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...
At the moment your area of interest is very wide - perhaps you could narrow it down to a specific group of people or a specific location and maybe also narrow down the forms of technology you research? For example, I researched the use of Twitter with a specific group of post-graduate students and used social network analysis to look at how they learned through networked connections.
I agree with Noreen's comment, and I also perceive a sense of “must be” in your wording (e.g. ‘how it can help to have a more committed society in the long run?... how technology can help people´s development?’) that I am not sure is proper in “social science research”, as if you were less interested in knowing and more on modifying.
At the moment your area of interest is very wide - perhaps you could narrow it down to a specific group of people or a specific location and maybe also narrow down the forms of technology you research? For example, I researched the use of Twitter with a specific group of post-graduate students and used social network analysis to look at how they learned through networked connections.
ResponderEliminarI agree with Noreen's comment, and I also perceive a sense of “must be” in your wording (e.g. ‘how it can help to have a more committed society in the long run?... how technology can help people´s development?’) that I am not sure is proper in “social science research”, as if you were less interested in knowing and more on modifying.
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