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		<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->{"id":31,"date":"2008-07-14T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slewth.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/14\/ambulant-research-books-and-blogging\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T11:28:03","slug":"ambulant-research-books-and-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/ambulant-research-books-and-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulant research, books and blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Ambulant research, books and blogging\", \"31\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"31\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>Saturday was the 3rd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldsmiths.ac.uk\/livesociology\/\">LiveSociology<\/a> workshop at Goldsmiths, London, focusing on &#8216;the way we use sound in the context of research&#8217;. We were a slightly depleted group due to the holiday season, but it was a good session, continuing a stimulating attack on the notion of sociology (&#8216;the science of the interview&#8217;) as a text-only discipline of figures and words. I was particularly struck by several issues raised during the day. <\/p>\n<p>The first is the notion of the &#8216;ambulant interviewer&#8217;. Prof Les Back discussed this in terms of a researcher physically interviewing on the move, and the place of sound in this. In my own research I realised this described my own use of the Internet during a (seated) interview in an alternative but useful way. Informing an interview with a Internet-enabled computer allows me and a participant to wander together online and respond to the onscreen environments we find ourselves in. Taking-the-computer-for-a-walk. I imagine that mobile technologies have already pushed ambulant research in different directions, as might immersive online environments, but I&#8217;ll certainly be looking at the methods literature in this area to discover how I can better inform my research. <\/p>\n<p>Another issue raised relates to how research materials are assessed. Whilst some journals recognise the ways new media allow research to develop (I&#8217;m thinking particularly of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socresonline.org.uk\/\">Sociological Research Online<\/a> here) I&#8217;m aware that I will be submitting my thesis as a book. This can account for a photo essay, diagrams, tables, maps, drawings. It is a flexible medium (very high resolution, strong internal\/external reference systems with a battery life of several hundred years! etc. etc.), but the thesis does not replicate hypermedia, video, sound or temporality in the way a blog can. Should it? And what happens when you turn a blog into a book? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/\">Blurb<\/a> offers such a service, and is reasonably priced. I love the idea of adding all this ephemeral material to a shelf as an artifact (proof I&#8217;m doing something?!), but what is lost? Could this qualify as an appendix for academic submission? <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Ambulant research, books and blogging\", \"31\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"31\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>Saturday was the 3rd LiveSociology workshop at Goldsmiths, London, focusing on &#8216;the way we use sound in the context of research&#8217;. 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