{"id":1300,"date":"2011-11-14T00:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2011-11-22T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T22:57:37","slug":"interdisciplinarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/2011\/11\/14\/interdisciplinarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Interdisciplinarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just reading Repko&#8217;s book on <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books\/about\/Interdisciplinary_research.html?id=kDoYPVJONIoC&amp;redir_esc=y\">Interdisciplinary Research<\/a>. Very interesting to consider that,&#8217; Interdisciplinary research is a decision-making process that is heuristic, iterative, and reflexive. Each of these terms &#8211; decision-making, process, heuristic, iterative, and reflexive-requires explanation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finding this very intriguing, especially in relation to one of our courseworks that involves outlining the process involved in searching for and (hopefully) finding material on a randomly selected question that has something to do with the web at its heart. It is interesting that although we think of searching as &#8216;seeking&#8217; there is sometimes an element of filtering or of looking for material that might reinforce one&#8217;s original ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Have also been reading on economics in Afghanistan, Intelligent Agents (not secret ones), hypermedia, (just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/humument.com\/\">The Humument<\/a> &#8211; an old favourite of mine is about to be released as an app) bots (including <a href=\"http:\/\/gamine-jeanrenaud.weavrs.info\/#\/view\/grid\/\">narrative bots<\/a> and social bots &#8211; here&#8217;s one I made earlier) and privacy. At present these don&#8217;t strictly appear to be to do with my original question, but some of the topics keep re-presenting themselves to me and so I&#8217;m keeping an eye on them, to see if they might develop into a personal theme. Have also been reading on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spime\">spimes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyperreality\">hyperreality<\/a> and skeuomorphs, and came across this blog from Matt Jones on <a href=\"http:\/\/magicalnihilism.com\/2011\/08\/18\/my-problem-with-the-internet-of-things\/\">The Internet of Things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good introduction to Sociology (Giddens) but need to also check to see what isn&#8217;t in it, as it&#8217;s quite an old copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just reading Repko&#8217;s book on Interdisciplinary Research. Very interesting to consider that,&#8217; Interdisciplinary research is a decision-making process that is heuristic, iterative, and reflexive. Each of these terms &#8211; decision-making, process, heuristic, iterative, and reflexive-requires explanation.&#8217; I&#8217;m finding this very intriguing, especially in relation to one of our courseworks that involves outlining the process involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,264],"tags":[16123,16118,242,16126,16125,16128,16124,16121,16130,16143,16122,16129,16127],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-discipline","category-sociology-discipline","tag-bots","tag-decision-making","tag-economics","tag-heuristic","tag-hypermedia","tag-hyperreality","tag-intelligent-agents","tag-interdisciplinary","tag-internet-of-things","tag-maire","tag-searching","tag-skeuomorph","tag-spimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}