RFC - My thesis proposal
My site now has a short summary of my planned PhD research: Private Lives Lived in Public: Weblogs and Self Performance. I would be interested in what people think of it and I am particularly interested in hearing more about:
- Theories of how producers of alternative media - particularly earlier ones - benefit from being able to perform aspects of themselves hitherto denied them (Clemencia Rodr?guez is my only non-new media source so far).
- Sociological literatures on reflexive self performance (particularly autobiography) Where would be a good place to start with Judith Butler?
- Methodologically, in principle any communication is arguably a form of self performance but some are more clearly self-performative than others. For example I would argue Justin’s video below is intensely self-performative while “I ate corn flakes this morning - I like corn flakes” is less so. Would concentrating on the authors of weblogs at the ‘highly performative’ end of this continuum be a defensible research practice and if so how can I choose them in a consistent fashion?
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February 6th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
First I would start out with some of the purely performance literatures. I find myself consistently revisiting - Denzin, Norman K. (2003). Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications. It never fails to give me new ideas and point me in the direction of liturature to get me started.
On the methodology question, I do believe it would be defensible to concentrate on the authors of weblogs at the ?highly performative? end of this continuum if your question supported that choice. The real bug, as you have noted, is how to you choose them in a consistent fashion. The only suggestion I have is to use some grounded theory methodology and code a large general sample, then look at what features make up those you consider to be at the highly performative end of the spectrum.