This will be mainly a journal for the disseration process and place to communicate with the participants of the study if they choose to. The study will be asking
- how different identities come together online
- whether communicating embodied experience through blogs aids understanding and diversity
- how can blogs serve as an inclusion tool
The method used will be discourse analysis and online interviews which I hope to do through this blog. I have decided to read women with impairments, disabilities, mental health problems and chronic illnesses (which all are forced into the category ‘disability’ for economy reasons). The reason for that is that even though I understand and respect the obvious differences between conditions and embodied experiences, I decided that the shared experiences are more important to me here.
‘…[T]here are many points of connection between very different people rooted in their shared experiences of biomedical inscription, pain, social isolation and political and economic marginalisation’ (Parr and Butler 1999, Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of illness, impairment and disability, Routledge: 2)
The outline and title will be submitted on the 23rd May 08.
