I am ready to articulate my ontological resistance to so-called AI. It’s not just because it’s over-branded hype (coopting a concept from science fiction and futurism for what is basically an obtuse, upscaled algorithm). It’s not just because of the massive, uncredited resource extraction (both of human creators and of all the raw materials it […]
Scholars never spent much time on Strauss & Howe, but their generational theory has lived on in public opinion. I’ve been grateful for Pew, who have made age cohorts as sound as the science allows. But I see them saying the science isn’t strong enough to sustain.
It’s a personal narrative with citations. And maybe some theory. And some equivocating over the imperfections of memory. And maybe dead academics sharing a hot tub with the author.
My content analysis goes slowly, but I got a boost when I decided to update my coding sheets and go ahead and record the data from the first 10 chapters. Up to this point, I’ve been focused primarily on secondary data, meaning that someone else conducted research and then shared their data with the public […]
I’ve finally developed a content analysis model I like for my literature sidequest, but implementing it has been an education of its own. I’ve never fully gained control of my reading speeds: I have slow and extremely focused or I have quick skimming. I’ll retain the slow approach well, but if I stop to take […]
— and yes, there has to be a process —
The goal of graduate school is not to learn everything there is to learn about a field; indeed, the breadth of anything warranting the term “field” should be far too deep, and when you add in the hyperspecialization researchers and educators are expected to develop there’s simply too much for any one mind to handle. […]
Two quick notes for future contemplation (then the inevitable tangents): The sheer joy I feel in organizing a segment of thesis, only to slash it away into a separate document for future development, tells me everything I need about whether research is a good direction for my life. It wasn’t until I was working on […]
I’ve only conducted one other interview in graduate school. Although I think I did a great job with the interview itself, I was trying to shoehorn a lot into a theory class whose scope should have been much more precise. This is part of why I don’t think I’m good at theory. I can’t focus […]
I am, to be honest, quite fried this week, so I’m going to share my notes unstructureded in response to Michelle Ortlipp’s “Keeping and Using Reflective Journals in the Qualitative Research Process”. I like the idea of balancing “transparency” against poststructuralism (697) and “making my history, values, and assumptions open to scrutiny” (698) I note […]
Theories of Care 