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Methods
My dissertation uses a mixed-method approach to examine African-American mom bloggers’ online identity creation–individually and socially, and how these identities and the use of blogs enable interaction with readers and development of a community among African-American bloggers and their readers. This approach is three-fold: interviews with African-American mom bloggers, a …

Framework
At least three foregrounded identities present themselves for the African-American mom blogger: African-American (race), Woman (gender), and Mother (work). Each of these identities is embedded with its own history that must be negotiated by the woman. It’s not a one-time negotiation; it’s fluid, changing to reflect new experiences outside and …

Intro
In the summer of 2010, I took an Internet Writing course, and in the class, we had to write a paper that focused on some aspect of writing for the Internet. At the time of the class, I was in my last leg of course work and was trying to …

Calling all readers of African-American mom blogs!
I am conducting a study on the blogging practices of African-American mom bloggers.
I invite you to participate in our study by taking a survey geared toward readers of these blogs.
To understand the blogging practices of African-American mom bloggers, it is important to explore the …

Taken from YouTube: In this accessible introductory lecture, Hall focuses on the concept of “representation”– one of the key ideas of cultural studies– and shows how reality is never experienced directly, but always through the symbolic categories made available by society.

It’s not often I bring God onto my academic blog, and I should. After all, had he not told me to come to TTU, I wouldn’t be three years in on a Ph.D.
I love how God will send you a quick little e-mail like, “Remember when THIS happened?” as a …

In early December 2011, I was able to go to a talk in Second Life by anthropologist and author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, Tom Boellstorff [Tom Bukowski in-world].
Athabasca University Island in Second Life held the event.

As stated by Boellstorff: In this …

It’s been awhile since I’ve last posted. Last semester was a tough one for me, but I managed to accomplish the things I had set before me. I took and passed the qualifying exams at the end of August, I wrote and had approved my full proposal, and I submitted …

Participant Information Sheet
PhD Glasgow Caledonian University Scotland
Project Title – Health literacy skills of people who access health information in virtual worlds and the impact on real life health behaviour?
Thank you for taking the time to read this information. You are being invited to take part in a study to find …

I recently learned that I passed my qualifying exams: the day would be September 9, 2011. It was a hot day, and I had been waiting 11 days, on pins and needles, awaiting a call from my chair. As I typed…no, I won’t bore you with the narration of the big …

It goes live for purchase next month, and I finally saw a cover of it, Encyclopedia of Social Networks. A classmate forwarded the call for submission to me over a year or so ago, and I immediately contacted those in charge of the call. Unfortunately, by the time I contacted …

Chapters are being sought for an edited volume, which seeks to map the study of religion in relation to digital games and gaming environments. The book will
focus on how video games can be read as religious texts, rituals or experiences, as well as investigations of religious narratives/themes employed in video …

Dear Colleagues,
Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book on Virtual Worlds in Online and Distance Education, to be published by Athabasca University Press as part of Terry Anderson’s Issues in Distance Education series. The book’s scope will encompass the use of virtual worlds for fully online/distance and blended modes …