- Between weeks 8 and 14, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
- What data did you collect?
- What is your initial impression of the data?
- How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed your thinking about your research project?
- What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?
- What are your next steps?
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I have a few updates to report this go around. One, I am now working on this project solo. My partner had some time conflicts that would prevent them from moving forward with the project so we both decided to work on projects solo.
Now that I am working on this project solo, I have decided to take the presentation of the project in a different dimension. I do not think I will be doing a documentary any longer. I can learn how to piece the clips together, but the amount of time it would take me to do that would be a detriment to me progressing with the project. I have decided to do an interactive website instead. I really took inspiration from a lot of Dubois’s colorful graphs.
I have reached out to David Isreal to see if he could create me a separate WordPress site. So far he has been unresponsive but I am going to try to circle back and email him about it. So far, the survey is sent out and people have been responding. I want a pretty sizable data set though, so I may continue to target specific people that I know will complete the survey. I think after 50 people have responded, I can start to vet people to draw the cognitive maps.
Journey,
You have a good topic here. Public safety (and conceptions of public safety) depend on location. I could not help but think about how places shape who we are. My sense of safety in Chicago (where the uptick in crime results in me more vigilant over my things) differs considerably from the sense of safety in Portland (where even though there is an uptick in crime, too, I don’t worry in the same way). You might find Japonica Brown-Saracino’s book “How Places Make Us” useful here. Even though her empirical case involves queer women, I do think that you could elaborate her framework (or test it even) in the context of how public safety shapes individuals’ place identities.
Keep me posted about the David Israel situation. I think you don’t need a WordPress page to make your website. Students have also been very successful using Google Sites, which is free, seems pretty easy to use and have a lot of intuitive features that could yield an attractive website.
Keep up the great work!