Reflection on module and Feedback…

Everything I learned from this module was new to me, and it has now encouraged me to be more aware of the range of research methods within the Media. The Behind the Scene we had to create gave me the chance to express my creativity thoroughly and also interact with my group members nearly everyday of the week. …

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References……

Saukko, P. (2003) Doing Research in Cultural Studies, London: Sage. Week 1. – ‘Writing Culture and Recording Culture’ In: Makagon and Neumann (2009) Recording Culture London: Sage Week 2. – ‘What is Research’ In Berger, A. A., Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2011) London: Sage Week 3.  – ‘What is Ethnography’ In Hammersley, Martyn and Atkinson, Paul (2007) Ethnography. …

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Group meeting….Task 5 Researching the Sensory

For our last weeks task before compiling all our footages and finally making our behind the 30 min behind the scene, we where asked to as a group is to identify ‘a smell’ that is significant and meaningful. We were then asked to  identify how we can communicate, know, and say something meaningful about the smell. …

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Week 8-Reasearching the Sensory……

  Todays lecture was structured on what are our scenes? and what is sensory ethnography?..... We spoke about Aristotelian hierarchical order of scenes and that how humans senses is Sight Hearing Smell Whilst animals Taste Touch Research is an embodied process, and creates an awareness of how our bodies feel and experience the contexts that …

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Group meeting….Task 5 Researching People….

For this weeks task we were asked to identify the kinds of knowledge that you can produce by conducting interviews and focus groups. We then chose one of these methods to address the issue of friendship in social media and create an interview schedule/focus group agenda and conduct your interview/focus group with carefully justified participant(s). As …

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Week 7- Researching people…….

  Todays task was about researching people. In this class we covered Interviews Topic Guides Focus Groups Practicalities Advantages/Disadvantages When to use Focus Groups A formal meeting or conversation such as on conducted by a reporter where statements are recorded is referred to as Interview. Interviews doesn't mean you have to be face to face …

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Group Meeting….Task 4 Researching the Visual…

                                     The task set for this week was to analyze a fictional TV program of your choice (drama or sitcom) to determine whether its representation of diversity can be considered meaningful based on Mary Beltran’s criteria.  For this weeks task …

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Week 6-Reasearching the Visual….

Today's topic was one my favorite topics. I really enjoyed having a lecture about this topic which was very interesting. Researching the visual was what we studied in class today. Analyzing the television was talked to about in the class it was discovered that a television was characterized as multifaceted medium of communication,needs and an …

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Group meeting…Task 3 Researching the Digital…

For this weeks task we were asked to research our own experiences of engaging with digital media. Drawing on our knowledge of other research methods,  we were asked to create a group vlog on ‘being a media student’ for our Behind the scene footage. For this weeks class me and my group members decided that every …

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