Hi,
I see that the last post was making reference to John Urry's work and his
Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe). Thought I would just let everyone
know that not only am I new to the list - hi everyone! - but I'm running a
mobilities blog for CeMoRe at Lancaster University called: 'New
Mobilities' - see http://cemore.blogspot.com/ -
if anyone has any comments and/or contributions I would be most grateful - I
have already posted some items I recently came across on this list.
Thanks,
Kingsley
Kingsley Dennis
Sociology Dept.,
County South College,
Lancaster University
LA1 4YD
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/prospective/phd/students/dennis.htm
01524 594148
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1. Re: what's in a name
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Subject: Re: what's in a name
From: Ben Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:09:58 +0100
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hi,
we could take some lessons from John Urry's thinking in this area
see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/cemore/cemorehome.htm and also
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17450101.asp
Two tricks I have painfully learnt:
- To get social science funding the technology usually has to
disappear. So I may claim to be studying patterns of residential
mobility and social communication. it just happens that I am using
mobiles as a) a tracking technology and b) an object of study as a
mediator of these practices. But I publish in the context of social
theory.
- To get 'technology' funding the social science needs to disappear
(somewhat). So I am studying emergent practices that influence the
design of mobile technologies (interfaces, devices, services,
architectures) in a kind of co-evolutionary process. That fact that I
may be using techniques from the social sciences with their embedded
theoretical assumptions/positions is only relevant if I try to
publish the results in a social science journal.
i.e. spin it. Use labels as needed for your purposes (as Christian
said).
Where this strategy falters is when a University tries to figure out
what faculty/dept/school we belong to and, in the case of the UK,
where our results are counted for 'research measurement' purposes. I
try not to worry about that too much.
B
On 16 Jul 2005, at 03:16, Barry Wellman wrote:
Good discussion, focusing the brain, on what we should call ourselves.
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