Hello fellow Yarn
enthusiast
I am a faculty member in the American Culture
Studies program and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green
State University. I am researching handmade movements and entrepreneurs
worldwide and am very interested in the work you are doing. I too am an avid
consumer of fiber my main skills include crochet, spinning and weaving. I am a
member of both etsy.com and ravelry.com and have enjoyed being a part of those
online communities for five years now.
I was hoping you would agree to be interviewed
by email and/or maybe Skype and/or telephone. At minimum perhaps we could
exchange one or two emails based on the questions I have for you. Depending on
how you feel about continuing the conversation with me, I will request follow-up
interviews by Skype or telephone. If, however, you feel more comfortable
speaking to me on phone rather than replying at length by email, that is fine
too. I will need to record our conversations. These will be stored on my password-protected
computer and kept confidential. Further to our email and/or phone exchanges, I
my visit your brick and mortar location to continue this research. These
research visits will be limited to one or two at the most.
Of course your name will be kept confidential
in the publications I write based on the interview unless you actually want to
or don’t mind my using your actual names. Whatever I write up - I will share
with you before publishing. I would also love to hear stories about your
learning process and the community of crafters in your life. I realize that I
am asking for your time and time is precious - but hopeful that you will agree
to at least a part of this. Even if you are able to give me half an hour of
your time on Skype or by phone, it will help my research a lot.
Academic writing doesn't make money - so I
certainly wont be making money off of this, it is purely for academic research
and conservation of culture in written form.
Regardless, I am always your fan and will keep
buying your beautiful yarn and roving whenever I have stash cravings.
Thank you for thinking about this - feel free
to ask me as many questions as you like.
5 comments:
Hi, am happy to converse via e mail. Am a bit rubbish at Skype but could get my head around it perhaps. Kind Regards, beth barlow, knit a year
Beth that would be wonderful - if we could also try some form of video conversation too that would be even better - it is "oral histories" after all.
So why dont we start with emails first - and I'm already on your knit-a-year talking to you (knitayear.ning.com) - so if you like sometimes we can even chat synchronously there... that will feed into your project too?
Always happy to help out, if you decide I'm interesting or informative enough!
Of course ! I'll be in touch via email unless you are on ravelry and prefer that
Diane - just realized I have no way of contacting you - please either find me on ravelry (radhika80 - or email me - radhik [at] bgsu.edu
thanks a ton!
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