The Geek Movement

In the previous post I presented a portion of my introduction to the thesis. In this post I reproduce the draft of my methods chapter in it’s entirety. Methodology is a hot topic at SIAT due to the interdisciplinary nature of the program: there is a notion that any “out-of-the-box” method is generally unsuitable to the work that we do. Most methodology at SIAT tends towards the phenomenological, the ethnographic, or the statistical, often combining the three. For my work I’ve had to make a claim for appropriating methods and techniques from the humanities–a tough sell in this social-science and computer-science heavy department. This chapter is perhaps one of the”loftiest” in the thesis, in the sense that it embraces the vocabulary of literary criticism from whence I draw my method.

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