I know the importance of organization during any project. Home renovations, cooking a lamb roast, going to a concert, conducting fieldwork for research. It will go a lot more smoothly (and be more useful) if you plan, conduct and keep it organized as you go.
I didn’t do this very well during my fieldwork. I was [...]

Lining up for the iPhone on release day was akin to lining up for Harry Potter. There was a sense of anxiety-anticipation in the line and an awful lot of people who you’d expect to see immortalised in The Joy of Tech Comic. Myself included.
I knew that the iPhone would become an essential tool in [...]

The temptation with a blog is to write posts that other people have already blogged about. In writing about my discoveries during my time at Murdoch, it’s tempting to do a bit of retrospective and to talk about all of the things I’ve found over the past year and a half. But many others have [...]

I have been investigating different types of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) because I need a way of both creating an Ethnographic Hypermedia Environment (EHE) and also managing the data I will create and collect. I am unsure as yet whether one package will be adequate for data collation and analysis [...]