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20 August 2012
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Diss This #16: The Coming-to-Be of a Dissertation on African-American Mom Bloggers: Part Three

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 …

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19 August 2012
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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 …

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18 August 2012
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Diss This #14: The Coming-to-Be of a Dissertation on African-American Mom Bloggers: Part One

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 …

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4 April 2012
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Situating God in This Ph.D. Journey

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 …

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25 January 2012
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Diss This #13: Moving Forward in the Diss Process

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 …

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20 September 2011
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Diss This #12: Qualifying Exams

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 …

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13 August 2011
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I Have an Entry in the Encyclopedia of Social Networks

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 …

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5 June 2011
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Diss This #11: Pre-Proposal and Quals

I’m not sure how one is supposed to feel when she reaches this moment, but I was over-the-moon happy. What moment is this? Finally having my pre-proposal approved and quals date set.
I went through three revisions of the pre-proposal with my diss chair before we submitted it to the entire …

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22 May 2011
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Six Strengths of Quality Qualitative Research

After mentioning several studies that she felt illustrated quality in their qualitative research (Cherny 1999; Danet 2001; Markham 1998; Turkle 1996; Baym 2000), Baym states that the arguments developed in these works are compelling because of “at least six interrelated strengths they share: they are grounded in theory and data, …

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5 April 2011
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Diss This #9: Pre-Proposal Goes to Full Committee

I wasn’t sure this day would happen, and it’s just a small, teeny tiny step in the progress, but it’s a step, so that makes it important. For the last month, month and a half, I’ve been going back and forth with my dissertation chair with my pre-proposal. With his …

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14 February 2011
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Diss This #8: Coursers, Qualies & Dissertators

As a doctoral student, I am always thinking about what I’ve done, what I’m about to do, what I will do in this journey. This is one of my first podcasts regarding the life of coursers, qualies, and dissertators–the phases we tend to go through as Ph.D. students. I hope …

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