Research Diary 2 - Statement of Intent

The research topic that I interested in is the relationship between media and violence. And the summary statement is how the level of violence of the content of the video game will affect teenage game player towards the acceptability of violence.

The reason of I interested in analysing this topic because of the debate between the violence game and the real crime is become a hot issue in the society. Many people think that there is a strong relation between the violence games and the crime. But also there are some noises disagree that. So I want to measure that is the violence game really affected the game player. If yes, how is the level of affected towards the game player.

 I will use the qualitative research to analyse this topic because of I can collect the detailed and rich result about how the audience feel and thinking about these kind of violence game. Also this method can let me have opportunity to observe and interview the game players. It is easy to measure how the acceptability of the player towards these violence games and sum up the level of violence. So I can analyse this topic accurately.

And the method I will use is provide a questionnaire to the interviewee first. After that I will provide a violence game to them. At last will also have a interview and questionnaire to them to measure the attitudes of the interviewee towards the violence have changed or not. With this method I can analyse that the acceptability to the violence of the players have change or not. And we will record the level of acceptability to the interviewee before they play the violence game we provided. And then we can compare the acceptability to the violence before and after playing the game we provided.

And the sampling method I will use is the snowball sampling. With this method I can find more teenagers who come from different society and culture environment. That is a advantage that the result will become more reliability.

Name: Law Hoi Yin, Billy

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