Of interest perhaps?

http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/disscalc/

Pie where r u? What did u decide?

Aww you guys i wish i had family and trees for the festive season :( :(

Thanks all for the wishes about the dinner-with-ex bit! Things may just get interesting!

It's raining Exs it seems, Well nothing beats my story! No family on this side of the planet, and all known faces gone! I am actually having dinner with my Ex (some emotions thrown in too!!!)

Now beat that!

Yup! I second Misspacey!

(On a sider, a shop assistant once told me my parents are the doctors of leaves and grass, a way of saying useless people! One holds a PhD in management another english literature, and no stetho so what, a DOCTOR? haha!)

explain explain:-)

PM PM PM me!

Your post on the Handbook of New Media had me grinning from ear to ear. Wont say why!

OKAY,

I shant say a word more.

PM me, lets hear the guess!

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Ahhhhhhh him!!!

No, but very close guess indeed! Okay, no more on this! This is an anon forum hehehe ;)

DB?

Who's that?

No, mine isn't DB at all!

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Hey Thanks!

yes, indeed the Aber group has taken a major step in our field with their programme and their journal , which is the first of its kind in our field and therefore quite the centre point of attention (where incidentally I have a brief piece forthcoming!)

Thanks for the advice, and keep in touch :)

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Hi bakuvia,

I am starting the 3rd month of my studies right now.

here's the core theoretical theme that inspires me and my supervisor for this project: As audience studies evolved with the interpretative skills people developed for televisual media, what are the challenges that emerge with the use of interactive digital media: What in other words are the new kinds of interpretative fits that develop between 'genre' and 'reader' (who is also now a writer, and where does all of this take audience reception in the new media age?

Our theoretical approach is that of digital literacies, and the 'case' selected is social network sites as a great instance of an emergent 'genre'.

Methods include tried and tested ones, as well as completely new creative/unorthodox ones.

Bodies of theory in interaction derive from communications studies, literary studies, literacy studies and indeed reception studies!

PS: Oh and indeed the people I work with are all young people, and late teens, and yes, part of the strategy is to link this all with the larger policy debates around youth and digital media in the UK, so yes, i am working with and indeed in conversation with policy debates in the field, in my research.

Hey, great that's fantastic! Uhmm, I dont work with cultural studies though, i belong to the audience reception studies tradition, and my work is kind of at a place that is trying to re-gear reception theory to interact with Web 2.0, so yes, all of the things you mention are somewhere on my map, but the ultimate theoretical and empirical agenda is to deal with reception studies (which is currently being creatively reframed with the help of digital literacies)..hmm,,,

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Yes Rubyw, exactly. I am developing a matrix for myself, grouping stuff (as you so usefully pointed out) by theme, approach, method (and a variety of other field specific stuff which I;m not going into here). That is useful, also because then what happens is that the web that Alice talks of automatically emerges, you see, from what seems like a linear and slightly mechanically acquired list.

Personally, i am a very graphical thinker, so matrices and tables worked from the most obscure of theories work well for me. The challenge is the intricacies of the process.

BUT, the benefits are: First, immensely satisfying, Second, does give you a great trans disciplinary vision, Third: helps in flagging out future research areas and fourth, i think it generates confidence about why you want to do what you want to do :)

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Hi

Thanks for all the replies. @Stressed, I have a 10000 word lit rev due on 15th Jan. My exploratory empirical work (slightly more ambitious than a pilot, as there is an article thats supposed to emerge) is scheduled from 17th jan to 10th Feb. Conceptual framework sketch due 15th Feb. It's terrifying.

Also, a paper due for submission 10th Jan, a presentation in front of one of the 4 scholars in my conceptual framework (yes, just imagine, he is an emeritus GREAT!) that's also in jan and which has to be fantastic (oh my gosh!), and a project with my sup that's on a commissioned grant, for early jan, and a piece emergent from some fieldwork by April.

And then a board, in summer.