Marjan Nadim held a brilliant lecture about generalization in qual research at OsloMet today. My photo librabry is now fully stocked with methodological one-liners.
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Lars E. F. Johannessen
@LarsJohannessen@sciences.social
mastodon 4.7.3Associate professor in Knowledge, Expertise and Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University + fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
Academic interests: Digital culture • Qualitative methods • Theorizing • Microsociology • STS
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My motto for the new semester:
"There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people" - Nandor
As a productivity-obsessed academic, I needed to read this:
"[A good video game is] a delicious waste of time [...It] makes no demands other than the age-old pleasures of great story combined with the very modern possibilities of immersion. And none of it matters except the enjoyment of the doing."
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/06/20/533617105/why-you-should-play-video-games
Reading List:
"Person, Thing, Robot" by Robert Gunkel
"Rather than try to fit robots into the existing categories (...,) Gunkel argues for a revolutionary reformulation of the entire system, developing a new moral and legal ontology for the twenty-first century and beyond."
Read the open access book here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5641/Person-Thing-RobotA-Moral-and-Legal-Ontology-for
Weekend highlight: Not only did my three-year-old son fall asleep on my chest for the time since he was a baby -- he did so while I was laying in the couch with my Nintendo controller so close that I got to do an hour of Tears of the Kingdom 🥰
Reading list:
Sociological research is often criticised for providing "excuses" for people doing bad things, preventing them from being rightfully blamed and punished. This special issue looks at social scientific debates about such "exculpatory" consequences:
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/esta/24/3
#SocialTheory #Sociology #STS #Commodon #MediaStudies #Anthropology @sociology@a.gup.pe
Nearing the end of the fall semester it's time for everyone's favorite game show: Am I burned out or simply coming down with something?
Thoroughly enjoying this book atm. Instead of your run-of-the-mill analytic-philosophical snarkiness, it's full of musings on how to become a better, more humble thinker.
Hi, I'm Lars, and I find pathological satisfaction in pen-and-paper planning
Woke up at 05:15, after a terrible nightmare in which my department head had emailed to ask if I had a full day to spare in the near future.
The ERC deadline is nearing and my life feels like season 2 of The Bear 🫠
✨ New paper in Information, Communication & Society: Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings ✨
The article proposes the concept of multi-site domestication to capture how technologies can require different "taming" processes when used across institutional settings with different and at times opposing norms, rules, values, and logics.
#STS #MediaStudies #commodon #domestication #DomesticationTheory #Robots
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2255644
Unclench your jaw.
It's grant season (again...), and I strongly felt the need to make a meme
Recommended reading:
"The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics" by Amy Orben
Replying to
@olivermarsh@sciences.social @mikarv@someone.elses.computer @lilianedwards@someone.elses.computer I really enjoyed this paper by Nora Gross on how Instagram offers unique affordances for expressing grief among Black boys who otherwise face strict restrictions on their emotional displays. Well worth a read!
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08912416221105869
Meanwhile in Norway: Our Minister of Research and Higher Education stepped down after being caught for plagiarism in her 2014 master's thesis. 3 452 of its 15 794 words were directly copied from other MA theses.
https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/wA1Kvo/saa-mye-av-sandra-borchs-masteroppgave-er-kopiert
Got another entry in my "CV of Failures" today, with my application for basic science funding from the Research Council of Norway getting rejected. Only 36 of 417 projects got funding, though, and only 9 of these 36 were in SSH, so it's not the end of the world.
Reading list:
Paul Lichterman (2021): “Qualitative Research” Is a Moving Target
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-021-09499-8
@mmin@assemblag.es Interesting! This would actually include all forms of imaginary and parasocial interaction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction). I think we're onto something!
@mmin@assemblag.es My sociology mind wants this to be a 4 x 4 table, but the missing option greet-but-not-meet seems a bit off 😢