I decided to actually sit down while I drank a cup of coffee and draw my little daisy. This is the bedraggled result:
It took a few tries to put this daisy together. This was mainly because I couldn't just draw my petals randomly. I found myself spending so much time thinking about the order of the petals and how they intersect that it didn't feel like a brainstorming session or even that exploratory. As I tried to put the petals together, I felt like I was imposing an order on the different concepts, which defeats the purpose.
I am all about visualization since I'm a visual and experiential learner, so I went in with an open mind. Although this forced me to think about the various aspects of my research interest, I don't think it helped me in the way that Luker intended (or maybe I'm just not sure how Luker intended this exercise to function).
I also had to add a little bit of grass to the picture (if we're going to use flower metaphors, why not take it further?) to frame my daisy...frame. All of my thinking started from pedagogy: how do we teach people things? How do we teach scholars about social scholarship? About their engagement in sociotechnical systems? About performativity online?
Even though the end result of my research will probably not be pedagogical methods, I think it's important to keep that in mind, since that's where the other questions stem from (can't avoid the puns).
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