The Multiplicity of Virtual Worlds
Our definitions and metaphors: Discussion of how researchers and designers as users make sense of virtual world technologies This short …
Category Archives: Research Method(ology)s
Cultivated Learning Theory: Graduate school, year one
In the theory class of the first semester of my first year as a graduate student, I was in a …
Minutia reception analysis
Methods for understanding the moment-by-moment reception of interactive media Oftentimes in media studies that focus on understanding media reception by …
So, Why Did the Media Fail You?
[This post comes from a 2005 research proposal studying how the media was perceived as hindering people. The entire proposal, …
Women and Video Game Addiction: Experimenting with research narratives
This is an experimental research paper relaying women’s stories, gathered with Sense-Making Methodology interviews, of times they felt they were …
The Individual-in-Engagement
I shall begin with what may be a radical position in addressing a media text, be it a film, a …
The Dilemma of “Accurate” Representation
How do we represent those we study, their experiences and lives we seek to understand, so that we are representing …
Wrestling with Epistemologies
(This writing is nearly six years old, and yet I find it just as useful for explaining myself now as …
A Musing on “The Other”
[From an assignment for a qualitative methodologies course taken in the fall of 2005] Readings Journal: Thoughts and reflections during …
