3). Pick one other concept in the book that you feel needs further discussion?
A concept in the book that I feel is worthy of further discussion is Ethnography and Auto-ethnography. I find this topic to be of great importance in the communication field because it gives communication scholars the opportunity to apply critical theory to everyday life types of situations. In my qualitative communication class we all did an ethnography of some sort and then presented it to the class. There were so many everyday activities that had critical theories applied to them and it was eye opening to learn of them. Mine was on a nursing home that is in Gilroy. I looked into traditions in this sort of environment and applied a critical theory. It was very interesting and I think if there was more about it in the book other students may be more encouraged to become involved in Ethnography.
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Hi Caponesmom,
ReplyDeleteI think I would have thoroughly enjoyed further discussion of ethnography and auto-ethnography. Your experience from your qualitative communications class would have not only reiterated these concepts but it would have given us that haven’t taken qualitative communications some insight on what you did in the class. The ability of being able to apply critical theory to everyday life situations is impressive. It would be great if they offered a class in ethnography. I noticed that many of us commented that ethnography was one of the concepts that interested us the most. One last note, I wanted to thank you for responding to my blogs and good luck with your finals. Maybe next year the sharks will do it.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI took qualitative communication last summer and ethnography was the main topic of discussion. While I do agree that qualitative research, ethnography is far more interesting than quantitative research this class should offer a little more insight on the topic. Mainly because research in general is not given enough justice. I took quantitative research this semester and just finished a term project on conducting our own research. The effort that needed to be put into is was unbelievable. I can only imagine how real scholars feel.