For our intensive research, we focused on word choice and what that might convey about the opinions one might have regarding. We thought that by looking at the words the Federation of Western Outdoor Club was using in it’s publications Outdoors West, we could get a better idea of how their ideas surrounding wilderness and conservation […]
Setting the Stage: Initial Research
To begin our research, we read FWOC’s website. There wasn’t much to look at, as FWOC has not focused much on developing their social media interactions. We decided that in order to get a better idea of what FWOC was, we needed to figure out what kind of people were in its member organizations. From […]
Actor-Network Theory Diagram
By: Myles Bridgewater-Jackman, AnaCapri Mauro, and Kara Scherer In creating our mind map we first identified the four main actors pertinent to the revitalization of the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs: the Federation itself, perceptions, non-members, and demographics. FWOC produces the biannually distributed newsletter Outdoors West that details their resolutions as an organization. These resolutions […]
Generational Perceptions of Wilderness
In creating our framing questions, focus questions, and potential tools for analysis, we ran into several roadblocks. We started by trying to craft our framing question and became stuck in the object of wilderness and connecting it to our greater project as a whole. When we approached the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs website, we […]