The Professional-Lurker mentions Tales of the field: on writing ethnography (Van Maanen 1998), which I highly recommend for “practicum” reading. I’m presently reading another …

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In addition to the books I read when I first arrived at graduate school I’ve encountered a few other highly useful guides that encourage …

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Yesterday I read a chapter from Gabriella Coleman’s dissertation on the Debian community. (She co-authored a piece with Mako in the M/C Journal …

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In BibTex, how does one represent the paragraph number for a citation in online – non-paginated – articles? Some journals request that citations indicate the paragraph number …

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As someone who is interested in studying and citing email conversations, the opacity of the mailman interface – or the lack of my understanding – is a …

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Clay Shirky notes a cycle of references created by a few people with the effect of promotion: a Wikipedia article for Symphony OS is referenced …

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I am releasing a new zipfile of the fe mindmapping bibliographic tools. As explained in …

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The Professional Lurker notes an article by the FreeRange Librarian which identifies the important role of deleting/removing material of dubious quality. This function, too …

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An example of how frustrating reliance on bad technology can be consider the following. NYU publishes a course catalog for the subsequent semester. However, NYU …

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When it comes to making claims, about reality or anything else really, a number of different stances might be adopted by the speaker:

• Objectivity: the …

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