Subculture BLOGG entry

My subculture is going to be on halo and call of duty games.

Summary of the Class

I actually enjoyed the assignments I think the fact that they weren't explained made them difficult. I did well on every assignment but not the last one. The biggest problem I had with all my papers was citation. I didn't use the correct citation on any of my papers mainly because I didn't know how to do it. I learned many new things from class for example how to make a website and a blog. I think the way the assignments were presented were poor if the assignments were presented better this would be a better class.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ETNOGEN TERMS

1. I have heard of the following words:
2. artifacts
3. assumptions
4. authority
5. context
6. culture
7. dialect
8. interviews
9. questionnaire
10. subculture
11. survey
12. theory
13. transcript
14. Informant
15. interactions
16. rituals

Words I have never heard of:

1. confessional tale
2. discourse community
3. ethnographic research
4. ethnography
5. field research
6. human subjects review board
7. impressionist tale
8. informed consent
9. marginalization
10. participant observer
11. positioning
12. proxemics
13. realist tale
14. research question
15. response rate
16. specialized vocabulary
17. structured observation
18. thick description
19. triangulation
20. underlife

Cyber-literacy-most useful parts/general readability

I didn't really enjoy reading this book I would have to say I enjoyed reading research matters more.

2nd chance Summary: Summary and Citation of "The Southpaw's Secret Semantics"

People who are left handed are not as closely related to those right handed as previously thought. Left hand users develop and process language different, they also suffer more when parts of the brain is injured, the main point is that left handed users are the complete opposite of right hand users.

Reaction to the "Guest Speaker" Steven Johnson on "Where Good Ideas Come From"

I thought the guest speaker was good he covered alot of good topics. The only thing I wasnt please with was how fast he presented information. I tryed to take notes but it was impossible to do with him talking so fast.

Progress Report:How do you feel about your topic and/ or overall research paper progress at this point

I feel my research proposal is going well so far today I checked books out of the library to help with the research because just article sources and websites from online weren't enough. So far Ive only skimmed one book and it broadened my horizon on what exactly global warming is and its effects on the effects.