Hijab online: the ethnography of a website
Observation 1: The author mentioned the problem of youngest people don’t want wear jilbabs, because it is not fancy.
Location 1: “There was a real problem for youngest brought up in this country. I could see it with my sisters and their friends. Many didn’t wear jilbabs because most of the jilbabs in the shops were catering for the old generation which the younger generation didn’t fancy, so didn’t wear. At the same time there were some sisters designing their own jilbabs but these weren’t so widely accessible. So i thought I’d try branching into that and make them available over the Wed.”
Interpretation 1: I thought the author noticed what happened in her society, and do some research about it and solve the problem the younger generation had.
Observation 2: The author said that she made one hijab fitting on all size.
Location 2: “After about a year of trying to sell jilbabs, I hit on the hijab idea. I realized that the hijab is easy. It’s compact, easy to stock and you don’t have to worry about sizes. One size fits all. It’s just a square or a rectangle, and everybody needs it, and they will but more hijab than they will jilbabs.”
Interpretation 2: I think there is always some thing better than what you do, also you have the ability to do it. But in most of the case, we didn’t find it. From the book, the author also tried a year to sell jilbabs, but later on, the author found that the hijab might sell better than jilbabs.
Observation 3: The author said the way how the society judge the way of models wearing the outfits.
Location 3: “I must say I would rather show the faces of the models. It looks much nicer cos you get the whole package, the whole outfit, but I think people are reluctant still. It will change, but not yet. I think by next year I might be able to get away with showing the face!”
Interpretation 3: Personally, I think the designer should have the power to manipulate the way of showing the outfits. I could feel that the author also have the same faith about that.
The Craft of Research
Observation 1: The author gave the idea if we got too much freedom to choose our research top in a short time, making the decision is gonna be very difficult.
Location 1: “If you are free to research any topic that interest you, that freedom might seem frustrating—so many choices, so little time.”
Interpretation 1: I agree with what the author said, because in my case, I have the same problems. The topic teacher gave me is too big, I had to spend a lot of time on choosing the right topic. But if we narrow our topic a little bit, we have fewer things to choose. Which means we can get the topic we want easier. Also as what the author said in the next few pages, author also gave the same idea to solve this problem.
Observation 2: The author mentioned the importance or the meaning of the research to the public.
Location 2: “Many high school teachers would reward such a report with a good grade, because it shows that the writer can focus on a topic, find data on it, and assemble those data into a report, no small achievement—for a first project. But in any college course, such a report falls short if it is seems as just a pastiche of vaguely related facts.”
Interpretation 2: I think each thing should have some meaning in it. As well as the research, the result of your research that people should care about, or it should be helpful. As a guide, it could make research better, we don’t have to waste time on the topic nobody cares.
Observation 3: Each title of the chapter five are quite important to us to learn how to do research.
Location 3: “Knowing how to use three kinds of sources.” “Locating sources through a library.” “ Locating sources on the Internet.” “Evaluating sources for relevance and reliability.” “Following bibliographical trails.” “Looking beyond predictable sources.” “Using people as primary sources.”
Interpretation 3: Basically, the author just list the steps for research. I have to say that we have a lot of sources can be used, library, the people, the Internet, a lot of things we can do research or get data. Meanwhile, also because the source is too much, sometimes it is difficult to choose the right source. The instruction above is the right order to do the research.
