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© 2021 V&R unipress, Brill Deutschland GmbH ISBN Print: 9783847113232 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737013239 design, “collaboration is always anongoing experimentwithdifferent formsof intimacy.”22Thinkingabouthoweach teammember feelsabout theexperiment and eachother begins to sketch the contours of those intimacies: the patience, generosity, andhumour, aswell as the frustration, confusionandmis-commu- nications; theutopianaims,andthemoremundanerealitiesofcoding,cleaning data, andordering thebiscuits—orupscale snacks—for the test events. Concluding thoughts Building as amethod for reader research is both a pragmatically banal and an intellectually iterativeprocess.Whenbuildingisundertakencollaborativelywith otherresearchers,andwithreaders themselves, it sharesacommongroundwith focus groups. I have begun tomap that commonground in this essay by fore- grounding elements of social process such as the co-production and co-con- struction of bothmeaning and objects. I have also tried, through stories and criticalreflection,tohighlighthowthepracticesofcollectivereading,likethoseof building, are socially situated. These practices are structured through an un- derstandingoftheeverydayworldthatwecannotgraspthroughonlyonemethod orone interpretativeparadigm. Ifmy story has amottomaybe it is this: Readers are great company, but as researchers I thinkwehave tobeprepared tomakenewmethods, toget lost, to becomeuncomfortable, and to fail.Weneed to feel the flashofpanicwhen ‘it’s notonmymap!’ Bibliography Allington, Daniel/Pihlaja, Stephen (eds.): “Reading in the Age of the Internet”, in: LanguageandLiterature [Special Issue],2016/25 (3), S. 201–210. Balling, Gitte: “What IsAReadingExperience?TheDevelopment of aTheoretical and Empirical Understanding”, in: Rothbauer, Paulette M./Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar/ McKechnie, Lynne/Oterholm, Knut (eds.): Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory, Practice, Politics.Waterloo:WilfridLaurierUP, 2016, pp. 37–53. Benwell, Bethan/Procter, James/Robinson, Gemma: “‘That’s maybe where I come frombutthat’snothowIread’:Diaspora,LocationandReadingIdentities”, in:Benwell, Bethan/Procter, James/Robinson, Gemma (eds.): Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers, andReceptionLondon:Routledge, 2012, pp. 43–56. Fuller,Danielle [unpublishedMS]: “ReadingLife Stories: EncounterswithReaders and Genre”, 2017. 22 Jagoda2014,p. 208. “It’snotonmymap!”: A JourneyThroughMethods in theCompanyofReaders 227 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0