new data

Today I will be making the first recordings for my cyberspace project. I've been playing around with my new digital camcorder and I think I now have the necessary skills to pull it off. I will need to check things carefully of course because there will be no going back to making other recordings should I "slip up". the camera is very easy to use ONCE YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT! So, I spent several hours yesterday taking brief recordings and then showing them back. I think I will try to get two different recordings in the home i will visit today. I"ll do a short ten minute recording, take a break (as much as for the participants as for myself), and then record a different (but usual activity). I am intending to record the everyday activity or natural occurence, however, my presence and recording equipment make it somewhat more than that.

It still seems odd not to be thinking about independent writing and the transcript that has driven my work since 2001. I have often said I could analyse that transcript for the rest of my working life, and that is still true. Of course, I don't have that luxury. Besides, I think the foray into the home and computer activity will be refreshing for my work. i noticed that the 2009 IPrA conference website is available and I think i will submit an abstract based on my At Home in Cyberspace Project. On the site it suggests that posters are useful at this conference, and posters are put up for an entire day. So, I might try to get a poster accepted. I remember the IprA conference in Rheims in 2000 -Carolyn Baker and Greer Johnson had a poster on Greer's work with married couples and courtship.