:: netwoman's blog ::

I am a bad bad (but busy) blogger...

I received an email from a good friend asking if I was ok because I hadn't blogged in such a long time. I checked my blog - I checked my calendar - can someone tell me what happened to the month of March and half of April?

I had noticed that I have been uber-busy, but where did the time go? I just finished teaching two course at the Unviersity of Toronto - one on Cyberculture, and the other Gender and ICT. Both were good courses with good students, and I am still grading and preparing exam material. I am also teaching two courses this spring - one at Brock (Cyberculture) and another at U of T (Gender & Higher Education) - so I am preparing course material. Did I mentioned that I was a teaching assistant for two other courses as well?

This term was also the time where data collection for my dissertation continued, and most of it is done now; surveys n=350 (data just about cleaned) and interviews n=85 (are being transcribed now). My dissertation is part of the Connected Lives Project, SSHRC funded project headed by Prof. Barry Wellman. I am responsible for orchestrating the interview process, organizing participants and interviewers and managing the data and transcribers. It's amazing how time consuming that was/is in addition to interviewing participants.

So now, the analysis of the survey data begins, and the coding of interviews soon enough. Blurky has been helping AnswerGirl and I with the basics, since we are QualitativeDivas and not so stats-saavy. With any luck (and sheer determination), I will be able to write a couple chapters of my dissertation this summer. Job market in the Fall - if you have any leads, let me know!

In other news, I will be presenting some results at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and the American Sociology Association this summer, and with any luck the AoIR in October. Next week I am giving a lecture at KMDI, and will present some prelim findings.

The term has been quite busy, and my Bloglines tells me that I haven't been reading my favourite blogs either. No worries, with a friendly reminder - I am back on the blogging wagon and and back in the proper space-time continuum (daylight savings and all).

posted by Netwoman @ 11:03 PM