An item on Radio National’s Book Program introduced me to Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz’s Australian Encounters. It is a “little book of literary trivia about chance meetings, and some influential ones too, between writers, politicians, artists, singers and activists.” Subjects in the book include Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Donald Bradman and Boris Karloff, [...]
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Coincidence, Serendipity and Synchronicity
Posted in Australia, Communication, Ethnography, Networks, Wayfinding, Writing, tagged Allen Foster, Australian Encounters, Blue Raincoat, Book Show, Caruba, Chance, Chris Grosz, Coincidence, Destiny, Dimitris Papazimouris, Fate, Fortune, Happenchance, Horace Walpole, Kamery T, Leonard Cohen, Marianne, Middletown, Nigel Ford, Radio National, Robert and Helen Lynd, serendipity, Seth Baker, Shane Maloney, Synchronicity, The Monthly, UCNISS on 3 December, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gaining Access
Posted in Communication, Ethnography, Writing, tagged Acees as Process, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Carla Reeves, Carolyn Wanat, Difficult-to-reach, Gaining Access, Gatekeepers, John Caserta, Late Night Live, Paula Maycock, Phillip Adams, Qualitative Research, Radio National, RG Burgess, Robert Brogdan, Taryn Simon, TED Talk, UCNISS on 16 November, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction Last week (9 November) Taryn Simon was a guest of Phillip Adam’s on Radio National’s Late Night Live program. The basis for the interview was Taryn’s project An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. It was a fascinating interview that encouraged me to think about access to research sites and to explore her [...]
Becoming Social
Posted in Communication, Ethnography, tagged Bacon Flowchart, Deborah Rhode, Ethnomethodology, Geekologie, Gordian Fulde, Harold Garfinkel, Life Matters, Mireille Guilano, Miss Fipi Lele, Radio National, Richard Aedy, Synesthesia, UCNISS on 26 August, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This post started with someone sharing this flow diagram with me: I have not eaten bacon for twenty years but the diagram made complete sense to me … apart from not having a dog called Dante (what a great name for a dog). In terms of being social: Someone sent the flow chart to me [...]
Writing Lives, Telling Stories
Posted in Communication, Ethnography, Writing, tagged Asne Seierstad, Being Around, Christina Asquith, Christina Lamb, Christina Patterson, Dvortygirl, Ethics, Ethnography, Fragile Territories, New Journalism, Oolong, Radio National, Ramona Koval, research, Sisters in War, Small Wars Permitting, the Book Show, The Bookseller of Kabul, UCNISS on 16 August, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the highlights of last week for me was the Radio National Book Show program (12 August) that discussed Asne Seierstad’s The Bookseller of Kabul. Ramona Koval discussed writing about life in fragile territories with Christina Asquith and Christina Lamb. The discussion raised very important issues about journalism, new fiction and ethical behaviour. Asne [...]
Clowns and Krumpers
Posted in Communication, Ethnography, Performance, Play, tagged Battle Zone, Cage, Chaz Wags, clowning, community of practice, David Lachapelle, Digital Habitats, krump, krumping, Rize, Rob Helfman, South Central, stewardship, Tommy the Clown, UCNISS on 12 January, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday evening the ABC in Australia showed David LaChapelle‘s film Rize (2005). The film has been shown previously on ABC in Australia and was reviewed by Margaret Pomeranz and Triple J in 2005. Rize introduced me to clowning and krumping as alternatives to membership in gangs. A review of Rize gives some background about the [...]
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