What can we do with fieldwork?
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You
can survey, interview, observe different things, or get documents. I think for
my topic of online social networks and there advantages and disadvantages to
safety I would use a survey.
Advantages?
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Using
a survey I think would let me get different peoples points of view that are for
or against social networks and their privacy settings.
Practical considerations?
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How
different people's views will be. With the different age groups I think it will
differ in opinion a lot. The younger generation I think will be for the social networks
not having safety locks or as much privacy! But the older generations that have
children will want privacy blocks so that they can feel that their children are
safe when using the sites. But will the social networks want the safety blocks
because will it push the younger generations that are using them away.
How to integrate fieldwork and
secondary sources?
- confirm an established point
-that
putting safety blocks on social networks might make the users not want to use
anymore.
Survey!
Why:
- need
statistics about people's habits, activities,
- get
a range of opinions or experiences
- generalizations
and analysis about typical behaviors, attitudes, norms
Who:
·
define
your target audience/group;
- control
their selection /sample
- getting
a good sample?
How:
- random?
- balance
- ask
questions to help sort out
Good Questions:
- clear
purpose??? what do I need to know???
- simpler
and shorter is better
- age-appropriate
and neutral wording
- make
them relevant ...
- make
sure questions are not threatening
Kinds:
- Yes,
no; open-ended; scale? multiple choice
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