1. I want to love what Cushman is saying in the “Rhetorican” piece…but I’m not sure I do. Does the model of reciprocity she’s positing work for everyone else? I can’t help feeling like it’s building in some power relations with which I’m not comfortable in the way that she frames it. Further, is this [...]
Book Review, Journal, and Rationale
Book Review:
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. New York: Vintage Books, 2001. 501 pp.
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth is one of the more interesting explorations of material rhetoric that I have read…which may not [...]
Questions 10/23
1. Lauer and Asher emphasize the amount of time that an ethnography takes. What’s the shortest amount of time in which one could do a “valid” ethnography? Would it be possible to do an ethnography-esque assignment with students in any meaningful fashion? (And, hey, what would “valid” mean in this case anyway?)
2. Smith’s piece spends [...]
Questions (10/9)
1. How might Web 2.0 technologies affect surveys, both in methodology and response?
2. I was interested by the reference to Miller’s “magical number seven, plus or minus two” as the limits of short-term memory. How can this be taken into account with surveys, other research tools, and in our classrooms? What should be done differently?
3. [...]
