HudsonComments1and2Denver

__**Comments on DenverMemo1**__

- What do you mean by alienation? Can you narrow your definition to a more specific area of application?

- Related to the above question, under data sets, you mention that you would like to interview the workers families for this project. What kind of data do you imagine you would receive—pertaining to alienation—from the workers’ family members?

- I’m not sure I understand your biases, why they are biases, for your project description. I think you need to be more clear on this point.

- What about studying empirical documents needs to be improved?

- You cast the first project (alienation in IT workers) as ethnographic and the second project (on engineering studies) as having a more historical component. What’s the difference between these two projects? Where do you see a historical component in engineering studies that is lacking in alienation in IT work? Or rather, could you find a historical component in the first project?

- Why pedagogy in the engineering studies?

- You should talk to Marcy in LLC about youth and the use of internet in cybercafes, etc.


 * __Comments on DenverMemo2__**

- That’s great that you sleep nine hours a day; most people have the dreadful habit of not getting enough sleep AND underestimating how much sleep they really need.

- Why are you afraid of working on multiple tasks?

- I think you should work on having more confidence in the quality of your work. I’m sure you wouldn’t be in this doctoral program if quality was lacking.

- You “lack interest in reality”… I’d like to hear your definition of “reality”.

- That’s interesting that you think having “sympathy with theories” is a talent. Why have you categorized this trait as a talent?