Seed+Research+EF

__Seed Research MEMO__


 * Conducting a survey and overview of various Makerspaces, community centers, hackerspaces, community art spaces, etc. that are involved in specific communities, possibly with some interviews or participant observation. This would not be final research, but more a cursory overlook of what is going on in different spaces and to give me a better sense of where I want to anchor my field sites and research


 * Research of online communities, based around a content/discourse analysis of what is going on and also what the media has to say about it.


 * Interviews and/or surveys at the Troy Makerspace as a test site, hopefully with a mentor or someone helping me.


 * Researching Media/Policy Documents/Grey Matter about Makerspaces, Citizen Science, and Public Engagement within science
 *  Grounding myself more in theory: Finding more literature about current iterations of technological citizenship & critical consciousness -- also more social theory!! Read more on material agency (Barad, Pickering, etc.)