Methodspace
An interesting site called Methodspace “is the home of the Research Methods community from across the world”. Based on my reading, the site appears to be supported by Sage Publications. After being granted access to the site I was pleased to learn that many wonderful colleagues have posted to the site and have begun sharing [...]
Dialogue and Representation Conference
Members of the DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG list posted the following call today: Call for Papers : DIALOGUE AND REPRESENTATION IADA — International Association for Dialogue Analysis 13th International Conference on Dialogue Analysis www.dialogue-representation.org April 26-30, 2011 Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Analysis – it’s not about the software
A wonderrful discussion thread on QUALRS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU about using software for data analysis broadly, and grounded theory specifically, included reference to the following text that discusses phases of analysis through reading and reflection. While I prefer to be able to organize my data via a software program and engage in similar processes described in the discussion, I [...]
Manchester Ethnography Group
Wishing that I could attend the upcoming Manchester Ethnography Group Seminar tomorrow. The following message came via Jacqueline Eke: A reminder that our final spring seminar takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 14 April: Max Travers (University of Tasmania, Australia) In search of court culture: explaining juvenile detention rates in three Australian states. http://www.mmu.ac.uk 4.00 – 6.00pm [...]
Storytelling, Narrative, and Antenarrative
The following conference notice was posted today via the The Discourse Studies List <DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>: The 20th Annual Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry (sc’MOI) will be held April 14-16, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Theme will be: Storytelling, Narrative and Antenarrative: A Celebration of the Contributions of David Boje. Join the sc’MOI network at [...]
Qualitative Research for Human Sciences
The Qualitative Research for Human Sciences is another valuable discussion list. The list is hosted by the University of Georgia. The following link provides instructions for joining along with archives of list posts and discussions since September 1991. http://listserv.uga.edu/archives/qualrs-l.html
Manchester Ethnography Group
I recently joined the Manchester Ethnography Group Seminar mailing list for discussions hosted by Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDepartment of Sociology faculty.
LINGUIST list
I subscribe to an interesting list from the LINGUIST list . The site offers “a peer-reviewed database of language and language-family information, and recommendations of best practice for digitizing endangered languages data”. A recent thread on the e-mail list has centered on requests for resources on understanding and doing CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis). Of course, [...]
