{"id":543,"date":"2006-03-29T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2006-03-29T15:59:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T21:59:14","slug":"internet-genealogy-community-study-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2006\/03\/29\/internet-genealogy-community-study-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Genealogy Community Study is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet Genealogy Community Study<\/a> and its blog are back in action, starting up this week (monday to be precise).<\/p>\n

Kylie Veale and her site, are, in her words, An Australian ‘Internet Studies’ PhD student researching online genealogy within the broader context of hobbyist Internet usage. How do genealogists use the Internet? What are the consequences of the development of genealogy as a significant Internet-based activity? <\/em><\/p>\n

She has now published a “rolling draft” of her Thesis Outline, located here<\/a>, where she breaks everything out (what else would an outline be?). It’s very interesting that while genealogy has spawned more than a few degrees, this is one of the few, if not the only, degree\/thesis based around the study of genealogists themselves, and how they use the internet.<\/p>\n

It’s a great premise, after all, the two most revolutionary things to occur in genealogy in our lifetimes have been the advent of personal computers and access to the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Internet Genealogy Community Study<\/a> and its blog are back in action, starting up this week (monday to be precise).<\/p>\n

Kylie Veale and her site, are, in her words, An Australian ‘Internet Studies’ PhD student researching online genealogy within the broader context of hobbyist Internet usage. How do genealogists use the Internet? What are the consequences of the development of genealogy as a significant Internet-based activity? <\/em><\/p>\n

She has now published a “rolling draft” of her Thesis Outline, located here<\/a>, where she breaks everything out (what else would an outline be?). It’s very interesting that while genealogy has spawned more than a few degrees, this is one of the few, if not the only, degree\/thesis based around the study of genealogists themselves, and how they use the internet.<\/p>\n

It’s a great premise, after all, the two most revolutionary things to occur in genealogy in our lifetimes have been the advent of personal computers and access to the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,13,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}