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Trust me… I’m a Doctor
On May 17th, I successfully defended my thesis, Social Presence in the Asynchronous Online Classroom: The Asynchronous Online Video Conversation, thus becoming Dr. Time H. Barrow.
Edited Dissertation Draft Submitted
edits: done words: 55,555 pages: 233 chaps: 5 sent: 1:11am here’s to being defensible
Chapter 1
I’m not likely to post the whole dissertation here on the blog, since that invites far too many evil plans, deeds, and malcontent. However, here is Chapter 1, which provides a solid introduction and overview of my dissertation study.
New Timeline
I added a tentative dissertation completion timeline to this blog. While this is, in many ways, a rather aggressive schedule, I acknowledge that it will remain a living document up until the end in that I will continue to amend the timeline as proposed dates change
Proposal Submitted
Four weeks (and one day) after meeting with my committee post-quals, I completed and submitted a full dissertation proposal first draft (a respectable 39 pages) at about 2am on 01.11.11. This is the next step in the milestone requirements for my degree. On 01.21.11, I passed the proposal stage with committee feedback consisting of (in…
Passed Qualifying Exams!
Qualifying Exam: 3 questions answered in 4 days, resulting in: 38 pages, 161 paragraphs, 9627 words
Direct Social Observation
Schutz, Alfred. (1967). The Phenomenology of the Social World. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. An aspect of Schutz’ discussion of face-to-face (FtF) communication and the structure of the social world that is highly relevant to the online video conversation (OVC) is that of the direct social observation….
Immediacy and the We-Relationship
Schutz, Alfred. (1967). The Phenomenology of the Social World. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. Continuing the discussion of We-relationships from the last post, Schutz states that We-relationships can have many differences based on the way in which a participant is experienced by the other participant(s), such as…
The Face-to-Face Situation and the Thou-Orientation
Schutz, Alfred. (1967). The Phenomenology of the Social World. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. The Face-to-Face Situation and the Thou-Orientation In this section, Schutz breaks down what really defines and constitutes the Face-to-Face (FtF) interaction as well as the thou-orientation and the we-relationship. This 1967 text could…
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design
Creswell, John W. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design : Choosing among Five Traditions. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1998. For my dissertation study, I chose to use a qualitative method (or series of methods), due to its multi-method focus, interpretive approach, and purpose. Qualitative studies analyze and interpret observations to discover meanings and patterns of…