Tag Archives: academic blogging

a blogging ‘identity’

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

I erased a post this morning, for the first time. I didn’t get rid of it altogether, because it’s OK. I just removed it from the schedule and saved it. I took it out of this blog because I realized … Continue reading →

Posted in academic blogging, identity, pedagogy, public/private, text work/identity work, there | Tagged , , , , , | 16 Comments

finding the time to blog

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

How do you get time to blog and tweet? This is a question I get asked a lot, as I’m sure other academic bloggers do too. The question is often accompanied by some kind of unspoken criticism. It’s as if … Continue reading →

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our paper on academic blogging: using powerpoint as a planning tool

Posted on December 2, 2012 by

Thesis Whisperer and I have been researching for a paper we are giving at a forthcoming conference. it’s about academic blogging and you can read our initial abstract here. We divided the researching task into two and Inger ‘found’ and … Continue reading →

Posted in academic blogging, argument, blogging, blogging taxonomy, planning a paper, powerpoint | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

focusing in on blogging literatures part two – #acwrimo work in progress

Posted on November 25, 2012 by

This is the sixth post about the literature review I am doing about academic blogging for a paper/project with Thesis Whisperer. I’m working to a short time frame, and using a three-stage approach – scoping, mapping and focusing in. I … Continue reading →

Posted in academic blogging, acwrimo, blogging, blogging taxonomy, focusing in, interpretation, scoping | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments

analysing blogs is messy, but that’s OK. #acwrimo work in progress

Posted on November 22, 2012 by

This post is from Inger, Thesis Whisperer, about the process of researching academic blogs. Here she discusses making decisions about method, and provides a glimpse, via a link to her google doc, of actual data analysis happening in real time. … Continue reading →

Posted in academic blogging, acwrimo, data, epistemology, grounded theory, mess, qualitative data, spread sheet | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

stepping back to focus in – literature review stage three. #acwrimo work in progress

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

The title of this post – and of this stage of the literature review – might sound confusing. How can you both step back and focus in? Well I want you to imagine that you’re in an art gallery. If … Continue reading →

Posted in academic blogging, blogging, debates in the field, focusing in, history of the field, key figures in the field, literature review | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

mapping the literatures – noting. #acwrimo work in progress

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

I have been asked many times to talk about my own noting practices. So now seems like as good a time as any. What do my notes look like for this literatures work? The caveat I must make here is … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, blogging taxonomy, literature mapping, literature review, literature themes, note-taking | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

mapping the literatures, step two. #acwrimo work in progress

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

I left off the last post on literature work at the point of having a base set of literatures about blogging that I had drawn from peer-reviewed journals. I’d skimmed all of the abstracts once, in order to weed out … Continue reading →

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literature review step one, scoping. #acwrimo work in progress

Posted on November 11, 2012 by

One of the things that we all have to do when starting a piece of research is to find out what else has been said about our topic. This is usually called the literature review, although I prefer to think … Continue reading →

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#acwrimo work in progress: how to research academic blogging?

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

In this post Thesis Whisperer opens up the issues around METHODS – how to actually do the research we need to do on our joint paper on academic blogs. The methods section, especially in a project that includes empirical research, … Continue reading →

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