Comments on: Webvideo Explosion Kills the PhD Student http://anaj.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/webvideo-explosion-kills-the-phd-student/ Everyone knows diaries are full of crap. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:44:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: lenina http://anaj.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/webvideo-explosion-kills-the-phd-student/#comment-6580 lenina Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:48:01 +0000 http://anaj.wordpress.com/?p=628#comment-6580 I had the same problem in my own PhD research, even though at the time YouTube didn't even exist! Nevertheless, there was still far too much material out there ('webfilms'), so I had to just exclude certain stuff (in my case, any Flash animations which were big at the time, due to lower bandwitdh requirements). The same is true of theory and methodology - there is so much out there that can be used and utilised, and how to decide what is right for your research? The good thing though is that it's not really intellectually very challenging to do a PhD - it's more about organising your time, being able to structure and manage the process and the vast amount of material. The actual 'thinking' bit is easy :) I had the same problem in my own PhD research, even though at the time YouTube didn’t even exist!

Nevertheless, there was still far too much material out there (’webfilms’), so I had to just exclude certain stuff (in my case, any Flash animations which were big at the time, due to lower bandwitdh requirements).

The same is true of theory and methodology - there is so much out there that can be used and utilised, and how to decide what is right for your research?

The good thing though is that it’s not really intellectually very challenging to do a PhD - it’s more about organising your time, being able to structure and manage the process and the vast amount of material. The actual ‘thinking’ bit is easy :)

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