Upcoming posts will be glimpses into my research and writing process
A book I'm reading—which began life as a series of blog posts—gave me the idea to go public with some of my creative process (without giving away the full thesis or argument, of course …). During the course of my doctoral studies, I found that I could...
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Book chapter proposal accepted
Recently got a chapter proposal approved for an edited collection; my chapter will examine some of the data I collected for my dissertation to see how Michel Foucault’s concepts of governmentality and pastoral power may be illustrated in the data. For...
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PhD Completed
Dissertation revisions are complete and accepted, so I am officially all done! Fuller's dissertation defense process includes an outside reader, whose name appears on the dissertation approval sheet but who is not a part of the defense itself. My outsi...
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Differing Perspectives in Social Media Data for This Study
As one might expect, LGBTQIA+ perspectives in my data, and those of their family members and allies, differed sharply from those that one might call “right-leaning.” (I use that term, along with “left-leaning,” as the most suitable way I could find fo...
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Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, as I learned recently from a podcast. It was first observed in 1999 in response to the murder of a Black trans woman in the Boston area (and others before that). It continues to be observed because tra...
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Article published
My article “Mission in polarized public social media interaction: Speaking out against injustice, standing up for truth, or loving your neighbor?” (https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296241261735 ) was published in the journal Missiology: An International Re...
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A recruiting blurb that didn't work
This was the recruiting blurb I used (completely unsuccessfully!) to recruit research participants. Instead, I ended up just using actual social media interactions. I preserve users' confidentiality by excluding all metadata that could lead to them bei...
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Privacy is important
I take people’s privacy seriously. So, even though posts on public pages are open to anyone, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the people who made the posts want “what they have entered online” to “become [a researcher’s] data unbeknownst to them,” as...
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