This past week I have been collecting data and settling on interesting and doable methodology. My focus question is currently set as: To what extent have precision agriculture technologies been successful in achieving sustainable development goals in California and India? This question is driven by sustainable development goals and what current technologies are achieving. However, farming data […]
Archives for November 2017
The Outline of an Outline
This week was focused on creating an outline that will be used for both the 5-page paper at the end of the semester and my final paper/thesis outcome. The following outcome was created with pretty strict adherence to the guideline for situated research as posted on the ENVS page. Outlining was helpful for identifying the […]
Time For a Timeline
As the semester is entering its final third, it is time to reflect on what I have accomplished so far and what else I will need to do for the rest of the semester. So far, I feel that I have a framing question and a solid base of research that forms the basis for […]
Concept Mapping – What’s In An Actor?
This week I dove into my first situated context: precision agriculture in California. Through this process I created an Actor-Network map: This really helped to organize my thoughts around California agriculture and got me to think about several actors and relationships that I need to research further. A big actor that has currently been mostly absent […]