One of our first exercises was to work through a personal vision statement, as a way of guiding us through the thesis exploration, as well as a way of generating a topic that we might actually want to work on for the next year and a half! I want to post mine here, so that I always have it to look back on as this site progresses.

personal-vision-as-presented.pdf

Can the abundant data online be utilized in such a way that it becomes a tool to explore an identity? a community? can it inspire action in the real world?

I'm starting this blog as a place to collect images and ideas that relate to the development of my thesis. My current grad seminar class is forming the major structure of this process right now, and in the course of my reading and investigating I want to put things here that stand out to me as significant or useful to my topic. When I get to the point of having to write my final document, I want to be able to look at this site and see how things evolved.