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n May 28th I defended my thesis Mjukvarumiljöer för gemenskap – en studie av nätgemenskap, teknik och kultur [In swedish, english title: Software Environments for Community - a Study of Online Community, Technology and Culture].
I’ve been working on my PhD project for several years, so it feels great to finally complete it!
The thesis is written in Swedish and can be downloaded here.
On Dec 16th I had my “pre-seminar”, presenting and defending my preliminary thesis draft. On the panel asking questions were three colleagues from my own department (Mikael Wiberg, Andreas Lund and Eva Svedmark), and also Mikael Jakobsson who is a former colleague now working at School of Arts & Communication [K3] at Malmö University.
I’m writing my thesis in Swedish and it has the title “Mjukvarumiljöer för gemenskap” which becomes “Software environments for community” in English.
I think the pre-seminar went well and together with my supervisor I have now decided on a plan that should help me to finish my thesis work before summer 2010. Hooray!
Since I haven’t been blogging much, I thought that it might be a good idea to give a short status report. The past year I have been doing a lot of teaching on different undergraduate courses. In addition, I have been an active member of Umeå Live, which also has included some blog activities on our common Umeå Live blog.
I’ve also tried to work on my thesis, but it’s been difficult to create enough free space in my calendar to actually make progress. However, I’m now in a position where I should be able to focus more on the thesis and I really look forward to it. I have a draft version of 8 chapters and will work on the last three chapters in Oct-Nov. Wish me luck!
