Networked note-taking as feminist research method

An exploration of everyday academic methods

Kit Chokly, PhD Student in Communication Studies, McGill University

Read the paper

CCA 2023 presentation

The strength of a feminist note-taking system, as I argue, is its networked qualities—a strength that is not necessarily shared with generally linear essays or presentations. This work is like most in that it too is fairly linear. However, I have structured it here as a network to demonstrate some of the technical possibilities of a feminist networked note-taking system. I hope that the differences in genre (essay or presentation vs note) will not interfere with the argument I am trying to make here. You can also always download the paper as a PDF here.

Please click around, explore, and imagine the possibilities this format might afford you and your own note-taking practice. Thanks for reading!

• Follow along linearly
  • Each page includes links to the next page in a linear fashion.
• Play with the network
  • The backlinks pane lists the pages which link to the page you are currently on.
  • The interactive graph shows all pages which directly connected to the page you are currently on.
• Get reoriented
  • Return to this main page by clicking Networked note-taking as feminist research method in the header of the site or the labelled node in the interactive graph.

I’d love to hear about your own integrations of note-taking and writing in your research methods. Feel free to send me an email at kit.chokly@mail.mcgill.ca, or follow me on Mastodon or Twitter. You can also learn more about my other work on trans media studies on my website at kitchokly.com.