So, it’s taken a bit with the start of the year, but I’m a doctoral student again. Thank you McGill Sociology! This year’s incoming cohort is perhaps the Department’s largest ever, with 11 new Ph.D. students, as well as 6 new M.A. students. It’s a great group that has bonded remarkably well. I feel very…Continue readingThe next step
So, it’s been an unexpectedly (and unintentionally) long time since my last post. I’ve been working on my M.A. thesis project, which I had intended to document in this blog. I wanted to update where things stand. This site sets out a larger research program, to identify the dimensions that describe our ideologies of childhood.…Continue readingResearch projects and time constraints
Cyber-utopianism was always bunk. The web was never democratic and it has become more or less what techno-realists like myself always expected it to become: a new playground for capitalism. It didn’t happen without resistance and that resistance certainly hasn’t stopped. But from the first moments that networking moved beyond the military and academic research,…Continue readingCultures of the Web Wrap Up
For the purposes of my current research, I approach the web essentially as a corpus. There is no shortage of materials online about … well, anything … but certainly not about children, childhood, parenting and education. Some of those materials are historic documents, the influences which have shaped the understandings of children and childhood we…Continue readingMy goals for studying “Cultures of the Web”