(Image courtesy of the Degrassi Wiki) Let’s travel back to a formative time when I used to come home after school every day and watch reruns of the original Degrassi Junior High – a Canadian-made TV drama about tough teen issues. An episode* halfway through season three stands out: one of the main characters, Snake (theyContinue reading “Beginnings of a PhD project: Coming out and social media”
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Not ready to throw in the towel yet: Thoughts on Big Data, digital social research, and academia
(Not the future, merely the Gladstone Link) Full disclosure: This was written for a ‘position paper’ assignment in my Digital Social Research course at the OII. The article by Savage and Burrows (2007) plays on an insecurity that haunts me every time I pay my tuition: what ensures that social researchers have valuable, employable skills?Continue reading “Not ready to throw in the towel yet: Thoughts on Big Data, digital social research, and academia”
Age old debates and the perils of endless reflexivity
(Photo taken at the Ashmolean Museum) Nothing like an assigned reading about the use of blogs in research (Wakeford & Cohen, 2008) to convince me that blogging is a worthwhile pursuit and not just semi-productive procrastination. The authors reminded me that blogging is supposed to be ‘of the moment’ and so I’ll share with youContinue reading “Age old debates and the perils of endless reflexivity”
Sweat pants, pubs, and libraries: You know you’re on Campus When… (Or, How to Pick a University)
(Sadly, this post lacks current pop culture references because it was written in March while riding on a train back to Ottawa after my Epic Campus Tour. To compensate, here is the latest episode of Snooki & JWOWW) Photo effects courtesy of Instagram: campus art. In my hunt to set myself up for the best possibleContinue reading “Sweat pants, pubs, and libraries: You know you’re on Campus When… (Or, How to Pick a University)”
More than a Smile: First Impressions via Facebook
Photo courtesy of Instagram, all my smiling pictures were much too cheesy. A couple of weeks ago, the reading list for my graduate program was sent out – be still my heart and my 1-click purchasing finger (Amazon, you are a genius) – and to no one’s surprise one of our classmates was inspiredContinue reading “More than a Smile: First Impressions via Facebook”
How to Create a Useful Twitter Network (Stalking for Success)
(Image courtesy of I Can Has Cheezburger) This is just to let you in on a secret: PROFS LOVE TWITTER. Well, not all of ’em, but definitely the ones studying the Internet. When I began my search for potential supervisors at universities across Canada, I realized that looking for professors who study a specific topicContinue reading “How to Create a Useful Twitter Network (Stalking for Success)”
I guess that answers that…
What’s this? It’s a list of my “academic interests”, you know, things I could possibly fathom researching, reading about and teaching in the future without my narcolepsy kicking in (well, it will anyways, but without the severity that it strikes me with the minute I enter a boardroom). It includes the following. The obvious: TheContinue reading “I guess that answers that…”
I’ll take a microchip instead
(Image found here) I’ve decided I want to learn everything. Well, not everything, but I’m certainly not picky enough. The more I read about graduate programs, the more I’d love to take them all. I skim through course listings and would mix and match from multiple universities if I had a private jet to takeContinue reading “I’ll take a microchip instead”
Stefanie Duguay 