This is a wonderful blog, highlighting some of the strengths of good fortune and good practice in academic research. The author sought out other disciplines and

This is a wonderful blog, highlighting some of the strengths of good fortune and good practice in academic research. The author sought out other disciplines and ideas and was rewarded for them, and isn't afraid to cross the mythical qualitative-quantitative method lines. Method is what you learn in PhD school if you do it right. Not following the one methods of a narrow advisor, although that's useful to grok politically as well, but to search out other forms and frames and ways of looking at the phenomena that you wish to examine. There is still a lot of dogma over methodology in schools, even in supposedly interdisciplinary ones like communication schools. The wisest of the academics transcend the political lines of epistemology and examine for themselves what makes sense or not, and end up discovering awesome new things. I'm so glad this one is on her way to more fascinating and unusual insights!