I'm interested in how different people interact online - how they make sense of a set of tools and their relationship with them and with other people. I'm interested in why and how they act - or don't. How they conceive a space, how they see themselves as actors and how they perceive others as they interact with them. How a group can achieve a shared understanding of an online space.
Based on this, I'm concentrating on using 'sensemaking' as the central idea for my research project. The project is situated in a social networking site for AFTRS, where I work as a learning technologist. I'm the administrator of the site. The project has passed ethics approval and I am now refining concepts and working on appropriate questions and selecting subjects.
I'll attach my research proposal, though it is written with my previous subject's, Designing a Research Project, aims in mind. It is not written wholly from the perspective of an ethnography, which is the basic approach I'll be using, instead taking a rather more positivist tone than it probably should. However, it generally lays out my project and approach. On talking with Lina, I'm not focusing on social presence or community of practice.
Sensemaking, identity and knowledge creation are what I'm concentrating on.
Research Proposal (if you're interested!)
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