All my comments

Here are all the comments I've made on other blogs during this course:

Theme 1:

1. I feel like your experience with this theme and the first week of the course has been pretty much alike. I also feel that the seminar was the best part and it was there I learned the most. I had a hard time understanding and reading the texts and my first blogpost was very uncertain from my part. However after the seminar I felt that alot of that uncertainty was removed and what I had suspected to be correct about the texts were confirmed.
I also agree that the biggest change and thing I learned this week was the changed way of thinking. No longer in a fact-based way where there are absolutes but rather arguing for an answer no one really knows if it is true or false.


2. I haven't really given philosophy a chance before this course either and I found it hard to actually grasp alot of the terms used in these texts. I also found it hard to read and understand the texts as it took me alot longer to read these texts than it usually takes for me to read something. It sounds like both you and maybe your seminargroup put alot of emphasis on the posterori and a priori concepts. I found these hard to understand and I do not know if I still know what they mean to a full but I think it is good that you focused on these as they are a part of the main subject of weeks 1 subject.


3. I agree with the above and I also think that the texts were challenging in themselves but it was almost more challenging to learn to interpret and understand philosophical texts in general. I believe, especially Kant's text, is a hard one to understand but since we aren't used to philosophical terms, texts and thinking that just adds to the difficulty of the first week in this course.
I, like you, also used summaries and study guides about these texts to fully grasp what they were trying to say. I think it helped a great deal but I think that after the first week we will all get more used to reading texts like these and have a easier time reading, understanding and reflecting about the texts and questions that are given to us.

Theme 2:

1. I, like you, also thought this weeks texts and concepts were a lot easier than those of week one. I feel like you understood Adorno & Horkheimer's text better than Benjamin's but I still think you summarized the week in a good way that is easy to understand. Good work!


2. I feel like we had a similar experience with this weeks theme but you put it to words better than I did. I also felt that nominalism was the hardest part to fully grasp and that the seminar helped me as well as you to understand the concept. I think your example with the different shades of red was on point and that you overall summarized this week very well.


3. I think, as you say, that most of us had the biggest problem of grasping nominalism and realism this week. I don’t quite understand your example when you talk about the chair but if it works for you then great! If you do mean it as Marcus describes it above I understand it. I’ve also heard of the third person experience with the drone and headset and I think it sounds extremely cool but also wierd. It is not hard to realize that the perception of yourself that you have would change when seeing yourself in third person. I agree that perception was a lot easier to understand than the concepts of nominalism and realism and it feels like we had a similar learning curve during this week.

Theme 3:

1. Waddup!

I also felt that this weeks theme was a lot easier to grasp than previous weeks! I also realized that I've been confusing theory and hypothesis and I think that a lot of others have been/are doing this as well. I like your explanation of weak and strong theory and I, like you, also hadn't thought about that theory can be weak or strong so that is something I've also learned during this week!


2. Hello there,
I liked that you and your seminar group saw the connection between this theme and the previous themes and actually discussed the theme with that in mind. It sounds like an interesting discussion and I also feel like discussion theory and truth together can be very hard and dangerous since a theory isn't always true. It is a interesting thing to consider since it is often, when it comes to theory, about observations. Because it is about observations it is also about perception and we all know where that discussion leads, (often nowhere) but it is very interesting nonetheless.


3. Hi there,
I think a lot of people don't know the difference between theory and a hypothesis (except for the people taking this course now and I don't think everyone knew before this week, at least I didn't) so it is a good way to start of your reflection. I also like that you end your reflection with your understanding of theory, might be because I agree with you and I have the same understanding. That theory is a process I find is very true and the importance of balancing the findings with actually understanding the answer and the significance of the question is not to be forgotten!

Theme 4:

1. Hi!
I enjoyed reading your reflections and found it interesting to read the reflections of someone that didn't know exactly what quantitative and qualitative methods are beforehand. I feel that I haven't learned that much during this week since I've actually used these methods myself so it is good to see that you've learned a lot. I think your understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods are good and I agree that using them together or converting one to the other can improve the results.


2. Hi Lisa,
I think you did a very good job of summarizing this weeks theme in a good way and it is easy to understand your explanations and reflections. I liked the part with the dependent and independent variables, I was there at the lecture but I must've spaced out when it was said. I also like the part at the end when you explain that you should let the question of the study determine the research method. I think this is very true and a good way to go about doing research!


3. Hi there,I couldn’t agree more that this theme was a lot easier to understand and more tangible. I also find it confusing with all the overlapping themes but soon it will start to be less and less! I had the same experience as you had in my group during the seminar, there wasn’t that much to talk about. I don’t know about your group but in my group at least all of us had done our bachelor thesis so we all had experience with both qualitative and quantitative methods. Good to see you felt that you’ve learned things this week, interviews being qualitative being one of them.

Theme 5:

1. Hi,
I also think that the fact that there were two lectures rather than one lecture and one seminar, sadly, didn't really make this weeks theme justice. I also think it got really confusing and there was so much information without any real discussion and that made at least me feel like I didn't learn as much as I could have. However I think your summarize is good and the five points Haibo brought up is maybe the most important part of this weeks theme to grasp in my opinion so the fact that you've understood those is great. The role of prototyping in design research is also very important and it looks to me like you've grasped that concept fully as well.


2. Hello there!
I also found it interesting to think about great and innovative ideas not needing to be a technological innovative idea. The example with Facebook is great and it really makes you think about innovation and I think that most people when they hear innovation they think about new technology only and don't consider new ways of using existing technology. I also liked that you show the main stages of design research before you dive in and further describes the different steps, it really makes it easy to understand.


3. Hi there,
great that you feel that you've learned a lot during this week! The five Cisco criteria to define "the next big idea" really sums up the things you need to think about when working with design research. It would've been interesting to read more about prototyping and its role in design research and the strengths/weaknesses of prototyping.

Theme 6:

1. Hi Anton,
very nice and thorough reflection! I felt the same way during the discussions in my group that it was much more interesting to discuss case studies rather than qualitative research since we talked about it during theme 4. Comparing your different papers within the group seems like a good way to go about this theme and I, like you, also missed the lecture this week. I like that you bring up what Illias said about case studies, that they are often more interesting when they generate new knowledge and theory instead of confirming old one.

2. Hi there Isabella.
I enjoyed reading your reflection and I agree with you on basically all of your points. I also feel that not having a lecture was a unfortunate thing to happen since I felt like my learning didn't go as smooth as previous weeks and you and me are probably not alone in this aspect. I also agree that there should be just one theme covering both quantitative and qualitative research methods since it is much easier to talk about both, rather than just one of them. One of your most important points, according to me, is the fact that you can use a case study to see if the area is worth researching further and also how to do that research.

3. Hi,
interesting reflection and good job on using the first theme in this one as well. I do however also disagree that a case study is a qualitative research method. A case study can contain both quantitative and qualitative research methods or only one of them but when I think of case studies I actually think of it as a qualitative method. This might be because most of the case studies I've seen have been mostly qualitative but defining a case study as a qualitative method is the part I find hard to agree with. Other than that it was a nice reflection!