• Timeframe: 03/15 – throughout research project

Description

Near the end of phase 1 of the course, we will shift our attention to constructing qualitative data for your autoethnographies. Each week you will gather artifacts and write fieldnotes and memos to help you:

• Continuously refine your research problem and question;
• Integrate particular readings from the first phase of the course with your rhetorical exeriences with technology; and
• Any other aspects that you deem important along the way.

Grading

• Upload / write at least 4 fieldnotes before every class on Thursday.
  • Fieldnotes will vary in length, but should be as descriptive and detailed about some-thing or some event pertinent to your project.
• Upload / write at least 3 conceptual memos before every class on Thursday.
  • Memos can be quick notes about conceptual connections, but can also be freeform writing/drawing combinations to help you think through particular experiences in connection with the literature.
• Consistency is key and is the main focus of the grade. Time permitting, I will provide comments, suggestions, questions, and nudges here and there, wherever I see that I can offer help. Take note, though, that these writings are for your projects, so the quality, candor, and earnestness of them will ultimately shape your project. The less you engage these writings, the less developed that your project will be.

Logistics

• Please create the following baseline structure for your project’s directory on Google Drive:

      /autoeth-[last name][firstname initial]
        /fieldnotes
        /memos

• Then, invite me as an editor to this folder.
• Feel free to invite each other to your Drive folders, so you can comment on particular ideas, memos, sets of texts, etc. This is not required, but a good additional feedback mechanism.