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Thinking about pilot study, cert exam, and dissertation topic . . .

. . . and things seem to be a lot clearer than two weeks ago (professor Kinzer would be proud of me!). I'm currently re-reading professor AnaLouise Keating's piece "(De)Centering the Margins? Identity Politics and Tactical (Re)Naming" while thinking about the post I wrote last week on Melissa Harris-Perry and Joan Walsh, WHILE thinking about a possible pilot study that I may want to conduct based on the curriculum I helped design with Beyond The Bricks for young 'Black' men, WHILE thinking about the impending certification exam I'm going to take in February as part of the doctoral candidacy process, WHILE thinking that I may, in fact, be well on my way to deciding upon a dissertatation topic.

The topic, you ask? Something that has to do with the following (in connection, no particular order):

21st century media literacy curriculum design in non-traditional learning environments

Intersectionality/Reductivism

Making visible outliers in 'race' and 'gender'-based studies/methodology

 

I am a threshold woman of color tactically (re)naming my place in this world. How boutchu?

< Shout out to Dr. Keating >

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Digital Ethnography: Cool Ass Sh*t

Michael Wesch's research is like E = mc2 of ethnography. This video give me chills everytime I watch it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU&w=480&h=390]

"Creating characters gave me an escape. It allowed me to be silly. It allowed me to act how I wanted to feel. It became a form of therapy; a coping mechanism. And after awhile it brought fun back to YouTube for me. You accepted my characters, even embraced them. And by doing so, you opened your arms to me. You allowed me to continue to have the escape I still need from the hard times while giving me the chance to talk about what I had gone through. And I'm eternally grateful to you all. Some people have said that the video that we make on YouTube should be created in hopes to change the world. I've made mine to help me live in it. And whether I make a hundred more or a thousand more, I will know forever that this website, that this community, helped bring me life again. And there's something really special in that". - bnessel1973

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-QALaXlFc&w=640&h=390]

#coolshit #geeksunite #digitalethnography #YouTube

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