Cultural Interfaces Research Blogging: Fall 2008
This week, my students begin their research blogging assignment, which asks them to post a blog entry that focuses on their assessment of a specific source, interview, survey results, or even their own developing argument as part of their research process. All the student projects are focused on a particular culture or subculture as their starting point; however, from past experience, I know that they will evolve into very sharp, focused arguments over the next few weeks. Here's what you can look forward to reading over the next few weeks:
Week of Oct. 6th:
Green culture/environmentalism
Facebook/ social networking sites
Week of Oct. 13th:
Ethnic-theme dorms on Stanford campus (where students opt to leave with people of the same cultural background/race)
Stereotypes of gun owners in the US
Women entrepreneurs in Vietnams and gender ideology
Cyber Music Pirates (illegal music sharing online)
Week of Oct 20th:
Blogging culture
Online communities as emerging subcultures
Online information and social equality
Internet addiction and the PC Bangs (internet cafes) of South Korea
Week of Oct 27th:
Persecution of Christians in China
Online fan culture: fantasy football
American baseball - materialism vs recreation
L.A. Gang culture
We invite your comments or responses, particularly on those topics that interest you or intersect with research of your own.
Comments
I happen to read about your entry...http://www.stanford.edu/group/ccr/blog/2008/10/personal_blogging.html...so you think that people like me who blog, and not necessarily for entertainment or entertain ourselves, you see people like me as "with a stranger’s life, and quite often their life is silly, preposterous, ridiculous"
When I first had my internet way back 1997, I was introduced to this wonderful tool called "blog" and since i like to write about my thoughts, i figured that it would also be wise to have it stored in a blog just in case something happens to my computer, its a nice way to keep up a journal of your life's progress, similar to what you've posted here, so if you happen to be one of those "intellectually gifted" to come across my blog, you will also see me as a "silly, preposterous, ridiculous" I don't know you and I don't intend to, but please, give us credit and justice here. Most of us don't go over the internet to be made fun of. I understand you do this for research, but as a behavioural science student, you have no right to tag people just because they are different from you...i have also counselled several people who thinks that some (bloggers) people, to be "silly, preposterous, ridiculous" and they end up...uh...nevermind...
Posted by: Czarnecki | January 28, 2009 08:13 PM