thus far will promote further
understanding and initiate discussions — whether one agrees with or is
critical against it. This hope is supported by the fact that authors
from various disciplines and nations joined this adventure and gave
insights from their practices and knowledge. Of course, everyone is
invited to join us in these reflection and discussion processes at FQS
also in the future!=20

Katja Mruck, Editor
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research

***********************************************************************
FQS 4(2) — SUBJECTIVITY AND REFLEXIVITY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Edited by Wolff-Michael Roth, Franz Breuer & Katja Mruck

Katja Mruck & Franz Breuer: Subjectivity and Reflexivity in Qualitative
Research — The FQS Issues
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03intro-1-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth & Franz Breuer: Reflexivity and Subjectivity: A
Possible Road Map for Reading the Special Issues
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03intro-2-e.htm

Franz Breuer & Wolff-Michael Roth: Subjectivity and Reflexivity in the
Social Sciences: Epistemic Windows and Methodical Consequences
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03intro-3-e.htm

Bruce Bolam, Kate Gleeson & Simon Murphy (UK): “Lay Person” or “Health
Expert”? Exploring Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Reflexivity in
Qualitative Health Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03bolametal-e.htm

Gert Dressel & Nikola Langreiter (Austria): When “We Ourselves” Become
Our Own Field of Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03dressellangreiter-=
e.htm

Carolyn Ellis (USA): Grave Tending: With Mom at the Cemetery
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03ellis-e.htm

Wolfgang Fichten & Birgit Dreier (Germany): Triangulation of
Subjectivity
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03fichtendreier-e.ht=
m

Mary Hanrahan (Australia): Challenging the Dualistic Assumptions of
Academic Writing: Representing Ph.D. Research as Embodied Practice
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03hanrahan-e.htm

Silvia Heizmann (Switzerland): “Because of You I Am an Invalid!”-Some
Methodological Reflections About the Limitations of Collecting and
Interpreting Verbal Data and the Attempt to Win New Insights by Applying
the Epistemological Potential of Ethnopsychoanalytical Concepts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03heizmann-e.htm

Olaf Jensen & Harald Welzer (Germany): One Thing Leads to Another or:
Self-Reflexivity as Method
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03jensenwelzer-e.htm

Helen Kay, Viviene Cree, Kay Tisdall & Jennifer Wallace (Guyana,
Scotland, UK): At the Edge: Negotiating Boundaries in Research with
Children and Young People
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03kayetal-e.htm

Ernst Langthaler (Austria): (Hi)stories on (Hi)stories.
Historical-Anthropological Fieldwork as Reflexive Process
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03langthaler-e.htm

Stuart Lee & Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Becoming and Belonging:
Learning Qualitative Research Through Legitimate Peripheral
Participation
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03leeroth-e.htm

Stephan Marks & Heidi Moennich-Marks (Germany): The Analysis of
Counter-Transference Reactions Is a Means to Discern Interview-Contents
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03marks-e.htm

Judith McMorland, Brigid Carroll, Susan Copas & Judith Pringle (New
Zealand): Enhancing the Practice of PhD Supervisory Relationships
Through First- And Second-Person Action Research/Peer Partnership
Inquiry
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03mcmorlandetal-e.ht=
m

Harriet W. Meek (USA): The Place of the Unconscious in Qualitative
Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03meek-e.htm

Chaim Noy (Israel): The Write of Passage: Reflections on Writing a
Dissertation in Narrative Methodology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03noy-e.htm=20

Sarah Riley, Wendy Schouten & Sharon Cahill (UK): Exploring the Dynamics
of Subjectivity and Power Between Researcher and Researched
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03rileyetal-e.htm=20

Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): The Interaction between Research Method and
Subjective Competence in Systematic Metaphor Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03schmitt-e.htm

Maria de F=E1tima de A. Silveira, Dulce Maria Rosa Gualda, Vera Sobral, &
Ademilda Maria de S. Garcia (Brazil): Workshops of Sensitivity,
Expressiveness and Creativity: A Path to Integrate Subjectivity and
Reflection in Qualitative Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03silveiraetal-e.htm

Tilo Weber (Germany): There Is No Objective Subjectivity in the Study of
Social Interaction
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03weber-e.htm

***** SINGLE CONTRIBUTIONS

Nicole Capezza (USA): The Cultural-Psychological Foundations for
Violence and Nonviolence. An Empirical Study
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03capezza-e.htm

Monica Colombo (Italy): Reflexivity and Narratives in Action Research: A
Discursive Approach
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03colombo-e.htm

Marisela Hern=E1ndez (Venezuela): Recovering the Objects: Towards a
“Tasty” Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03hernandez-e.htm

Helmar Schoene (Germany): Participant Observation in Political Science:
Methodological Reflection and Field Report
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03schoene-e.htm

*** FQS DEBATE “QUALITY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH”

Franz Breuer: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Positions and
Position Changes in Psychology. A Comment on Texts by Jochen Fahrenberg
and Juergen Rost
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03breuer-e.htm

Jochen Fahrenberg (Germany): Interpretation in Psychology and Social
Science-New Approach or a Neglected Tradition?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03fahrenberg-e.htm

Juergen Rost (Germany): Zeitgeist and Fashions in the Analysis of
Empirical Data
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03rost-e.htm

*** FQS DEBATE “DOING SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES-ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE CAREER POLITICS OF AN OCCUPATIONAL GROUP”

Franz Breuer, Jo Reichertz & Wolff-Michael Roth: Taboos of Thematization
and Gate Keeping in the Social Sciences: Moderators' Comments
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03breueretal-e.htm

Angelika Birck (Germany): Laura's Doctorate
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03birck-e.htm

Guenter Burkart (Germany): On Taboos of Thematizing and the
Impossibility of Doing a Sociology of Sociology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03burkart-e.htm

*** FQS REVIEW

Valerie Malhotra Bentz (USA): Review Note: Arthur P. Bochner & Carolyn
Ellis (Eds.) (2002). Ethnographically Speaking: Autoethnography,
Literature and Aesthetics
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-bentz-e.htm

Michael B. Buchholz (Germany): Review Note: Klaus Antons, Andreas Amann,
Gisela Clausen, Oliver Koenig & Karl Schattenhofer (2001).
Gruppenprozesse verstehen. Gruppendynamische Forschung und Praxis
[Understanding Group Processes. Group Dynamics-Research and Practice]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-buchholz-e.=
htm

Thomas Doebler (Germany): Review Note: Edmund Ballhaus (Ed.) (2001).
Kulturwissenschaft, Film und Oeffentlichkeit [Cultural Science, Film,
and Public]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-doebler-e.h=
tm

Susanne Friese (Germany): Review Note: Andreas Wernet (2000).
Einfuehrung in die Interpretationstechnik der Objektiven Hermeneutik
[Introduction to Interpretation Techniques of Objective Hermeneutics]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-friese-e.ht=
m

Ralf Ottermann (Germany): What is the Sociology of Crime? Disciplinary
Conspicuousnesses and Qualitative Links. Review Essay: Stefanie Eifler
(2002). Kriminalsoziologie [Sociology of Crime]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-ottermann-e=
.htm

Carl Ratner (USA): Reply to Wolff-Michael Roth's Review Essay Culture
and Identity, published in FQS 4(1)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-ratner-e.ht=
m

Dietmar Rost (Germany): Inside the Ghost Train of Collective Identity.
Lutz Niethammer's Criticism of the Concept's Boom. Review Essay: Lutz
Niethammer (2000). Kollektive Identitaet. Heimliche Quellen einer
unheimlichen Konjunktur [Collective Identity. Clandestine Sources of an
Eerie Boom]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-rost-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): The Dialectic of the General and Particular
in Social Science Research and Teaching Praxis. Review Essay: Carol R.
Ember & Melvin Ember (2001). Cross-Cultural Research Methods
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-roth-e.htm

Wilhelm Schwendemann (Germany): Review Note: Harald Welzer (Ed.) (1999).
Auf den Truemmern der Geschichte: Gespraeche mit Raul Hilberg, Hans
Mommsen und Zygmunt Bauman [On the Ruins of History: Discourses with
Raul Hilberg, Hans Mommsen and Zygmunt Bauman]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-schnwendema=
nn-e.htm

Achim Seiffarth (Italy): Qualitative Research for the Education of
Mankind. Review Essay: Andreas Mueller-Hartmann & Marita
Schocker-v.Ditfurth (Eds.) (2001). Qualitative Forschung im Bereich
Fremdsprachen lehren und lernen [Qualitative Research in Foreign
Language Teaching and Learning]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-seiffarth-e=
.htm

Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review Note: Beate Krais & Gunter
Gebauer (2002). Habitus
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-spetsmann-e=
.htm

Peter Stegmaier (Germany): Review Note: Thomas Samuel Eberle (2000).
Lebensweltanalyse und Handlungstheorie. Beitraege zur Verstehenden
Soziologie [Life-world Analysis and Action Theory. Contributions to
Interpretative Sociology]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-stegmaier-e=
.htm

Benjamin Stingl (Germany): Youth-Youth Culture-Techno. Review Essay:
Ronald Hitzler & Michaela Pfadenhauer (Eds.) (2001). Techno-Soziologie:
Erkundungen einer Jugendkultur [Techno-Sociology: Exploration of a Youth
Culture]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-stingl-e.ht=
m

Tilmann Walter (Germany): Review Note: kea. Zeitschrift fuer
Kulturwissenschaften [kea. Journal for Cultural Sciences] (2001),
Ausgabe 14: Heteronormativitaet [Heteronormativity
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-walter-e.ht=
m

Till Westermayer (Germany): Review Note: Peter Berger (2001). Computer
und Weltbild. Habitualisierte Konzepte von der Welt der Computer
[Computer and Worldview. Habitualized Concepts of the World of
Computers]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-westermayer=
-e.htm

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There are some things money can't buy.

Large Hadron Collider: $350 billion.

2,800 Physicists and support personnel: $450 million.

Lab Coats, Jolt and caffeinated mints: $25,000.

Accidentally annihilating everything within a couple of light years: Priceless.

(Via Brad DeLong.)

[Kieran Healy's Weblog]

well 'ends' like annihilation aren't bad things overall, once its over, whose to judge….