@raulpachecovega
Full Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.
This book that combines set theoretic research (QCA) with case studies by my dear friend Carsten Q. Schneider will be very useful in my Mixed Methods course.
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This book was recommended to me by my fellow human geographers to help me train my PhD students on how to do fieldwork.
Exactly. I have found myself facing this and actively working to reverse these negative effects of social media.
How much do you REALLY read, and how much of those reading materials are online and what's the proportion online/offline?
My hunch is that we are now reading A LOT of very short form material (tweets, skeets), very little in the way of articles, and books, much less in print.
This is worrisome.
I am on basically every social media platform except for Mastodon and it’s funny how everyone complains about civility of discourse on these very online roads, when they are optimized *precisely* for that: anger, negative emotions, confrontation.
I FORCE my algorithms to show me positive stuff.
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
I am so happy my resources are helpful!
Also, I was young and stupid.
I have two majors in my PhD (political science and human geography). I had to demonstrate that I had field and sub-field expertise.
This is so weird to me: some academics may block other people from reading their drafts or citing them as drafts but they will gleefully feed them to an LLM. So their ideas will actually be stolen and not attributed. Totally the opposite from robust and ethical academic practice.
That I had a brutal process with a lot of examinations might explain to you why I don’t ascribe solely to one particular discipline. I had to demonstrate competency in more than one (and in more than one method!)
Chad is not listening to me! 😅
I did comprehensive exams in:
- Comparative politics
- International relations
- Public policy and public administration
- Research methods (mixed)
- Human geography (they conflated my economic geography, urban geography, and environmental geography lists)
This was a brutal process, but I loved it.
I have not had my morning coffee yet, so I take no responsibility for anything I say until about 11:00am Mexico City time.
“Oh but you haven’t tried the latest models!”
Chad, you forgot the basic principle of algorithms: garbage in, garbage out (GIGO).
What’s happening with AI is that excessive technocentrism betrays a profound lack of understanding of the research enterprise and a desire to Taylorize it.
Every word of this post (and the original posters, too).
The point of undertaking a literature review is to engage in the slow, cumulative cognitive process of learning as you read and write. It’s not “processing thousands of references to get a statistical summary of what the LLM was fed”
This reminds me of when I was a PhD candidate during comps (prelims). I was surprised that *I* had to put together all 3 of my reading lists instead of my committee. But then I realized that the act of compiling was an important learning experience.
I am flabbergasted and miffed that none of you threw in a “verklempt”, or an “erstwhile” and there was only one “cantankerous”:
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Should/can/is it advisable for ethnographers to study their own city/region/country?
Discuss.
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This is one of my most cited methods-specific articles and it's #Free2DownloadAndRead
"Writing Field Notes and Using Them to Prompt Scholarly Writing"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In which I argue that we may use field-notes to break free from "writer's block".
Yes, it is true that the other article exists, and I am about to download it, but the metadata is entirely wrong in the previous one.
And this is why you should ALWAYS check when reference managers import metadata (as you can tell, these two articles, if the second one exists, are related in topic but definitely NOT the same):
(I call this process "Cleaning References")
Thank you!
Thanks, Marc!
Sarah E. Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social is an absolute superstar. I'll check the other references too, thank you Sebastian.
(it's late at night in Mexico City and I am trying desperately to finish a paper so apologies for responding until now).
Folks, #ICanHazPDF please?
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
raul(.)pacheco(-)vega(@)flacso(.)edu(.)mx
Yes, I am on the editorial board and I should have access, but I am working late and need it like, ASAP.
I don’t think she is on blue sky but Dr. Christiana Zenner has a ridiculously ample vocabulary and coauthoring with her has improved my own writing.
Books? Free download and read? In this economy?
YES, PLEASE!
