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I am feeling completely overwhelmed by the enormity of my research*; the more I read the more I realise that I have soooo much more to read and understand!
Car troubles and money worries just add to my woes.
Then along comes one of my supervisors:
Lesson 1 Lee: DON’T PANIC!
It always feels immense at the beginning - and you have tackled a high theory field - but you can do it; and on your own terms… you begin in your own frame, and gradually re-position, re-position, till it makes sense… No-one has it all at the outset.
Phew! Feeling slightly better already…
* This research will look at the ‘new rules’ of Business conduct and communication within 3D virtual environments. It will consider ‘why’ these new rules exist, what rules they replace and what differences there are between conducting business in the traditional, ‘real’ world and the new, virtual world.
It will seek to map out, via ethnographic methodology, the new ‘virtual’ culture that business must understand if it wishes to engage with it successfully. It will seek to understand that new culture from various perspectives: psychological (including game theory, identity theory and social cognition), sociological (particularly for informing the enthomethodological approach used), organizational theory and communications theory. Along the way it will draw into itself recent findings from the field of Virtuality.
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