Final paper

• Frame: socio, anthro, media studies; not (just) philo, psych

  • Don't just be in your own head; think about evidence and argumentation
  • Learn sociological type of thinking

• Not primary research: interviews, participant-observation

  • If we want to do primary research, talk to TL within the next week to figure out ethical and practical issues
• Rely on secondary data and other people's research, peer-reviewed scholarly material
• Proofreading: read out loud to self
• Topic -> question: Free-form write all questions interested in; are there patterns and buckets?
• Is this question answerable in the abstract and practically?

Discussion

• Case study with ethnographic approach "interesting move... common in media studies"
• Generalizability is not what we should be chasing; generalizability thru a collection of work
• What kind of thinker you are, what kinds of questions you're interested in

• Philippines chapter

  • Style: travel essay, zoomed out to infrastructure studies
  • Different purpose: show impact of this industry on local economy and infra
  • Why is it that this American colony gets explained to us with this treatment?
• What if we had no platforms? What if we reduced the public sphere? What if we introduced more friction into posting content?
• Section 230 and NYT discussion I zoned out of
• "We tend to not do as good a job of community/participatory governance... platform governance yes, government governance"