… but I have been busy busy busy.
Objectives:
This research is interested in the role of online writing for the construction of self and exploration of place-identity. The central research question asks, “How do we construct a sense of self and negotiate our understanding of place in the traditionally non-spatial, mediated online world?”. I will address [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘candidacy’
September 12, 2008
A long time between drinks…
July 31, 2008
Wanted to purchase: 1x writing mojo
The best thing I’ve written so far:
Surely ‘place’ is a challenging, if not unusual, concept to investigate in relation to the Internet. The context is non-physical by design, and this is seen as one of its many benefits: boundaries are broken down and space rendered meaningless. But then again, we are also regarded as existing [...]
April 9, 2008
A title, for now.
Current working title of my thesis, as of about ten minutes ago:
In words and pictures: Narrating self through blogging, and other online discourses of being.
I like it. But I’m sure that will change…