Being Digital

Nicolas Negroponte had a theory that I keep coming back to. In his book, Being Digital he spoke of how society would struggle as the value of things shifted from atoms to bits. In many senses I agree with him. As a musician I’ve watched means of revenue evaporate onto the internet and in the

Follow Your Bliss

SA Bliss was my room mate this past summer in Percé. Wonderful all-around human that she is, she shared valuable insights into how to make multi-disciplinary research make sense and appear valuable to funding bodies. SSHRC funded post-doc You gotta find where you belong Interdisciplinary research in Multi-literacies Shift happens PhD in Ethnography Emic and

Catalogue Your Mind

Research tips from the Librarian      Follow the breadcrumbs in other bibliographies Research is a practice of identifying and navigating the existing conversation or Body of Literature around a topic Place these sources in conversation Primo is a broad-based search engine for the tri-university area shared catalogue Search narrowing tools are available Google Scholar Multidisciplinary Searches

Down The Rabbit Hole:

Felman Lost and Found As a research assignment Jim had us choose a book, investigate the bibliography and choose three citations. Then we were to look into the bibliographies of those three citations and choose three more sources. 1st Book: I chose Taylor’s book because I’m interested in Practice Based research and I think her

Decolonizing Methodology

IICSI post doc and all ’round amazing scholar spoke to our class about her ethnographic research. I’m particularly interested in this mode of research because of my own background in international development, and my experiences being a participant in community based arts programs. I think there are extremely sticky issues around artists and researchers infiltrating

Rules of Engagement

D.L. shared some resources for engagement with Indigenous communities. His insights bring together many lessons learned from years of work with Northern communities. This seminar gave me a chance to reflect on the projects I was involved in through Shadowland. When I was a teenager Shadowland employed students from a res then called Big Cove,

Community Facing Research

A.W. has two MA’s to her credit and brings a hands on understanding of community facing research and knowledge mobilization. In all of our seminars, what I appreciate most about her is a no-frills understanding of academic buzzwords (like the two I just used). These are my notes from our class. There are tons of

Anthropology Reimagined

M. is a top notch presenter. She’s the kind of colleague that inspires everyone else to step up their presentation game. I’m attracted to the simplicity of her previous work (although it probably didn’t feel simple to her at the time of execution. Nonetheless it speaks to me of the kind of project where the

Field Research

J. presented a seminar based on her experience interviewing musicians in Europe on the experimental music scene. As usual I find her way of breaking things down and stating them clearly I real light house of thought. In a sense I did field work for my MA, but it was in a very long and

Time line of interests

This time line of interests is based on a seminar where Daniel Orre shared some of his advice for creative research. He recommended working backwards across a time line to categorize interests as a self-reflective activity that might help you track your core topics in an effort to design projects that will follow through on