I wrote a paper. It's a long paper. And it's linked below. It's the longest paper I have ever written, both in terms of page count and calendar count. My dissertation focused on how digital identities and masculine identities intersect for college men.
The idea for the topic formed a couple of years ago, and I'm not sure that I would have been able to predict how much I enjoyed the process of conducting research and writing about it. I defended the research in May, sent it off to ProQuest and it was just published - I like to think it's because all the folks at ProQuest passed it around to one another to read because it was so interesting and by the time it routed around the office, three months had passed.
Now comes the time to prep presentations and try to get some scaled down versions of the paper published. Here's to sharing the results... and finding more time to conduct research in the future!
You can view my dissertation defense presentation (about 25:00 long). It's not that interesting, but it's proof that I actually finished this thing.
You can view the slides from my dissertation defense here:
And you can download the full dissertation HERE.
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