Comments on: RFC - My thesis proposal http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2005/02/rfc-my-thesis-proposal/ A weblog for staff and students of the Media department at the London School of Economics Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:25:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Lois http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2005/02/rfc-my-thesis-proposal/#comment-243 Lois Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:25:59 +0000 http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2005/02/rfc-my-thesis-proposal/#comment-243 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. 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.

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