Current Focus

From time to time I find value in shifting perspectives on underlying research methodologies.

Currently I am exploring how far analysis using a semiotic or structuralist methods can be taken in different fields. In music semiotics has quite a technical flavour, in some way resembling traditional formal analysis  in it's pursuit of systems.  Nattiez's  tripartite of  poietics, analysis and esthesics is interesting though in that you contextualize the analysis first and at that time choose or develop an appropriate technique based upon the context. I think this could be a fascinating way of analysing the products of educational technology.  Those products might be software produced by professionals or they might be digital movies made by children.  By trying to understand the data as an artifact we can bring into play context, gender, intertextuality and structure in a facinating way.