TBB199Y1 Lecture Notes - Chat Room, Palestinian Americans, Edward Said
26 May 2013
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Topic: relationship between asian women and western men. Relationship facilitated through e-mail: relationships made online can be deceptive, miscommunications. Translation miscommunications: cultural clash of meaning innuendos. What does it mean to present you genuinely: genuine and not genuine is not bi-polar but on a continuum. Photoshop on your picture: example: women in china are getting glamour shots from the western men. Look for internet chat rooms for transnational relationships. Independent e-mail exchanges with people involved in these relationships: researcher goes to these places, in china, internet cafes, follows females who try these false relationships and keep tract: longitudinal, retrospective stories of these females. Note: the ethics of this methodology were not made. The author is one of the first to use this type of methodology and is not sure of the ethical guidelines: example: unclear if allowed doing quotes from chat rooms. Author got flamed for joining these chat rooms for research and had to withdraw.
