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Penny Tinkler and Carolyn Jackson: The Doctoral Examination Process
Heavily weighted toward viva, but useful chapters. Very nicely presented to limit mystification of process.
Malcolm Ashmore: The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
deep, man.
Allaine Cerwonka: Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Fascinating insight into the processs of a PhD, plus interesting theoretical insights from an ethnographer
David Boud and Alison Lee (eds): Changing Practices of Doctoral Education
Excellent and useful collection of essays (****)
Annette Markham and Nancy Baym: Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method
Interesting structure to this book. Each chapter consists of an article, followed by a response, followed by a second response from the author. So it really is a conversation. (****)
Barbara Kamler & Pat Thomson: Helping Doctoral Students Write:: Pedagogies For Supervision
Best. Book. Yet. Bloody Brilliant. Combines pedagogical thinking, post-structuralist ideas about writing/identity and practical advice (*****)
Carolyn Ellis: The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography (Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series)
Better than I'd thought it would be. Ellis isn't a skilled novelist but she is a storyteller and has created a workmanlike and occasionally absorbing book that describes autoethnography by doing it. But didactic nature of subject gets in the way. (***)
Mary Chayko: Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age
Excellent overview that puts internet communities into the context of both our everyday and less usual relationships (*****)
Laurel Richardson: Fields of Play: (Constructing an Academic Life)
Interesting retrospective by Richardson over her academic careeer, using the writing she has done to give the perspective. Good exemplars of reflective writing and interesting as a history of the difficulty faced by a qualitative researcher as her discipline developed in the second half of the 20th century. (***)
Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs: Uses of Blogs (Digital Formations)
Several useful chapters (eg Halvais) including Toril Mortenson reflecting on her earlier seminal article (***)
Ruth Behar: The Vulnerable Observer : Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
Some wonderful essays. The Girl in the Cast is my favourite, and I also liked Anthropology that Breaks your heart. (****)
Annette N. Markham: Life Online: Researching real experience in virtual space
(*****)
Christine Hine (ed): Virtual Methods
Variable contributions, some not well-thought through. But many are cutting-edge and all seem to have at least one interesting insight for me. (****)
Tara Brabazon: Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching
Tara's book is largely a rant, and an ill-informed one from my end of time. This is pre-Web2.0, of course. But her chapter on virtual communities may be useful. (**)
Christopher Hart: Doing a Literature Review : Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination
Etienne Wenger: Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
Norman K. Denzin & Yvonna S. Lincoln: Handbook of Qualitative Research
Chapters 1,
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