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August 22, 2006
Preparing for London
Quickly making notes of all the books I carried out from the library in June. I'm gradually starting to understand that in two weeks I'll be in London already. For those to whom this is news, I'll spend the autumn term at LSE writing my thesis, instructed by Don Slater who has worked, among other things, on new media and digital home photography.
The transition from transcribing to analysing the empirical material has proven to be more challenging than I thought. It's such a different mode of work: from physical hands-on, i.e. typing frantically, to a vague stage of staring at the interview prints, photos, drawings, and questionnaires, reading methodology books, and waiting for these to collide in your brain, producing the perfect conceptual framework for this study. Spending Finland's hottest and driest summer in 100 years surrounded by options for summer cottaging and sailing has not helped. Luckily, Sister Docent recommended an article with practical guidelines for the process and it should arrive in the mail today. Meanwhile, I'm escaping to the chores of arranging a longish-term stay abroad: faxing papers here and there and finding Muumi-souvenirs to bring over (once again).
Posted by hrantavu at 01:48 PM