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HOW DOES THE CONSUMPTION OF THE PHOTO -SHARING APP,
INSTAGRAM, DIFFER BETWEEN THE AGE GROUPS (12 -17 ) AND (18 -25 )?
A Proposed Research Study By:
Brittney Darner, Rhys Jones, Fajer Alvahar, and Alina Kortmann
RESEARCH
Part One
SOURCES WE HAVE PULLED FROM
Living in Virtual Communities by Denise Carter
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste by Pirerre Bourdieu
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
Tangibility of Music by Maria Styvén
Burmingham Center
LIVING IN VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
BY DENISE CARTER
• Methods she used: • Questionnaires• Semi-structured interviews • Open-ended questions
• Past studies:• Rowlings (1983)- studied
friendship• Giddens (1991, 1999)-
studied free- floating pure relationships
D I S T I N C T I O N: A S O C I A L C R I T I Q U E O F T H E J U D G M E N T O F TA S T E BY P I E R R E
B O U R D I E U
“Idea’s of ideology
AL O NE TO GETHER BY SHER RY TU RKL E
Culture of Distraction
“Connectivity offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship”
Dumbs down communication
BIRMINGHAM CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL
STUDIES
Ethnographic Methods
Socio Economic Background
RHYS SLIDE
DESIGN
Part Two
METHODS WE WOULD USE:
Quantitative Questionnaires
Qualitative Questionnaires
Focus Groups
Semi-structured Interviews
QUANTITATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE
Online questionnaire
Anonymous
Participants choose between two age brackets (12-17) and (18-24) and gender
Look into having questionnaire on Facebook news feeds via paid advertisement
Questions we would ask would be more generic and broad as to get a statistical sense of the Instagram users
QUALITATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE
Face-to-face survey’s
Participants would be told that their responses would be used for research and have them sign a release form
These surveys would take place with students on campuses in the older age bracket (18-24) to avoid ethical issues when surveying children
FOCUS GROUPS
Focus groups would have about 3-5 participants in them
Focus groups will be separated by age group and gender
Questions would be more open-ended to encourage story telling (drawing from Denise Carter’s research)
Groups including children under the age of 17 would have signed approval by their parents as well as consent from the minor themselves
Us, the interviews, would have been CRV checked and documentation provided to families
SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS
Will be conducted one-on-one with someone from each age bracket as well as gender
The interviews will be open-ended to encourage story-telling
Participants will have a signed consent form, and the same rules apply for minors as with the focus groups
ETHICS
Part Three
MINORS • All interviews with minors will be
conducted with full permission from the parents as well as the participants
• All minors will have a signed consent form from their guardian
• We, the interviewers, will have been CRB checked prior to the interviews and will have full documentation provided to families
• All questions asked will be printed out and given to guardians
• Minors can withdrawal from the study at any point in time
ALL OTHER PARTICIPANTS
A packet will be created for those partaking in the focus groups and semi-structured interviews emplaning why we are doing the research, what it will be used for, and how we will document their answers
A consent form for them to sign
A list of possible questions they may have about the study and answers
An explanation saying that the participants may withdrawal from the study at any point in time and their answers will not be used
THANK YOU!
#HaveAGoodDay