H809: Week 7 roundup
Ok , I think I've always been about a week behind with the posts but it also looks like people on the course are trying to play catch up too, and I've been pretty busy with PhD work , so I am probably a bit more behind than usual. And yeah, I haven't caught up on the reading for weeks 8 and 9 either... But anyway. Week 7 has been interesting, but before I go on to that I wanted to post a couple of interesting links that have popped up on the forums since last week. The first is to a blog post called " How Online Communities and Flawed Reasoning Sound a Death Knell for Qualitative Methods ". The second is related to last weeks discussions on audiences, and is a link to a New Scientist article on how the media can distort research findings . There was a little more talk about audiences and ethics as well, with it being pointed out that often a researchers write for themselves in order to clarify and work through ideas (i.e. you are your own audience) and that the ...