I have completed my PhD in sociology at the University of Essex and my research focus was the political side of digital culture, having crowd funding as my case study.
Here I share my thesis as well as working papers, drafts etc. Feel free to read, comment, criticize, get in touch and so on.
Just in case: Yes, I'm geek enough to prefer a markdown language rather than a word processor; Git rather than word processors' comments and tracking tools.
As you probably have discovered by yourself, I'm not a native English speaker. I'm really sorry for all the small crimes I commit with your beloved language. I'd be really glad if you point them out.
If this introduction is not enough start stalking me.
The following commands and scripts depend on the following binaries available in your path: gem, asciidoctor, python (version 3.4+), prince and pandoc.
Once you have installed these packages, you can automatically install some dependencies:
$ make initA script helps you generating nice HTML, PDF and Word versions of the files. Use pipenv shell to activate the environment and run:
$ python render.py <path to AsciiDoctor file>Example:
$ python render.py conferences/cd2015.adoc
While you are working you can watch for changes and the files will be generated automatically:
$ python render.pyThere is also a shortcut to clean all the auto-generated files:
$ make cleanThe thesis is prepared to be published as an ebook:
$ cd thesis
$ asciidoctor-epub3 ebook.adoc
>>>>>>> thesisSince Amazon's kindlegen seams to be broken (it throws a Bad CPU type in executable error in macOS), the Kindle version was created from the .epub using Kindle Previwer 3.
This research is possible due to the scholarship offered by CAPES, a government agency linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Education.
These writings by Eduardo Cuducos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
