I found this and tried this

…

So…. I made myself a mask of Jamuna

A says she sees some parellels between how Sudhir Alladi describes the Chicago “underground” economy and SL economies…

hmmm – I’m not sure I agree myself but can be made to see why she thinks so I am sure

well I am going today – so can discuss this f2f (or cellphone to cellphone locally) at length later this week.
Looking fwd to the “Dhaaram” (thread) shop opening on 10th!

{btw do check out all my shops on SL as well}

Since I will be there only two weeks (thanks to my grad coordinator duties for the summer….) I wont get to the rural areas this time – but the urban Dastkar Andhra work continues. Looking fwd to some more arguing matches with A, S, Sh – shopping for handloom (and SL textures!) with L and A…

Of course – also looking fwd to meeting the rest of the family!
(heh heh;-))

When I get back – I will revise the book proposal on the new SL related book and also finish up the final bits on the edited collection.

which link to issues of “Othering” – but more on that some other time.

This one needs the volume turned on.

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.

what can I say?

whose voices am I consuming as I say

why can I not say

when you can

but yet you want their authentic voices

what I tell you cannot be trusted

that’s what you say

as if you had heard the authentic

yourself

then why do you need me to reveal it to you

if you know what it should look like?

Professor Wiebe Bijker, Chair of the Department of Technology and Society Studies at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, is “visiting” my class during the month of March. He will be “meeting” us at http://www.cyberdiva.org/729, where members from my Grad class (COMS 729) as well as some of my Phd advisees and my NGO collaborators from Hyderabad India will engage him in discussion about his work in “Social Construction of Technology (“SCOT”) for which he is widely known.

Dr. Bijker’s website is at

http://137.120.191.229/public/websites/bijkernieuw/

It is a closed discussion with my class in the context of their coursework, of course.