I’ve
made 4 comments each week on blog postings concerning the different themes
regarding theory and method for media technology. Below are the
comments I’ve made on other peoples postings during the course:
A lot of theories for designing a
platform for the user to grasp the theory about a healthy diet. This seems like
a good example where it is important to follow up on the users of this computer
game and see if the theories used when designing the game did actually work as
intended or if the theories have to then be modified. Interesting study.
The theory presented in the article
you have chosen is interesting and I think it's true that spending time on
online relations rather than in real world could be at the expense of one
another. However I also think that there somewhere is a tipping point for how
much time one should spend on the relation to a person online. To a certain
extent it could surely be beneficial but as explore in your article; it could
have negative effects.
I think the theories taken up in the
paper you have chosen is interesting, mainly because they are very hard to
describe and we humans often doesn't think about how they work. There is much
going on with our expressions, thereof things we don't think about. It's
interesting with explanations for why we sometimes instantly react like we do,
without knowing or thinking about why we do it. Here is a YouTube-video about
something similar, that maybe could go under facial expressions; http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-qDi7IbYGVY
The idea that the online
communities and services can define who we are as a person is fascinating. The
thought is a bit scary but true, since we of course turn to the things in the
online world that interests us.
Your articles states a
very interesting question and I think that many people, myself included are
much more selective when choosing media. That is of course because of the vast
supplies of different medias compared to let's say 50 years ago when online
streaming services and youtube and so on didn't exist. But maybe we take high
qulity media more for granted now and have become discerning so to speak. Some
may say that it is undermining the business and some may say that it is just
part of change, and our behaviors.
The topic of your article
is interesting and the fact that Facebook has changed the default privacy
settings time and again also makes it harder to control our own privacy. I
think this can affect many users. It has also happened that people have lost
their jobs because they have written inappropriate things about their employer
on Facebook and so that it has been seen by them. So I think it's important to
maybe think twice about these privacy issues.
I think the article you
have chosen seems very interesting. I like the idea of categorizing music
genres. I think Spotify and other music databases could benefit from having
this kind of sectioning. Maybe one could go a step further and divide it into
music for specific moods etc.
I find it somewhat cool to
look back at thees kind of notalgic research when it comes to the internet and
social medias ( or whatever counterpart they had back in 2001). I think we're
being effected more and more of the media, but mostly in a good way. Since
there's so many medias to choose from theese days it's easier to get different
viewing angles on subjects and there is less chance of persuaded or manipulated
by the media.
It's interesting that
the article uses "Grounded theory" and actually notes it as a method.
Of course, it's a type of qualitative method and one that is in my opinion
carried out in many research surveys without being mentioned as a method.
I think that they maybe could have
designed and used better suited qualitative methods; I got the feeling that
they mostly used quantitative methods and then tried to derive both quantitative
and qualitative results from it.
The research methods
seem very rigorous in your chosen article and they also gave some interesting
results. This got me thinking though, if there could ever be negative aspects
of using too many methods without the time-consuming aspect.
An interesting study
with interviews as qualitative method. Even though there were only 28
interviews carried out, I think that the study also could deliver some
quantitative data although using a qualitative method. Like distribution of
political views among the participants etc.
I suppose it's true that using mixed
methods often give good results! But I also think that one shoud chose methods
with care and not spend too much time and resources on something that maybe
gives redundant data.
Very thorough method
here but I think they also could have used close observations as additional
qualitative method for when ICT was used.
Seems like a very
appropriate method is chosen in your article. Since the incentives for making
podcasts probably can be of very many different kinds, it is natural to use
open ended questions as described. But the more open ended questions there is,
the more it's leaning towards having a discussion and for that matter it is
probably better doing face to face interviews. And maybe it would have been so
even for this research, although it of course wasn't possible in this case,
since the geographic separation.
I think your question
in this posting is very interesting; No matter how you look at it, all research
is of course given a more or less subjective mark by the researcher and I also
think that it can be more prominent when using qualitative methods. I think
it's therefore important to use several different methods for concluding the
research. And so the problem is looked at from different angles so to speak.
The research paper
you've chosen addresses a very interesting question but maybe television is nowadays
replaced by other online media to an extent. However, the research is
interesting, another qualitative method to take on the same thought could be to
look at what programs there are being broadcasted and maybe analyze them
against some key criteria for educational purpose.
Funny video! I also
think you've chosen a good research paper that is a perfect example of why it's
good to use mixed methods. Having a specific target group can have both pros
and cons depending on what is trying to be achieved. It can be hard to apply
the research in a broader perspective but it can also generate really interesting
and useful results. I think however that the research done in the paper you've
chosen is applicable to many types of organizations and companies. And it's
maybe why the article has many citations and a high impact factor.
I think it's hard to
generalize media technology and consequently say it is hard evaluating it. I
think it depends on the subject of evaluation and for different things to be
evaluated, different methods are needed. But I agree with you that the
definition of media technology is a big concern in the question for the theme.
I think design research in the form of evaluating a concept or a prototype is
one concrete example of how to define the research and also help the possible
user's get a better understanding of the technology as well.
This solution can
maybe also be used for collaborative tasks or in public areas where several
people are gathered in the same place. This solution I imagine however require
quite large screens, so for the applicable area the cost could maybe go up. But
the number of people using it and what they are using it for is another good
subject for design research, in the certain cases respectively. Interesting!
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