Proposing to Learn and Know

As I chug through my research trying yet again to write an extremely long document with enormous difficulty, I figure I might as well announce this as a form of posterity.

I’m going to be presenting my honours research proposal at SFU on Tuesday, December 4th in the Communication Conference Room, K8652, at SFU Burnaby (yes, that K means we’re in the former Kinesiology building. Don’t ask). I’m on at a good time – high noon! So if you happen to be up on the hill, please feel free to drop by. I’ll be up from 12:00 – 12:20. I’m in as Karen Fung, “Social Change, New Media and Creative Urban Communities: A Case Study of Toronto Transit Camp”, supervised by Richard Smith & Martin Laba. I itch to change the title, but it’s quaintly descriptive as it is right now.

I have research questions and a methodology and it will be splendid to watch me talk rapidly and answer questions about an event that inspired me to do what I have been doing. Or at least I hope it will be. And hey, if nothing else, come for the light refreshments and the mountain air. We don’t have the view we used to (that RCB patio was hawt), but we’re not too far from it. Presentations start at 10 o’clock, and unfortunately they’re not listed on the website, but they all have fascinating titles (which I bet the other presenters also long to change).

Judging by my rudimentary grasp of the names of the people on the program, the gender gap in Communication is well-represented in the presentations. Perhaps a little too well. (Anecdotally, we’re supposedly 60-40 for the ladies. Hence the jokes about Engineering students dating Communication students.)

Come to think of it, I’ll probably post some sort of summary or overview of the proposal here once I have the kinks ironed out, as well as the feedback I get from this presentation. It will serve as a nice complement as I will undoubtedly start to do some TransitCamp unpacking and lessons learned on the whole thing.