Category: Dissertation
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Analysis, Editing, & the Via Negativa
Time to say a word about the final bonus episode of Becoming Tapestry! In Chapter 4, I finished laying out the basic methodological approach to my project. In short, I employed a form of narrative analysis to outline the documentary as a whole. The unit of analysis in this approach is what various theorists call…
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Sitting around the fire with Team Z
You wouldn’t think it would be that interesting to listen to people making a video over Zoom. Regular readers/listeners and people who have spent time with me will probably chuckle knowingly when I say that I don’t like making unqualified statements, especially about my own work. But I remember very clearly during my defense saying…
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The pilot of a dissertation that might have been
Before there was Becoming Tapestry there was … something else. I had planned on calling the series Faith Adjacent (read idea refresher here) in order to more squarely associate my dissertation podcast as a whole with one of the core intellectual contributions of the project. My tentative plan was to produce a more mixed-genre series…
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Good stories have conflict. Honest research has plenty.
Chapter 3 feels like the episode that got away from me a bit. At least that’s how I’m still hearing it. Even with good strategies for how to say “no” to a particular idea or piece of tape, I think it was natural that one episode before the big finish would become the repository of…
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Scholars Do More than Write
Part of what excites me about audio scholarship is getting to share and engage with other researchers’ ideas in their own words and their own voices. In every academic field in which I’ve studied and contributed (education, ministry/theology, engineering), I’ve always been puzzled by the disconnect between how research actually happens and how we recognize…
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On the power of bonus episodes
When you write your dissertation as a podcast, there isn’t a great way to do footnotes. I do have some footnotes in my manuscript, at my committee’s suggestion. But I didn’t make any effort to register them in the audio episodes. Basically, I decided people who would care about footnotes would be willing to do…