Problematizing = identifying or defining the problem or curio/curiosity
Questioning =
inventing a question that corresponds to a problem that one is trying to solve
through research (i.e., curio-probing or knowledge-producing tool)
Hypothesizing =
making a statement of expectation that is either subject to being rewritten as
new data is gathered during the research process in medias res (working/responsive) or subject to being affirmed or
denied at the end of the research process (formal)
Predicting/deducing =
“determining the logical consequences of the [formal] hypothesis”
Conceiving/conceptualizing
= finding, inventing, and using analytic concepts,
propositions, and rules in order to direct attention, concentration,
consideration, methods, and analytic thinking in general
– Operationalizing
= defining specific concrete presences or appearances as criteria that obliquely
or directly indicate or embody the presence of something abstract, theoretical,
or “fuzzy”; defining something unobservable and latent in terms of something
observable and manifest
– Planning of
research action (i.e., designing a research procedure) = answering the
following questions…
1 – Where to
look? Where to travel?
2 – What to
look for or pay attention to? What is worth seeing there?
3 – How to
probe, manipulate, or treat a situation in order to make it produce recordable
phenomena? What to do when you get there?
4 – How to
document? How to record phenomena? How to translate phenomena into recordings,
records, or documents?
5 – How to
handle, manipulate, calculate, or analyze documents? How to make sense of
documents or manipulated documents (e.g., statistics)?
Probing & Orientation
– Probing =
making the real “speak” by cutting into, interfering with, or stimulating it
– Orienting =
directing analytic experience locomotively
(i.e., in terms of positioning the sense-organs of the body of the observer) or
cognitively (i.e., in terms of
attention to or focus on particular details)
1 – Searching for a data source
(e.g., searching Google)
2 – Soliciting of data source
(e.g., clicking a Google link)
3 – Acquiring of data source (e.g.,
reading or downloading a webpage, video, audio clip, picture, etc.)
4 – Probing of data source (e.g.,
interview questioning; clicking around [in the case of Internet archives])
Observing =
experiencing the “speech” of the real sensuously by means of one’s body; i.e., Observation
of data source (e.g., viewing, reviewing, listening to, etc. an archive)
Recording =
making the “speech” of the real endure through converting or folding it into
another medium capable of furnishing evidence or information (i.e., a document)
– Documentation of
observation (i.e., writing down or putting into words one’s ideas about
what one sees and notices)
– Documentation of research
actions (i.e., inquiry log)
1 – What appointments were made?
2 – How did others react to the
study?
3 – What surprised you about the
strangeness of the field?
4 – How was the study conceived?
5 – Which person was met?
6 – What source was accessed?
7 – What was the precise date and
time of each research action?
8 – When were these notes taken?
Etc.
Analyzing =
questioning, comparing, inspecting, cataloging, categorizing, describing, and
otherwise thinking about documents, observations, and the relation between the
two
– chronological
organization of documents (i.e., organizing documents according to their
date; organizing documents according to the date of publication of the observed
archive; organizing documents according to the date of the events referred to
in the observed archive)
– categorical
organization documents (i.e., files and subfiles) (i.e., organizing
documents according to various categorical criteria – e.g., Group A vs. group
B; instances of X, instances of Y, and instances of Z; etc.)
Interpreting/Concluding
= making concepts, propositions, and inferences about the analyzed “speech” (i.e.,
observations) and recorded “speech” (i.e., documents) of the real
Reporting =
publishing a final edited draft
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