Hi there! That's right, I just haven't entered the fics yet (or much data about the dojinshi save basic bibliographic stuff). I actually have a full-time job at university doing a variety of event-organizing, translation and TA-related things, and every now and then the amount of work for that job blows up and my personal research has to crawl along for a while. There'll be very little movement until the second half of November, I'm afraid, but then I'll be adding things again.
Surveyfail was scary, both in and of itself and in a "There but for the grace of LJ go I" sense. I think I'll make good use of the TA time to tell the Japanese Studies undergrads about Surveyfail. It's a pretty perfect example of How Not To Study People You Don't Know Much About.
And yes, I'm worried as well that this fiasco will make it harder to conduct serious research. So far not many people have asked me not to analyze their work, but if more do once I start making more noise, I really couldn't blame them.
Since I don't have much data entered yet, I haven't been pimping the data sets to others. This December I'm headed for a conference in Kyoto on manga studies, and I fully intend to have a lot of workable data by then to bother my colleagues with ;) And the new undergrads, especially them. At least half of the really useful and insightful comments I've gotten so far were not from fellow academics but random other fans. There seem to be a lot of dojinshi lovers among the new group, and they were practically bouncing from the ceiling when I asked if they wanted to help yesterday. Good times ahead!
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Surveyfail was scary, both in and of itself and in a "There but for the grace of LJ go I" sense. I think I'll make good use of the TA time to tell the Japanese Studies undergrads about Surveyfail. It's a pretty perfect example of How Not To Study People You Don't Know Much About.
And yes, I'm worried as well that this fiasco will make it harder to conduct serious research. So far not many people have asked me not to analyze their work, but if more do once I start making more noise, I really couldn't blame them.
Since I don't have much data entered yet, I haven't been pimping the data sets to others. This December I'm headed for a conference in Kyoto on manga studies, and I fully intend to have a lot of workable data by then to bother my colleagues with ;) And the new undergrads, especially them. At least half of the really useful and insightful comments I've gotten so far were not from fellow academics but random other fans. There seem to be a lot of dojinshi lovers among the new group, and they were practically bouncing from the ceiling when I asked if they wanted to help yesterday. Good times ahead!