You are being invited to take part in this in-depth interview because as the investigator of this study, I want to approach and understand this topic through a professor’s lens and standpoint. In addition, your role as an arts professor, being equipped with critical thinking skills and familiarity with the social science/humanities discourse will fit perfectly for this qualitative interview. We appreciate you taking the time to participate in the interview. This interview will help to learn more about how individuals use internet, the gratifications received through its usage and our relationships and presentation of self in the digital world.
This interview is being conducted as part of course requirements for Sociology 382, a course on qualitative
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You have the right to refuse to participate in this study. If you choose to participate, you may still choose to withdraw from the study at any time.
During the interview you will be asked a series of questions about your internet usage, gratifications you felt through using the internet or social media, your presentation of self in the digital context and virtual or real social relationships that are being mediated through the usage. The interview is expected to run from 45 minutes in length.
The interview will be audiotaped, however, your responses will be kept confidential, and no one outside of Dr. Pentecost and myself will see the transcribed interview. No individually identified information will be reported. Names, dates and locations will be suppressed or pseudonyms will be used. The recorded interview will be submitted to Dr. Pentecost, who will store all material for six months in a locked filing cabinet, and then destroyed. Given that the interviews are for a class project, no secondary use of the recorded interviews will take place. The interviews will be analyzed in an undergraduate paper and will not be made publicly
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You do not need to answer any questions if you do not want to.
Second, you may withdraw from the interview at any point if you feel uncomfortable.
Third, since the nature of the interview may be personal, the participant has the absolute freedom to choose where they want the interview to be conducted so that they feel the most comfortable.
The potential benefits to the participant from their participation in this research area are gaining a better understanding of themselves and how they represent themselves in the digital world.
Although there is no monetary payment for taking the time to be in this study, a thank you card will be issued to the participant after the study, this is being given to you by way of appreciation.
If you have any concerns or complaints about your rights as a research participant and/or your experiences while participating in this interview, contact the Research Participant Complaint Line in the UBC Office of Research Ethics at 604-822-8598 or if long distance email RSIL@ors.ubc.ca or call toll free
The internet is used today for many reasons. It is a platform for people to stay in touch with others, entertain themselves and complete work tasks. In the following articles, “Internet Addiction Left my Brother Homeless” by Winston Ross and “The Pointlessness of Unplugging” by Casey N. Cep, the internet is discussed very deeply, but in two varying lights. In the article by Cep the author is writing from personal experiences and research. In the article by Ross the author is writing merely from opinions. Another major difference in the two pieces is the main idea of the articles. In Cep’s article the main idea of his work is the idea of Unplugging from the internet. In Ross’s article, rather, the main point of his work is to discuss internet
Williamson, T., Milne, B., & Savage, S. (2009). International Developments in Investigative Interviewing. Willan Publishing: Portland.
Millions out of the population world wide, has let the internet dominate over them in abrogating forms. The internet can be useful in several ways, such as academic, researching, gaining more knowledge out of a topic, a person has found interesting. On the other hand, it can also be used in negative ways, by drowning the person to surf the web more than 3 hours. Not acknowledging the situation that can lead them too. Such as excluding them, from the outside world. Several may discover the beauty of the internet, as others are pulled aside into the dark route, by themselves. William Gibson, author of the article, “The Net Is a Waste of Time” demonstrates the differences on how technology has involved more than a decade, and the influences being
The term methodology refers to the way in which we approach problems and try to find answers and in social science, it applies to how research is conducted, our assumptions, interest and purposes shape which methodology we choose (Steven, 2016:3).Qualitative research is understanding people from their own perspectives, their viewpoint and experiencing reality as they experience it. Qualitative research has many approaches or methods of collecting data and one of them is an interview which I have chosen to explain further based on it as a method of collecting data. The interview is the most common method of data gathering used in qualitative research and it is used in deferent ways by every main theoretical and methodological approach.
The issue of the Internet having psychological benefits has two sides, as does any issue. James E. Katz and Philip Aspden present the yes side of this issue. Katz and Aspden used a national random telephone survey to back up their side on the issue. The survey conducted in October of 1995 compiled the individuals who took the survey into five specific groups. The groups consisted of those not aware of the Internet, non-users aware of the Internet, former users, recent users-those who started using the Internet in 1995, and longtime users-those who started using the Internet prior to 1995. The survey questioned community involvement (community, leisure, and religious,) involvement in existing communities (face to face, family, Internet,) and friendship formation (Internet and beyond.) They drew the conclusion that the Internet is helping to form new friendships and social relationships. Therefore, giving people the chance to join new groups and organizations other than those in their own community.
In this paper, I will define quantitative and qualitative research methods and provide examples in the context of social issues which will hopefully provide insight into how this methods are properly applied.
In this week’s podcast, the interviewee was Rory McGloin who is an assistant professor here at the University of Connecticut. His research mainly focuses on the effects of media, primarily video games which is emphasized in this podcast by “looking at how a variety of contextual features, whether video games or other types of virtual environments, effect people’s perception of the experience,” (McGloin). The role of technology in our lives was spoken about all through the listening indicating there was a time where education and information was limited to everyone, until the internet came along. The internet has unleashed countless possibilities for users all over the world and has allowed us as individuals to have another facet of our reality.
Liamputtong, P. & Ezzy, D., 2005, Qualitative research methods, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Victoria, pp. 12-31.
It is extremely vital to use an appropriate language and let the participant know that you are fully engage and listening carefully to the response. The strength of the interviewer-participant relationship is perhaps the most important aspect of a qualitative research. The quality of this relationship likely affects participants’ self disclosure, including the depth of information they may share about their experience of a problem. In general, the interview requires tremendous amount of knowledge and responsibility, practice and experience. To conduct such interviews, one must posses’ tremendous knowledge as well as the ability to clearly communicate
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Technology is changing how we think and act at younger ages. The term “technology” doesn’t only mean manufacturing processes and equipment necessary for production, it also defines a social space and could be a social problem which makes a real impact on social reality. Different types of social software affect a variety of aspects and have both positive and negative impacts. It's important to be aware of how a digitally-driven life is changing our education, sense of self, relationships, social interaction, consumerism, and ways of doing business around the world.
In this generation, everyone, mostly young adults, are glued to technology. We see people walking around, looking at the ground as if they have a ball and chain dangling from their necks. We see people sitting on their chairs and looking at their computer screens long enough for their backs to hurt and their eyes water from the bright screen. People addicted to the Internet are those who pay attention to a virtual world more than their own lives. Internet addiction has corrupted people’s social lives, prevented their maturation, and induced negative behaviors. In “Internet Addiction,” Greg Beato expresses how the Internet has corrupted lives and should be added to the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Behaviors.” If we continue our
The author of this paper considers the cultural and human impact of the Internet as a new way of life, a remarkable and undeniable technology, focusing on the positives and negatives advantages and consequences on our societal world.
In recent years, technology has become the most used and preferred way of communicating, extending across many platforms. All of these programs, such as e-mail, instant messaging, social networking websites in conjunction with text messaging and the ability to access all of these entities on the go, have come into fruition based on the immense and widely found growth made in technological advancements that have occurred in our society. With this, a massive change has developed in regards to referencing how we as humans engage in communication. We have now shifted into a society that relies heavily on the existence of digital communication, whether it be through the means of a mobile device (text messaging) or the Internet (Facebook, Twitter,
The internet is a crucial part of the life of the everyday person in the constantly connected world of 2016 and I am no different. A large portion of my average day is spent on the internet in one form or another and it is very rare to go a whole day without connecting to the internet. My time on the internet is used in a variety of ways from playing video games online to studying an academic subject. In this paper I will explore how I use the internet and critically analyze what I do on the internet and how that affects me and how I present my digital self.