Archive for the ‘papers’ category

transcription/translation paper published

April 1st, 2010

My paper about what we can learn from translation studies theory about qualitative research transcription has just been published in the open-access journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research – here is a link to it, and the reference:

Ross, J. (2010). Was that Infinity or Affinity? Applying Insights from Translation Studies to Qualitative Research Transcription. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11/2. http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1357

This is my first sole-authored full paper, so I’m very excited!

book review in RCCS – Making Digital Cultures

November 3rd, 2009

I wrote a review of Martin Hand’s book “Making Digital Cultures” for the Resource Centre for Cyberculture Studies, and this was published (with the author’s response) this month:

http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?BookID=444&ReviewID=643

I really liked this book, and in fact Chapter 1 is now a core reading on the “E-learning and Digital Cultures” course at the University of Edinburgh.

Paper about digital natives

May 6th, 2009

Here’s a paper that Siân Bayne and I wrote for the 2007 Society for Research in Higher Education conference – we are working on revising it in light of all the new literature about digital natives/immigrants/net generation since then, but I think the core arguments are still current, so thought I’d post it up here.

The ‘digital native’ and ‘digital immigrant’: a dangerous opposition