Oh and yes, no one but an idiot would start a reading list (however it is that it has been compiled, reference to reference way, or search way, or both) no one but an idiot would start to read at A and go till Z!!!!

So, yes, I dont have such plans. What I was trying to say is that my research is at very highly popular cutting edge, amongst academic and policy circles, so there is a large amount of different sources coming in all the time. (This is a problem, that researchers of online phenomena perhaps have a little more than film or tv researchers, but let me not go into the details of the field!!)

All in all, I have a very crisp and tight topic, that's been progressing rather well, the problem is not so much in reading all over the place (which really is not something I am doing) but a problem of dealing with cross cutting interfaces in a very fluid and malleable cutting edge zone.

best.

It is a topic, that is, in my supervisor's words a long needed theoretical and empirical intervention in our field.

Anyway, what i meant was this: my searches span currently around 7 disciplines, and all of which have some 'interface' with certain aspects of the 'subject'.

So let's say the subject is Social Networking Sites (Facebook for eg). There are medics writing about its uses for them, communication scholars, sociologists, anthros, even historians: My approach let's say is to use them as an instance for a specific phenomenon X of relevance towards the theoretical progression of niche field Y.

But I am still interested (and indeed intrigued) by the ways in which diverse disciplines have interfaced with this one thing: hence the keyword searches (And yes, much is banal!).


Ultimately, we all know, the real question how (if at all) these interfaces inform my question.


Does that show some clarity in the way in which i've been progressing?

Oh Rubyw Thank you a million times for looking it up :) It's so helpful of you.

Ok now for the reason behind my question that's driving you guys to counting numbers!

See, my research is at a certain cutting edge. First it is digital media, it involves the youth, you can probably imagine the number of academics that have gone bonkers producing endless research on such like. But still that's not the point. Because of the very nature of the topic it has a leg rooted in public policy (you can understand, that deals with youth and digital media). And cutting edge, i say, like EVERY moment things are changing and new literature is getting produced.

I am going crazy. I have a lit rev list (temporary) of 576 refernces, and one larger one (resulting from keyword searches across databases) for 1564 ones.

What do I DOOOOO?

(My conceptual framework has around 4 scholars, with 6 or 7 primary texts from each except one from whom i have 2)

HI!!

That was so very very helpful! Thanks so much for this :)

Ok Guys,

reviving what was evidently an unpopular thread. Simple thing. Anyone who's done a chapter length literature review, can you just, (just for the mo's sake) give me the number of references you had? Especially for interdisciplinary topics?

(All, you know I am not asking this as some kind of target/ideal to follow or copy and implement, and I do know how variable these things all are)

Best

May I just say, Well said Sneaks, Well Said!!!

Uhhm, I am unsure about what others will say, but your post, at least to me, appears a bit like time-machine stories! I am not sure what to say, it's like if a high school student realises suddenly that they've missed out on pre teen or even early teen hobby clubs, and wants to re do all of that in high school (which has its own joys and sets of clubs and equivalent stuff)..I am sure technically nobody's gonna stop you from joining Hall activities and other such undergrad-dominated stuff, but will you really like it?

I mean, at my uni, we PhDs avoid the undergrad haunts like crazy and hang out at our little pub..yes full of geeks but there's no geeky talk there LOL! Also, I hope you want to do a PhD for Phd-ish reasons and not cos you want to be at school for all the reasons you just said...


Well, I dont know what I am saying you could do, but definitely, you can technically join everything, but it's perhaps gonna feel and look a lil out of the usual, cos most such organized activities are usually pretty much undergrad and perhaps new post grads dominated....you will end up missing out on PhD peer activities, and then, when wil you make THAT up? PhD life demands other commitments, publishing, presenting, staying in touch with the latest research, seminars, hanging out with fellow researchers, research talk etc...

I guess you should do what this stage demands...be a doctoral student, and enjoy the trials and joys of the whole thing...its not bad. Trust me. :)

Yes Rubyw yes yes yes :) :) :)

Maggie maggie outsiders have also heard of LSE :p;-)

We did spectacularly well, and are so very hiiiigh up in the table, just a weeny bit behind cambridge!!!! Our dept did brilliantly and we celebrated with champagne. plus it was graduation too, and 2 of our PhDs got lovely jobs, even before they've submitted their thesis, so our teachers and we phds were beaming from ear to ear!

Saw it saw it!!!!!!!!!

You know it feels soo weird to write "thanks stressed"...change your name or something nah???

You arent stressed now (touchwood) so pick a nice and sunny name like ....uhhhmm....Honeybee or Sparkle or something


(okay now do you see how excited i am over graduation! Oh silly me, they shud send me back to the MSc class)

hehehhe yes, but gimme a star someoneee on another thread you made!!!!

lollolol


pl read professor heckles...or hackles on that page

Thanksss Stresssed!

I bought a new skirt, new shoes, new top, some make up, and my graduation attire is sooooo regal in gold and balck and stufff and I have a distinction!!!!!! YEAHHHH

Oh you guys, you are such serious students! I have actually been getting nothing done today (and tomorrow is my graduation ceremony yippeee!!)


But did you read the story of Professor Hackles at the end? OMG I died laughing...