Category: research
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So, what DOES all this tweeting really mean? Results from ethnographic work on Twitter use and advanced cancer
If you missed the news, yesterday I successfully defended my thesis. I owe thanks to a million different people, but I specifically want to acknowledge four people who made this project what it has become. First and foremost, Alicia Merchant who’s Twitter use inspired my whole thesis. I hope this research honours your legacy. Colleen Young, Michelle Hamilton-Page,…
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It’s official! I finished grad school!
Today I am officially done grad school. After my defense my thesis was accepted as is – a rare honour for my program – and all i have left to do is submit the paperwork and then graduate in November! It’s been a looooong process, but I am so proud of the work I did.…
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Top 10 works that shaped my thesis research
Doing a master’s degree involves a heck-load of reading. But there were 10 works in particular that really shaped my research and I wanted to publicly thank each of these authors for providing me with such thought-provoking pieces.
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making sense of writing books and agreeing to be studied
I’ve got into the homestretch of my masters thesis research, studying Twitter use among people living with advanced, metastatic, chronic, terminal, or incurable cancer. There are still some analyses left to do, but I’ve started to write (and write, and write, and write some more) as a way to begin making sense of it all.…
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