{"id":7134,"date":"2022-06-27T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:23:00","slug":"big-data-makes-me-uncomfortable-but-hey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2022\/06\/27\/big-data-makes-me-uncomfortable-but-hey\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Makes Me Uncomfortable, but Hey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot for me to say that I\u2019m <em>truly <\/em>uncomfortable.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2022\/06\/Johnson_BP1_Image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7135\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2022\/06\/Johnson_BP1_Image2-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"318\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In life, I am pretty sure I\u2019ve lived it in a perpetual state of discomfort\u2014or at least a way in which I embrace situations that aren\u2019t all that cozy. I believe in being uncomfortable so much, that I used to start my senior English class (I used to teach high school) each semester with an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/uscatholic.org\/articles\/201602\/are-catholic-university-students-being-coddled\/\">needing controversy, not comfort<\/a> in our classroom spaces. For me, being truly uncomfortable really is about admitting I don\u2019t know something and the public perception that I\u2019m not actually as put together as I like to personify to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just say I\u2019m having that moment.<\/p>\n<p>As part of my project, I\u2019m having to work with Big Data \u2013 like hundreds of thousands of cells of data. And I\u2019ve often been vocally opposed to doing this type of research because I find it lacking the ethic that I live by; I feel like I can\u2019t find relationships and work to help challenge oppressive systems. But what I\u2019m trying to accomplish cannot be done without living in the uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I\u2019ve gotten tremendous support in the early weeks of the fellowship as I embark on my journey to learn R, work with so many pieces of data, and find how to make something from plenty.<\/p>\n<p>My fellowship project hopefully will result in a searchable database of journalism, media, and communication research that lives on a static webpage, with a specific focus on mixed methods studies. This means that journalism, media, and communication scholars and professionals will be able to go to this page, query certain keywords and mixed methods used, and get a list of articles that respond to that need\u2014with the title, author, journal, and DOI that can be used to access the article in other search engines or libraries. I\u2019m doing this as part of a larger project with Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/journalism.uiowa.edu\/people\/melissa-tully\">Melissa Tully<\/a> and Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/journalism.uiowa.edu\/people\/rachel-young\">Rachel Young<\/a> about the current state of mixed methods research in journalism, media, and communication. It is the comfort of having them with me on this process, as well as the incredible Nikki White coaching me along, that I embrace my discomfort and work to better myself and my field in the process.<\/p>\n<p>-Patrick Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot for me to say that I\u2019m truly uncomfortable. In life, I am pretty sure I\u2019ve lived it in a perpetual state of discomfort\u2014or at least a way in which I embrace situations that aren\u2019t all that cozy. 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