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well if dana and frank have blogged about it - I must go check out what its about right?

There was something in my writing journey today - following what began on Friday that made me go back and find this and this and this

I have removed jabberwocky a while ago…

a while ago…

and holi moleee

Reading P and C “Scene one” contributions for our QI article.

Both of their pcs point to the layered ways in which “voice” is produced at the intersection of the speaker and audience.

what does it mean to have voice in such a process - in the process of contesting particular colonialist readings of the Other - what happens to the voice of the researcher who is viewed as an “Other” (whether she takes on the label or not) in the telling?

what is the problem in how we conceptualize “voice” that allows the researcher to get positioned as victim or betrayer or the not-truely Other enough to be able to re-present authentic Others’ voices?

వూరు

“Vooru” – I punch that into the Padma telugu transformer – remember that at the theory cluster meeting they asked me if that was a form of insult.

But of course I cant cut and paste it onto the word document - but it works here - so maybe I should continue the notes here and set it to protected….

anyway to get the vooru in my word document (because Ileap or baraha wont work on the mac) I grabbed and saved…

I look at other people’s blogs - those that do research in areas similar to mine - at the “new” tech interface. I see that a lot of them are narrating their research thoughts - clearly articulated as such. Either ethnographies, assessment or predictions of such technologies….

I wonder then what my blog is about. I guess just scattered notes based in my life as it weaves in and out of teaching, researching, travelling, feeling, playing, talking, doing the everyday mundane stuff…

what theoretical insights or “important” information can a blog such as this give to the average reader. Or even - what entertainment does it provide?

In a sense then while I do write from myself - and for select few known people - I am wondering if I have an audience in mind when I write (to take from J’s teaching presentation yesterday - is there an interpretive community out there to make sense of anything I write).

hmmm

and to think I titled this blog entry as “yesterday”…:)

why did I do that?

Well - because when I began this post, I wanted to write about how yesterday’s workshop with AV made me realize why I have not been able to write the Rajavolu field notes coherently and with narrative flow.

I also wanted to write about some teaching advice I got from AM via cell phone in relation to the conversations on http://www.cyberdiva.org/729 - though I would not have written all of it - and would have made it private if I had. I also wanted to repond to MA’s email to me indirectly - but again - if I had done so directly, I would have set this post to protected by password and sent out the password to MA and a few others…

Because there is a personal story - a “fict-ethnography” that needs writing….there are several personal stories…

In her comment response to my youtube fict-ethno staging authenticities pce, MA asked something like “why would we want to return home”….

perhaps it is not a “returning” I am writing of - but of a re-discovery - and of a knowing through another person - who is my “home” - and her knowing comes to me in flashes of “memories” through the earth and water and air as I go to the field re-membering the journeys… writing my fict-ethnographic notes…

so what is my blog about…?

I’ll let you tell me if you are reading this.

its a strange journey we take
through writing spaces…

suddenly without knowing why

the writing betrays my secrets

we are bound by a bond of desperate trust

for if my writing has decided to reveal to you

there must have been something in the air that moment

hover amidst us all

a strange mystique

created from each of us dwelling intensely

on what we had learned

why

its a strange place that this writing takes us to

as we stumble into the public spaces

where it takes us

revealing secrets we did not even know we kept…

what conversations do I want to be a part of?

and can I chose?

The Theory Cluster hosted the first of the Critical Paradigms series with Dr. Adrienne Viramontes doing a workshop on Documenting the Self and Others today. Our next workshop in this series will be with Dr. Michael Butterworth - Title and time and date TBA (originally it was to have been next week on Thursday, but we had to reschedule….)

Today’s workshop was attended by AS, BB, KS, NR, NH and YZ in addition to me and Adrienne. We had a very productive writing session, and now plan on working on a book of essays with Adrienne leading us.

Perhaps now I can go ahead with my notes…:)

International Journal of Internet Research Ethics

Announcing the release of the International Journal of Internet Research Ethics
Call for Papers for the Premier Issue of IJIRE
Description and Scope:
The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences, are reflected in the journal.

With the emergence of Internet use as a research locale and tool throughout the 1990s, researchers from disparate disciplines, ranging from the social sciences to humanities to the sciences, have found a new fertile ground for research opportunities that differ greatly from their traditional biomedical counterparts. As such, “populations,” locales, and spaces that had no corresponding physical environment became a focal point, or site of research activity. Human subjects protections questions then began to arise, across disciplines and over time: What about privacy? How is informed consent obtained? What about research on minors? What are “harms” in an online environment? Is this really human subjects work? More broadly, are the ethical obligations of researchers conducting research online somehow different from other forms of research ethics practices?

As Internet Research Ethics has developed as its own field and discipline, additional questions have emerged: How do diverse methodological approaches result in distinctive ethical conflicts – and, possibly, distinctive ethical resolutions? How do diverse cultural and legal traditions shape what are perceived as ethical conflicts and permissible resolutions? How do researchers collaborating across diverse ethical and legal domains recognize and resolve ethical issues in ways that recognize and incorporate often markedly different ethical understandings?

Finally, as “the Internet” continues to transform and diffuse, new research ethics questions arise – e.g., in the areas of blogging, social network spaces, etc. Such questions are at the heart of IRE scholarship, and such general areas as anonymity, privacy, ownership, authorial ethics, legal issues, research ethics principles (justice, beneficence, respect for persons), and consent are appropriate areas for consideration.

The IJIRE will publish articles of both theoretical and practical nature to scholars from all disciplines who are pursuing—or reviewing—IRE work. Case studies of online research, theoretical analyses, and practitioner-oriented scholarship that promote understanding of IRE at ethics and institutional review boards, for instance, are encouraged. Methodological differences are embraced.

Publication Schedule:
The IJIRE is published twice annually, March 1, and October 15.
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, and are subject to
Editorial and Peer Review.

Subscription:
Free
Editors- in- Chief:
Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Information Policy Research
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
elizabeth.buchanan@gmail.com
Charles M. Ess, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor
Drury University
cmess@drury.edu

Editorial Board:
Andrea Baker, Ohio University, USA
Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University, USA
Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, USA
Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech, USA
Mark Johns, Luther College, USA
Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Tomas Lipinski, JD, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Ulf-Dietrich Reips, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Susannah Stern, San Diego State University, USA
Malin Sveningsson, Ph.D., Karlstad University, Sweden