Our task this week was to write a 5 page thesis as a way to determine the most important components and ideas of our argument. In an attempt to have complete data for this, these past few weeks I’ve been logging posts from Portland’s “snowpocalypse” that happened over winter break. I’m using this as a case […]
Visualizing the Invisible: Portland’s Minority Populations
As our first project in (Un)Natural Disasters, we mapped the various vulnerabilities in our very own city: Portland, OR. The rationale behind this project was that colleges and universities are generally well-known in the community, and are known to have both material and human resources that could be of use to people. Therefore, they could potentially be […]
Bare Branches: A Brief Outline
Today’s assignment was to create an outline for our 5 page thesis due next week. Approaching this assignment was an interesting exercise for me since we’ve already written a final synthesis and a full length outline. Last time my outline was way too long — so this time I tried to vastly simplify it since […]
Who, What, Where? Creating a CMap of My Thesis
When creating the concept map for my thesis, I began to realize that I don’t actually have that many actors in my Nextdoor case study. I thought perhaps I should bring in more local organizations like Collins View NET or perhaps the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management, but they aren’t as relevant to my study as […]
Virtual Third Places: A final synthesis
Below is a copy of my final synthesis post. Although not nearly close to being complete, this final synthesis proved to me how far I’ve come since the beginning of the semester. I can only imagine where I’ll be after another semester of thesis work (well, I actually can imagine it because it will be done… […]
My Nextdoor Collins View Survey!
This week has been so exciting!! I finally got all my questions together and finalized them with Liz. Yesterday I posted the survey link on Nextdoor (restricted to Collins View) and have already gotten almost 30 responses! Seeing as I probably want at least 100 and this initial spike was probably the most traffic my […]