Archives for Fieldnotes
My Friend’s Pants-Making
My friend likes to sew pants. He’s just a beginner, but he’s made at least one functional pair so far. Started with big fabric Works on the...
Giving a Cat Medication
I chose to interview a family member about the care of a cat with a congenital heart defect, and how they have been sucked into the strange world of...
Fieldnotes: Building a desk
July 3rd, 2020 Building a desk | Zoom on desktop Observations Thoughts Background: Carpeted floor, tall leafy plant behind him, lamp on the right side, door to balcony in...
Fieldnotes: How Swara Stays Swole
Background Swara is a 20-year-old college student from New York. We talked through a Zoom videocall using laptop computers. She walked me through her typical routine for going on...
Austin’s Nighttime Routine
Field Note Practicum – Week #2 ...
Another Evening in Uganda – Alie Goldblatt
^^please double click and zoom-in to read my field-notes. Summary: I really enjoyed this field-notes practicum overall. By the scheduled time of our interview, my original research subject was...
Fieldnotes: Tweets as Social Objects
I talked to my friend Deimy—she and her boyfriend have been my roommates for the past two years. She regularly uses Twitter, primarily following leftist commentary and humor accounts,...
A Breakfast Quesadilla
Virtual field notes Sorry this is in Word! I couldn’t get the formatting to work on the blog....
Fieldnotes – Frances Makes a Smoothie
For my fieldnotes practice, I decided to interview my younger sister over Google Duo while she made a smoothie, a not infrequent activity in our family home. Keeping in...
Geoguessr Virtual Training
Background: My brother-in-law, Ben, has discovered a new online hobby. Ben has always been good at sharing online hobbies with my family and his enthusiasm is easily contagious. When...