Archive for the ‘university’ Category

Undergraduate Essays Due Next Week..

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The one I got: Got sent a copy of an essay in a strange file format, accompanied with, "This essay is due next week. Can you read it, make corrections and have it back to me next week?" When I explained in class today that I wouldn't be able to do ...

Managing Identities: Part 2 (Netvibes)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The smallworlds project aims to introduce emerging online research tools, such as Twitter and Delicious, at a grassroots level to early stage laboratory students at the University of Leicester. For many of the students that we met at the introductory sessions last week, this was their first encounter with these sites - and ...

And so it begins…

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I've finally finished and submitted my MA dissertation (woo, yay!) recently started working as part of the Small Worlds project (which is associated with the University of Leicester) - AJ Cann launched the project yesterday - and I think his short seesmic video sums up the gist of the project ...

Writing an MA dissertation. Part one.

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Social Networking and Identity: A case study investigating the relationship between social networking software and the online and offline identity constructions of University of Leicester students. So, today is the day I start writing - no more mucking around, it works out I have 7 weeks to complete the whole thing ...

Super Duper MA Dissertastical!

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I've started working on my dissertation now (I've always been working on it, but this is me actually commiting that statement to writing.) So, working title - as follows: Social Networking and Identity: A case study investigating the relationship between social networking software and the online and offline identity constructions of University ...