Workshop 3: New forms of ‘writing’
June 2008,
Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor Les Back and Paul Halliday
Writing social research can have the result of flattening the texture of
social experience and also the nuances of social analysis. This workshop
will focus on the practical issues related to developing new multimedia forms
of writing. It will combine classroom teaching and learning with
practice-oriented sessions in the digital studio based in the Centre
for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College.
The session will:
- explore the ways in which digital media offer an opportunity to represent society in motion
- with reference to specific studies, explore tensions between balancing issues of accountability to the subjects and value to users of the research
- address issues of data ownership, management and sharing
- look at how journal articles and monographs can be framed and augmented using CD formats
- explore the practicalities of using .pdf and CD Rom formats to represent research projects
- assess the value of adopting the presentation of ethnographic social research in mixed media