Open AccessCenter Frame: Agency in the Lives of Researchers
Author(s) -
PARKER BRANDY
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1559-8918
pISSN - 1559-890X
DOI - 10.1111/1559-8918.2019.01279
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , frame (networking) , work (physics) , center (category theory) , meditation , sociology , public relations , aesthetics , engineering ethics , political science , computer science , art , history , engineering , social science , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , chemistry , archaeology , crystallography
We try to avoid being on camera, but as researchers, are we ever really out of frame? Centered around a life‐changing project that had lackluster results, this piece is a meditation on our agency, or lack of agency, as researchers. Our work gives us unique glimpses into worlds no one else is privy to, and what we experience changes us. At times, the most powerful advancement of our work is in our own lives.