- What kind of topics are you interested in researching?
A: About technology and its impact on society, how everything is changing.. in particular: how it can help to have a more committed society in the long run?
- What initial research questions might be starting to emerge for you?
A: how technology can help people´s development?, how to make citizens participate in the long term? technology and empowerment?
- What are you interested in researching - people, groups, communities, documents, images, organisations?
Everything, but I think I would start with specific people and groups and/or organisations, within certain context.
- Do you have an initial ideas for the kinds of methods that might help you to gather useful knowledge in your area of interest?
Social Network Analysis, focus groups, maybe ethnography??
- What initial questions do you have about those methods? What don't you understand yet?
How to apply it (gather data)? and how to create sociograms?
- Do you perceive any potential challenges in your initial ideas: either practical challenges, such as gaining access to the area you want to research, or the time it might take to gather data; or conceptual challenges; such as how the method you are interested in can produce 'facts', 'truths', or 'valuable knowledge' in your chosen area?
Everything: practical challenges, gather data, how to produce knowledge...
