Major Assumptions:
- many use textual analysis as methodology to pinpoint rhetorical situatin
- textual analysis doesn't allow for outcome that rhetor intends
- triangulation is an important methodological approach
- data triangulation: sampling data from multiple sources
- method triangulation: use various methods to collect data
- rhetorical triangulation akin to feminist and postcritical in that acknowledgment of the researcher is a part of the method process
- digital writing experiences are shaped by human choices
- rhetorical situation gleaned through questions about rhetors intent, reception and context as well as research questions that researcher brings, which cannot be answered through textual analysis
- McKee
- DeWitt
- Rouzie
- Grabill
- Haraway
- Hawisher
- Self
- Denzin
- Takayoshi
- How does the target audience (or secondary) respond to the text
- Is the document well written for the context it was written in?
- How would the document fair in another context?
- Did the rhetor complete the intended outcomes? Why or why not?
- How do users of a digital space articulate their experience, use or purpose of that space?
- How do researchers negotiate reporting methodology? How do they negotiate adapting methodology for research inquiry?
- How does digital writing shift the way we conceive of rhetoric?
Does it count as ethics of caring if we consider rhetor and audience in digital spaces rather than just the text?
This chapter got me thinking about the way that gay bars/clubs have represented themselves online. The Mystic's web page, for instance, is the bar owner's myspace page. Because myspace was set up for personal accounts, knowing the owner makes some of the page's details more comprehensible. In exploring ethnographic research on bars, how would the digital spaces of bars help to bring about the nuance of queer identities?
I have to admit that the idea of taking on digital stuff is...many words. I think the rebellious side of me tends to want to reject the idea of it because its so popular, but the idea of triangulation is appealing. Something to stew on.
1 comment:
Good thoughts here. I guess the main question for your potential project would be whether or not queer literacies/communities are generated online by club pages, etc. This would be another dimension to the data, as you note.
I was interested to see all the issues that came up about in the co-authored article with Will Banks about gay blogging. And also the work by Scott Dewitt on web pages.
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