Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-1-theory-of-knowledge-and-theory.html
Have you reflected on the definition of truth? who has the right to define what is truthful or not ? If I recall correctly Socrates argued that all of mans conclusions and assumptions is what he called a subjective truth, if it isn't based on any empirical evidence. and further discussed what impact truth shall have on our society, since it is so vaguely interpreted and defined.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-1-theory-of-knowledge-and-theory.html
Have you reflected on the point of what we expect to percieve? i thought about this while reading your thoughts on Theaetetus, and I know there is an Youtube video of one of the worlds now most famous violinists, standing in a subway plattform in New York (I think it was) and playing, and people barely stoped to listen. this is the violinist whos concert tickets cost thousand of dollar. The report from this was that they judged people to be uneducated since they didn´t appreciate his music in the subway. I interpret this as that people didn't expect to hear that kind of beauty, and judged him to be a regular streetmusician. and then it came down to what we expect to perceive.
Theme 1 post:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/09/reflection-theory-of-knowledge-and.html
I think one aspect we forgot to discuss at the seminar (the baby discussion) was the aspects of instincts. The human baby is the least sophisticated newborn among all newborn mammals, and thereby human babies have to learn the fundamental things long before it can start to acquire knowledge. things like, walking, talking and such basic skills takes months for a newborn to understand and use. and I think the concept of instincts have followed man through her evolution,some of us are today fully grown, but still use these instincts, and acquire new instincts.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-1-theory-of-knowledge-and-theory_12.html
Well, isn't our pure reason subconsciously influenced by our experiences? I get the concept of A priori judgements, but I don't concur on all of it. Man is influenced of all her perceptions, small and large, all the time, either you want it or not.
Theme 2 pre:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-2-critical-media-studies_12.html
have you reflected on that an aura may be entirely subjective? I interpreted the definition of an aura as how something affects us, what impressions we get when interacting with an object, or a concept? If we for example try to conclude what the aura of the colour orange represents to two different groups of people, christians see orange as the color of gluttony, where orange is the national colour of the Netherlands and represents their independence and freedom.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-2-critical-media-studies.html
I define aura as what an object radiates. this can be both in terms of heat, or shadows, or something that it actually radiates. Then we have the subjective aura, the subjective way an object or a phenomena influence man. For example, if you see fire, I may interpret it as warmth, and light, while another person may associate fire with destruction or ruin.
Theme 2 post:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/09/reflection-critical-media-studies.html
Interesting reflection on the definition of Nominalism. I interpreted Nominalism as a way of thinking which encourages man to believe in the real world, and break free from the fantasy world of myth. That man in some way rather shall use pure reason and science as the base, and not a superstition in form of myth.
Pontus Ter Vehn
http://dm2572pontustv.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-2-critical-media-studies-part-2.html
I really like your thought that "Causing people to suppress their revolutionary thoughts is a revolutionary potential in itself" which I agree with. its like filling up a cup, if the government always pour more and more liquid into it (revolutionary potential) it will at one point pour over, which can have dire consequences in the end. The arabic spring is one example of this, where one people have been oppressed for a long time, and finally they take the matter in their own hand, and also use the power of internet and social media to work against their oppressors.
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-2-critical-media-studies_12.html
have you reflected on that an aura may be entirely subjective? I interpreted the definition of an aura as how something affects us, what impressions we get when interacting with an object, or a concept? If we for example try to conclude what the aura of the colour orange represents to two different groups of people, christians see orange as the color of gluttony, where orange is the national colour of the Netherlands and represents their independence and freedom.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-2-critical-media-studies.html
I define aura as what an object radiates. this can be both in terms of heat, or shadows, or something that it actually radiates. Then we have the subjective aura, the subjective way an object or a phenomena influence man. For example, if you see fire, I may interpret it as warmth, and light, while another person may associate fire with destruction or ruin.
Theme 2 post:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/09/reflection-critical-media-studies.html
Interesting reflection on the definition of Nominalism. I interpreted Nominalism as a way of thinking which encourages man to believe in the real world, and break free from the fantasy world of myth. That man in some way rather shall use pure reason and science as the base, and not a superstition in form of myth.
Pontus Ter Vehn
http://dm2572pontustv.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-2-critical-media-studies-part-2.html
I really like your thought that "Causing people to suppress their revolutionary thoughts is a revolutionary potential in itself" which I agree with. its like filling up a cup, if the government always pour more and more liquid into it (revolutionary potential) it will at one point pour over, which can have dire consequences in the end. The arabic spring is one example of this, where one people have been oppressed for a long time, and finally they take the matter in their own hand, and also use the power of internet and social media to work against their oppressors.
Theme 3 pre:
Gabriella Sanchez karlsson
http://dm2572gsk.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-3-research-and-theory.html
according to your definition of theory, during our seminaar we came to one conclusion of what the definition may be. A theory should explain why data were observed or are expected to be observed, that the theory are often just based on a hunch or a feeling, and when you start to base the theory on logical and empirical data, it become a hypothesis. A hypothesis is the bridge between a theory and empirical data, that separated these three are somewhat useless, but combined can be pretty effective.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-3-research-and-theory.html
During my seminar my group came up with a pretty solid definition of theory, hypothesis and empirical data, at least we thought it was. The definition is that neither of the three is superly useful when standing alone, but if you combine the three you get a solid chain of understanding. the hypothesis creates a link between the theory and the empirical data studied.Theory: Emphasizes the behaviour of causal relationships and thereby identifying what happens before and after an event. A theory explains why empirical data were observed or are expected to be observed. Empirical data: describes which empirical patterns were observed. Hypotheses: Should explain what is expected to occur before observing empirical data and shall not contain logical arguments about why empirical data are expected to be correct
Theme 3 post:
Viktor Leandersson
http://evilmadscientists.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-3-postreflections-research-and.html
Interesting definition of theory, and theory about theories. Isn't a theory at first constructed based on your knowledge of the area? few people can create a theory out from nothing, and you will always have some subconscious knowledge that will influence your theory. Your thought on the difference between theory and knowledge is interesting and I think that the thing here is that you use your knowledge not as a direct basis to your theory, but rather some kind of references point which you can use to relate to and construct your theory.
Pontus Ter Vehn
http://dm2572pontustv.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-3-research-and-theory-part-2.html
Conservatism can be one factor that holds scientific evolution back. and since man is generaly afraid of changes and the unknown, this is something that we, as engineers and users of science have to take in notion while working. That people will always question our path and why we are doing things, since they don´t know themselves.
Gabriella Sanchez karlsson
http://dm2572gsk.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-3-research-and-theory.html
according to your definition of theory, during our seminaar we came to one conclusion of what the definition may be. A theory should explain why data were observed or are expected to be observed, that the theory are often just based on a hunch or a feeling, and when you start to base the theory on logical and empirical data, it become a hypothesis. A hypothesis is the bridge between a theory and empirical data, that separated these three are somewhat useless, but combined can be pretty effective.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-3-research-and-theory.html
During my seminar my group came up with a pretty solid definition of theory, hypothesis and empirical data, at least we thought it was. The definition is that neither of the three is superly useful when standing alone, but if you combine the three you get a solid chain of understanding. the hypothesis creates a link between the theory and the empirical data studied.Theory: Emphasizes the behaviour of causal relationships and thereby identifying what happens before and after an event. A theory explains why empirical data were observed or are expected to be observed. Empirical data: describes which empirical patterns were observed. Hypotheses: Should explain what is expected to occur before observing empirical data and shall not contain logical arguments about why empirical data are expected to be correct
Theme 3 post:
Viktor Leandersson
http://evilmadscientists.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-3-postreflections-research-and.html
Interesting definition of theory, and theory about theories. Isn't a theory at first constructed based on your knowledge of the area? few people can create a theory out from nothing, and you will always have some subconscious knowledge that will influence your theory. Your thought on the difference between theory and knowledge is interesting and I think that the thing here is that you use your knowledge not as a direct basis to your theory, but rather some kind of references point which you can use to relate to and construct your theory.
Pontus Ter Vehn
http://dm2572pontustv.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-3-research-and-theory-part-2.html
Conservatism can be one factor that holds scientific evolution back. and since man is generaly afraid of changes and the unknown, this is something that we, as engineers and users of science have to take in notion while working. That people will always question our path and why we are doing things, since they don´t know themselves.
Theme 4 pre:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-4-quantitative-research.html
I concur with you on the point that taking data from already asked questions is wrong due to designed to another purpose. However, one way to use this kind of data is either to use as another opinion and refer to it as a source of information as long as you explain that it is data from a survey with another purpose. But you shouldn't refer to it as your primary source, only a source to fill in blanks and similar.
Gabriella Sanchez karlsson
http://dm2572gsk.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-4-quantitative-research.html
One benefit of quantitative methods are the amount of raw data acquired of different questions within the same field. raw data that may or may not be independent of one another gives you the possibility to draw different conclusions through statistical analyzes, checking for correlations and behaviour within. In your paper it can be that we can see if there's any correlation between students from different schools, if their demographic positioning affects the results, or similar investigations.
Theme 4 post:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/10/reflections-quantitative-research.html
Good reflection, After these weeks I got a better insight in the combination between quantitative and qualitative methods when i comes to a scientific research. That qualitative methods can contemplate the quantitative results and give you a better understanding of you findings.
Pontus Ter Vehn
http://dm2572pontustv.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-4-quantitative-research-part-2.html
I really did enjoy Olles seminar, since interaction with students and the competition spurs students to participate. And when it comes to quantitative methods, they are hard to construct, especially to design them in an effective way, so you can maximize you findings and be able to see correlations and similarities between different groups of data. I think that Olle gave us a pretty good picture on how to do this, with his Do's and Don'ts as you mentioned.
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-4-quantitative-research.html
I concur with you on the point that taking data from already asked questions is wrong due to designed to another purpose. However, one way to use this kind of data is either to use as another opinion and refer to it as a source of information as long as you explain that it is data from a survey with another purpose. But you shouldn't refer to it as your primary source, only a source to fill in blanks and similar.
Gabriella Sanchez karlsson
http://dm2572gsk.blogspot.se/2014/09/theme-4-quantitative-research.html
One benefit of quantitative methods are the amount of raw data acquired of different questions within the same field. raw data that may or may not be independent of one another gives you the possibility to draw different conclusions through statistical analyzes, checking for correlations and behaviour within. In your paper it can be that we can see if there's any correlation between students from different schools, if their demographic positioning affects the results, or similar investigations.
Theme 4 post:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/10/reflections-quantitative-research.html
Good reflection, After these weeks I got a better insight in the combination between quantitative and qualitative methods when i comes to a scientific research. That qualitative methods can contemplate the quantitative results and give you a better understanding of you findings.
Pontus Ter Vehn
http://dm2572pontustv.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-4-quantitative-research-part-2.html
I really did enjoy Olles seminar, since interaction with students and the competition spurs students to participate. And when it comes to quantitative methods, they are hard to construct, especially to design them in an effective way, so you can maximize you findings and be able to see correlations and similarities between different groups of data. I think that Olle gave us a pretty good picture on how to do this, with his Do's and Don'ts as you mentioned.
Theme 5 pre:
Gabriella Sanches Karlsson
http://dm2572gsk.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-5-design-research.html
I would argue that you should perform your qualitative method based upon your Quantitative findings (in most cases) since Quantitative methods confirm your hypothesis, and a qualitative study based upon this information can confirm why or why not your hypothesis are correct or not.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-5-design-research.html
You interpret the contemplation between quantitative and qualitative methods in the same way as I do. Qualitative methods are often used to verify why something occurred, something that are proven to occur by the quantitative analysis. The problem here can be that you still have to do a somewhat extensive qualitative analysis, depending on the amount of participants in your quantitative research. for example, if you make a survey with over 10.000 participants, you can't (in my opinion) make your qualitative analysis of less than 50 of these since the qualitative supply must still be able to represent your quantitative supply of participants.
Theme 5 post:
Åsa Linder
http://dm2572aslind.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-5-reflection.html
I've also had a hard time separating quantitative methods and qualitative, but through this course i have found a way that I can separate them. Quantitative methods is a wide method,and by wide I mean that you have a lot of test subjects, that all of them have to answer the same question which later can be transcribed into raw data that can be examined. Quantitative methods only answers IF you are correct. Qualitative methods are kind of the opposite, you have a small number of subjects, which you often interview and adapt you questions through the process. The qualitative methods can be applied to you quantitative finding s to try and find WHY your quantitative findings were correct or not. The definition above is mainly for quantitative/qualitative surveys, but their internal theory can be applied to all kinds of usage of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Jenny Bern
http://jennybern.blogspot.se/2014/10/reflection-of-week-5.html
I agree with you that this weeks papers that we read were more of a typical media technology paper, and I thought that Haibos lecture were the most interesting of the two. Mainly because he talked about the general use and process of design research and referring to his own research as examples, while Eva-Lotta mainly talked about her specific research.
Gabriella Sanches Karlsson
http://dm2572gsk.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-5-design-research.html
I would argue that you should perform your qualitative method based upon your Quantitative findings (in most cases) since Quantitative methods confirm your hypothesis, and a qualitative study based upon this information can confirm why or why not your hypothesis are correct or not.
Terese Skoog
http://dm2572tereseskoog.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-5-design-research.html
You interpret the contemplation between quantitative and qualitative methods in the same way as I do. Qualitative methods are often used to verify why something occurred, something that are proven to occur by the quantitative analysis. The problem here can be that you still have to do a somewhat extensive qualitative analysis, depending on the amount of participants in your quantitative research. for example, if you make a survey with over 10.000 participants, you can't (in my opinion) make your qualitative analysis of less than 50 of these since the qualitative supply must still be able to represent your quantitative supply of participants.
Theme 5 post:
Åsa Linder
http://dm2572aslind.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-5-reflection.html
I've also had a hard time separating quantitative methods and qualitative, but through this course i have found a way that I can separate them. Quantitative methods is a wide method,and by wide I mean that you have a lot of test subjects, that all of them have to answer the same question which later can be transcribed into raw data that can be examined. Quantitative methods only answers IF you are correct. Qualitative methods are kind of the opposite, you have a small number of subjects, which you often interview and adapt you questions through the process. The qualitative methods can be applied to you quantitative finding s to try and find WHY your quantitative findings were correct or not. The definition above is mainly for quantitative/qualitative surveys, but their internal theory can be applied to all kinds of usage of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Jenny Bern
http://jennybern.blogspot.se/2014/10/reflection-of-week-5.html
I agree with you that this weeks papers that we read were more of a typical media technology paper, and I thought that Haibos lecture were the most interesting of the two. Mainly because he talked about the general use and process of design research and referring to his own research as examples, while Eva-Lotta mainly talked about her specific research.
Theme 6 pre:
Viktor leandersson
http://evilmadscientists.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-qualitative-and-case-study.html
now to your text, good reflection on the usage of qualitative methods, that you discuss the side effects etc. This especially when it comes to face2face interviews, how do you compare a persons answers to another persons answers, when they in their basic form are subjective. You can't really compare two subjective answers, and here it comes down to the analyst, to do a subjective conclusion of which one were the best.
Jenny Bern
http://jennybern.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-qualitative-and-case-study.html
Nice evaluation of the definition of a case study. One point I think is crucial to case studies is that you evaluate and examine cases that occured in the past, and you examine it to either investigate the phenomena itself, or you investigate it to study a certain behaviour.
Theme 6 post:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-qualitative-and-case-study_26.html
Hi I also found the last part of the seminar interesting, where we discussed the "information-overload" - aspect of case studies. That to much data gathered form different sources may contradict each other, and thereby provide a faulty view of the problem. I always think there is a risk in using already gathered data to draw you conclusions, even tough their internal questions may be formulated in the same way, and therefore they should provide the same answers and results, I think that people subconsciously takes the subject of the whole survey (or similar data collection method) in mind while answering, which may affect how you answer.
Viktor leandersson
http://evilmadscientists.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-postreflection-qualitative-and.html
Good reflection, I also think that Haibos lecture gave us another perspective on case studies and their applications. One overall problem with sustainable thinking is that we assume that everyone should apply it, every country and culture, which may work in theory but never in reality. Since todays industrial countries (the US and western countries) have already passed the unsustainable phase, and improved their society through it. and lets say, the Chinese or Russians that are in their unsustainable evolving phase right now argues that they need to pass it to be able to think sustainable.
Viktor leandersson
http://evilmadscientists.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-qualitative-and-case-study.html
now to your text, good reflection on the usage of qualitative methods, that you discuss the side effects etc. This especially when it comes to face2face interviews, how do you compare a persons answers to another persons answers, when they in their basic form are subjective. You can't really compare two subjective answers, and here it comes down to the analyst, to do a subjective conclusion of which one were the best.
Jenny Bern
http://jennybern.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-qualitative-and-case-study.html
Nice evaluation of the definition of a case study. One point I think is crucial to case studies is that you evaluate and examine cases that occured in the past, and you examine it to either investigate the phenomena itself, or you investigate it to study a certain behaviour.
Theme 6 post:
Christian Virtala
http://virtaladm2572.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-qualitative-and-case-study_26.html
Hi I also found the last part of the seminar interesting, where we discussed the "information-overload" - aspect of case studies. That to much data gathered form different sources may contradict each other, and thereby provide a faulty view of the problem. I always think there is a risk in using already gathered data to draw you conclusions, even tough their internal questions may be formulated in the same way, and therefore they should provide the same answers and results, I think that people subconsciously takes the subject of the whole survey (or similar data collection method) in mind while answering, which may affect how you answer.
Viktor leandersson
http://evilmadscientists.blogspot.se/2014/10/theme-6-postreflection-qualitative-and.html
Good reflection, I also think that Haibos lecture gave us another perspective on case studies and their applications. One overall problem with sustainable thinking is that we assume that everyone should apply it, every country and culture, which may work in theory but never in reality. Since todays industrial countries (the US and western countries) have already passed the unsustainable phase, and improved their society through it. and lets say, the Chinese or Russians that are in their unsustainable evolving phase right now argues that they need to pass it to be able to think sustainable.
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