Author Archives: Kelly Boudreau

As Christmas approaches, I am faced with the seasonal crowds shoving their way into the already small local EBGames store. I am also challenged with what games to get for who this year (usually this is a neverending list!). I have not made it into the lucky Wii club, and shiver at the price ofContinue reading “Holiday Game Giving”

When we think of bad things that happen to people, our first reaction (if we were to be honest with ourselves) is that “it would never happen to me”. Indeed, we can think of 101 tragedies that always seem to happen to someone we know, or someone we read about etc. etc. My recent ‘itContinue reading “We always say "It would never happen to me…"”

I am sitting here in front of my new 10 foot window watching the snow fall while at my computer. Over the past seven years, I have not had the luxury of large, clear windows. As we settle into our new home, I am inspired to work, write, clean and decorate for the holidays. WhenContinue reading “Settling In”

One of the best commercials I have seen for a game in a while. Every time it comes on, we all go silent and watch the dark visuals slink by to the haunting sounds of this song. (the extended version is pretty good too). When we first heard it, there was a feeling of eerieContinue reading “Gears of War”

As the year comes to an end, I have passed another milestone in my life – home owner. We have purchased a nice, ground floor 7 1/2 apartment with a large (relative for Montreal) yard, built in 1925 with all the original wood work. In all my adult years, living in and around downtown Montreal,Continue reading “Another Milestone”

What started out as a small symposium driven by our interest in the uniqueness of digital research methods (as space & tool). When all was said and done, as mentioned a few posts ago, the symposium was deemed a success on several levels by all those who attended. Each person walked away with a differentContinue reading “Symposium PR”

I just bought Zygmunt Bauman‘s “Identity” book and was reading the introduction by Benedetto Vecchi. I really liked the way Vecchi described Bauman’s method. …the methodology he brings to bear on the subject aims above all to ‘reveal’ the myriad connections between the object under investigation and other manifestations of life in human society. Indeed,Continue reading “Since we were talking methods..and other stuff”

One of the things that struck me during the symposium, is that the majority (although not all) of the research methods we discussed reflected some form of auto-ethnographic work. During a small conversation with Jeffrey Bardzell, I proposed that it was because of the nature of digital research – it was done ‘through a computer’.Continue reading “Is it simply the nature of digital research?”

After hearing the in progress and messy methodological issues of some of my most respected colleagues, I am inspired to get my hands dirty again, eager to move forward with a project I had once felt was methodologically difficult. After Marci Araki’s presentation on Saturday at the T&T symposium, I was reminded of the never-endingContinue reading “Researching my digital self – whose identity is it anyway?”

It is over. The conference – or rather – symposium, that I have been organizing with my colleague, on digital research methods. I would like to post in depth about the presentations and the discussions, but I will do so when I am rested and refreshed. It has been a wonderful marathon. We could notContinue reading “Trials & Tribulations – an ending with a smile”