There are some terms and concepts in the Germany language which directly impact my day to day work, but I have no English words for them. And a translation seems impossible because not a single word I would choose would even come close to reflecting the complexity of these nouns. I meant to write this […]
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10 Minute Lecture – Methodology Chapter
Almost ten minutes and almost ten years later I did it, first experiment with movie making software.This under 10 minute lecture is about writing a methodology chapter it is aimed for final year and master class students. It will give you a brief overview of the main points. Slide two gives a 1 minute introductory […]
Data Presentation, Analysis and Language
This is a blog response to Bookling who wrote an interesting post this morning that concurs with my own questions. I have occasionally ranted about my issues with appropriate data representation, which symptomatic for ethnography, can be quite messy. I will write an update on this once I am done with the final draft of […]
Learning About Ethnography
The Ender Saga – Book 2 Not too long ago a famous ethnographer wrote that as an ethnographer one needs to read, to appreciate all forms and styles of reading, not only scientific texts, but fiction and tales and even poems. Sometimes I wonder, if somehow in writing, universal truth is established as subtext, even […]
Adventures in Academic Development 