Why should we as researchers go on-line with this project?
Going on-line:
– force us to analyze and tell stories from the start
– force us to visualize research (moving pictures, still pictures, sounds and words)
– trigger our analytical imagination
– could attract other analysts and storytellers that help us advance the project
– could attract possible participants that we normally don’t find
– could make the research process more transparent
– might be an effectful way of communicating research
– might enhance the dialogue between reserach and society
Some challenges going on-line are:
– how to tell good stories (escaping academic jargon)
– how to plot and visualize the organizing of rocks with moving pictures, still pictures, sounds and words
– how to tell a good story about the research process
– making technology work