after looking at the example of research i have reliased that i need
1.the first thing he did was create broad question so he could get a better idea of where he wanted to go with his research
2. he then begins to go in detail by picking a specific group to research about discussing there demographic.
3. he then went on the net to find information about what he was researching finding it history
4. he looked at things that related to
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Other forms of research
experiments- is a test to see if something you are researching is true or not. I think this could come in use when it comes to test something like a new game on a console. If you added a new feature to the game and wanted to see if gamers understood or liked you could gather a group of different people to test it. It is factual and would give you a controlled group of people. A disadvantage is that the amount of people you use will often not reflect the majority views.
participant observation- is when the researcher participates in the activity in order to better understand. This can be very useful if you need your research to be documented as a fact you participating will add to your findings. if someone says something and you don't know if they are being honest or not you doing it may give you a better an idea. A disadvantage to this may occur if you are researching that you aren’t the target audience for then your opinion on it may be not very important
historical research- looking at the history and development of something, or studying old examples of something and comparing with contemporary examples. An advantage to this is if you are researching something in order to create a product you can research how similar products have done and therefore see what it takes to be successful. A disadvantage is sometimes the history can be so out of date that it won’t have any effect on present day
rhetorical analysis- analysis of the techniques used to persuade the audience.
An advantage is that it will help you to brand yourself better if you wanted to market yourself to an audience. it also shows you what the media thinks of there audience and how they are persuaded.
Comparative analysis- research that compares/contrasts behaviors/media. An advantage is that you can compare products work with those that don’t and then analysis why. Knowing this information may help if you created a media product.
A disadvantage of this t
competitor analysis- close analysis and rating of a range of competitors products. An advantage of this is that it can keep you ahead of your competition by trying to always be better. gives a fuller view of the argument what you are up against and what you need to be better than. A disadvantage is that if you focus on one competitor to much you may become similar to them because there the only thing you look at apart from your own stuff
participant observation- is when the researcher participates in the activity in order to better understand. This can be very useful if you need your research to be documented as a fact you participating will add to your findings. if someone says something and you don't know if they are being honest or not you doing it may give you a better an idea. A disadvantage to this may occur if you are researching that you aren’t the target audience for then your opinion on it may be not very important
historical research- looking at the history and development of something, or studying old examples of something and comparing with contemporary examples. An advantage to this is if you are researching something in order to create a product you can research how similar products have done and therefore see what it takes to be successful. A disadvantage is sometimes the history can be so out of date that it won’t have any effect on present day
rhetorical analysis- analysis of the techniques used to persuade the audience.
An advantage is that it will help you to brand yourself better if you wanted to market yourself to an audience. it also shows you what the media thinks of there audience and how they are persuaded.
Comparative analysis- research that compares/contrasts behaviors/media. An advantage is that you can compare products work with those that don’t and then analysis why. Knowing this information may help if you created a media product.
A disadvantage of this t
competitor analysis- close analysis and rating of a range of competitors products. An advantage of this is that it can keep you ahead of your competition by trying to always be better. gives a fuller view of the argument what you are up against and what you need to be better than. A disadvantage is that if you focus on one competitor to much you may become similar to them because there the only thing you look at apart from your own stuff
Friday, 17 September 2010
one on one interviews
I had a one on one with the partner next to us to see the advantages and disadvantages and differences of a questionnaire and a face to face interviews
an advantage of doing face to face interviews is the follow up questions you may get based on the things the interviewee is saying
a disadvantage is that the people could be making up their answers and plus if your face to face they might be scared to tell the truth in case of repercussions that may happen where as when you do it as a questionnaire it is more safe for them sometimes when you are having a face to face discussion when the interviewee answers in a way you weren’t expecting and didn’t want then that might spoil the flow of the interview. however overall I think I would prefer one to ones because you are more likely to get more out of the interviewee because of the follow up questions and sometimes the fact that they might not want to write there long winded answers on paper it would take long or there isn’t enough space it would be so much easier to do it as an interview.
an advantage of doing face to face interviews is the follow up questions you may get based on the things the interviewee is saying
a disadvantage is that the people could be making up their answers and plus if your face to face they might be scared to tell the truth in case of repercussions that may happen where as when you do it as a questionnaire it is more safe for them sometimes when you are having a face to face discussion when the interviewee answers in a way you weren’t expecting and didn’t want then that might spoil the flow of the interview. however overall I think I would prefer one to ones because you are more likely to get more out of the interviewee because of the follow up questions and sometimes the fact that they might not want to write there long winded answers on paper it would take long or there isn’t enough space it would be so much easier to do it as an interview.
questionnares
In the beginning of the lesson we were given a questionnaire made by Miss which wasnt helpful to answering the question. After looking at it I realised a few things that are good and bad about questionnaires.
Disadvantages
A big disadvantage to it is when the questions don’t actually give you a fact that would help answer the aim of the questionnaire also if its bias questions. Infinite amount of answers i.e you can’t be specific and your conclusions won't be quantified when you are answering questions. You would have to print allot of copies to get a full rounded answer
Advantages
an advantage is that they are cheap to have a successful one you need to ask questions that will help you find out definite things also some people don’t like talking face to face or through focus groups so giving them the choice to write their feelings about a subject can be helpful.
when making a questionare you have to think about how are the questions gooing to help you and how are you going to sum up all the questions being answered after the person has filled out the questionare
Thats what a bad questionare would look like
1. Name:
2. Please circle which media forms you would buy a hard copy of (eg CD, DVD):
a. Music Games Film
3. Please circle which media forms you download:
a. Music Games Film
4. Where do you store your downloads? _____________________________________________________
5. Please circle which media forms you download without paying:
a. Music Games Film
6. How often do you download music?______________________________________________________
Thats what a good questionare would look like
about downloading and streaming habits among a particular age group)
1. Do you download music/films/games online?
2. How do you gain access to the constant change in websites that allow free downloading?
3. Do you think downloading should be made legal. Why
4. Have you ever downloaded online? If so how often do you do it
Once a week. Once a month Once in a while
5. What’s your current status? (circle the option that applies to you)
A. Employed B. Student C. un-employed
If employed please tick beside your......
. (20-30,000) . (30-40,000) .(40-50,000) .(50-60,000) (.60-PLUS)
Disadvantages
A big disadvantage to it is when the questions don’t actually give you a fact that would help answer the aim of the questionnaire also if its bias questions. Infinite amount of answers i.e you can’t be specific and your conclusions won't be quantified when you are answering questions. You would have to print allot of copies to get a full rounded answer
Advantages
an advantage is that they are cheap to have a successful one you need to ask questions that will help you find out definite things also some people don’t like talking face to face or through focus groups so giving them the choice to write their feelings about a subject can be helpful.
when making a questionare you have to think about how are the questions gooing to help you and how are you going to sum up all the questions being answered after the person has filled out the questionare
Thats what a bad questionare would look like
1. Name:
2. Please circle which media forms you would buy a hard copy of (eg CD, DVD):
a. Music Games Film
3. Please circle which media forms you download:
a. Music Games Film
4. Where do you store your downloads? _____________________________________________________
5. Please circle which media forms you download without paying:
a. Music Games Film
6. How often do you download music?______________________________________________________
Thats what a good questionare would look like
about downloading and streaming habits among a particular age group)
1. Do you download music/films/games online?
2. How do you gain access to the constant change in websites that allow free downloading?
3. Do you think downloading should be made legal. Why
4. Have you ever downloaded online? If so how often do you do it
Once a week. Once a month Once in a while
5. What’s your current status? (circle the option that applies to you)
A. Employed B. Student C. un-employed
If employed please tick beside your......
. (20-30,000) . (30-40,000) .(40-50,000) .(50-60,000) (.60-PLUS)
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
15/09/10
we were asked to do a few questions on finding figures this was my findings.
Q1.find out bbc3’s top five most viewed programmes this week?
A1. 5.edinburgh commedy fest 4.eastenders (thur) 3.Eastebders(fri) 2.dont tell the bride 1. Eastenders (tues)
A2. 526,216
Q3. On the RAJAR site in the listening figures menu find out what percentage of the population listened to radio 1 last month
A3. 51,618,000
Q4. Search a ‘search term’ trend for a celebrity on google identify a peak and connect to an actual event
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Research Methods
primary research means to get ther source of information directly from the main source. in the media surveys are one way used to get primary information. focus groups gather together and talk about what they like and dislike about a product. in films you may have screening sometimes the opinion of the audience is so important that if they dont like bits of a film, its likely to be re-shot focus groups are specifically designed for its target audience. in the media it is also common to have one on one interviews so that you can 'grill' your interviewee more group interviews are also done but one on ones are proven to be more effective. observation is very direct for example you empirical means research you can look and see i.e. observable ((e.g im going to do some empirical research))... contacting the producer of a media text is a good
chat room can be a good place to look for primary resources you could go there to find out how people feel about a new media project.
secondary - means to gather your sources based on someone elses thoughts, opinions or discoveries for example the media guardian, telegraph(technology) all online aswell !! radio 4 the media show podcast on wednsdays because it is what peoples said about things
Quantitative
we would use both methods for research for many reasons because of reliability helps whenit comes to analysis because
are magazines representing ethnic minorities fairly?
contact analysis is the form of research we used to come about our findings all of our informations was primary as we got our information straight from the source which was a magazine 'instyle'. after doing a count we found that the majority of people were white which showed that white people are represented most in THAT magazine. But we didnt answer the question because we only looked at one magazine, for us to fully answer the question we would have to look at other magazines and compare.
the good thing about the research we did was that it was all primary so there wasnt any doubt in the authenticity of our findings because we did emperical research we l
the bad thing about it was we only looked at one
chat room can be a good place to look for primary resources you could go there to find out how people feel about a new media project.
secondary - means to gather your sources based on someone elses thoughts, opinions or discoveries for example the media guardian, telegraph(technology) all online aswell !! radio 4 the media show podcast on wednsdays because it is what peoples said about things
Quantitative
we would use both methods for research for many reasons because of reliability helps whenit comes to analysis because
are magazines representing ethnic minorities fairly?
contact analysis is the form of research we used to come about our findings all of our informations was primary as we got our information straight from the source which was a magazine 'instyle'. after doing a count we found that the majority of people were white which showed that white people are represented most in THAT magazine. But we didnt answer the question because we only looked at one magazine, for us to fully answer the question we would have to look at other magazines and compare.
the good thing about the research we did was that it was all primary so there wasnt any doubt in the authenticity of our findings because we did emperical research we l
the bad thing about it was we only looked at one
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