When Ed Webb mentioned to me that his Communication, Media, & Identity in MENA students would be maintaining blogs and asked me if I wanted to do likewise, I thought that, since I won't be contributing to the class in the same way that they will, I would use this as an opportunity to publicly log some of the research questions posed throughout the semester and the courses we pursued in our attempts to answer them. By exposing this data, perhaps others with similar (or even dissimilar) questions may also benefit.
Will a blog be the best platform for this endeavor? Will there be enough questions to keep it interesting? Will I expand or narrow its scope? These are the questions I'll try to answer in the next few months.
How would we go about settling, or at least advancing, the debate about age & technology - http://seanlyness.livejournal.com/1003.html - since this is an issue on which I have seen many pronouncements based on anecdote (my granny can't work the DVD player) or appeals to common sense (well, it's obvious that older people can't use technology as well as young people). Can you suggest a search strategy?
ReplyDeleteMany sorries--was not expecting comments just yet and, with the scramble to finish grant proposal, was not monitoring the feed. Will post something on this directly.
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