🔖📓 Read Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels (Disability Studied Quarterly).
📝📓 Fascinated by this ethnographic study on youth’s “pocket writing” practices.
Most fiction I write happens in my pocket now and is mostly private, shared only with very specific people. As a teenager, I did a lot of writing that was tucked away in my backpack, only shared with particular friends.
🔖📓 Read How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward.
I love some of these alternate ways of creating age groupings. I could especially imagine grouping people according to their age at the time of key historical events or technological innovations producing valuable insights.
🔖📓 Can ChatGPT Replace UX Researchers? An Empirical Analysis of Comment Classifications
This is an interesting study with implications for qualitative research beyond UX. Looks like the answer is, “It’s too soon to tell.”
🔖📓 Read Automated transcription and some risks of machine interpretation.
Dr. Daniel Turner does a great job illuminating how large language models work and how we need to think about indigeneity and colonialism when choosing our transcription method.
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No dissertation is worth a lifetime of revision.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
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Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy writing the books to follow.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
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Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing better.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
📓 Read Subjectivity and Reflexivity: An Introduction by Franz Breuer, Katja Mruck & Wolff-Michael Roth (Forum: Qualitative Social Research).
A quick introduction to a pair of special issues. Interested to see how the conversation’s advanced.
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Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
I acknowledge that I live and work on unceded Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, Cheraw, Catawba, Saponi, Occaneechi, and Shakori land. I give respect and reverence to those who came before me. I thank Holisticism for the text of this land acknowledgement.
We must acknowledge that much of what we know of this country today, including its culture, economic growth, and development throughout history and across time, has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting impact that can still be felt and witnessed today. I thank Dr. Terah ‘TJ’ Stewart for the text of this labor acknowledgement.