Blog 3

What is the refined research question that you are setting out to answer?

How the Hong Kong teenagers consumer cosplay culture?

How does this develop themes and debates explored within the lectures of this module?

In my research project, my topic is about the cosplay culture of Hong Kong teenagers.

I choose cosplay culture to my project’s themes is because I have a lot of interest to Japanese ACG culture, many people will touch that, for example animation, Manga or some games. And then, some teenagers will have special actions to express their love. Such as make the Dōjinshi, Itasha or join the Comic World HK, C3HK and Rainbow Gala etc. But in those actions, I hope to explored is cosplay culture. My research project will choose that is because I have some friends is cos-player, it will make me more easily to finish my project.

So, the aim of my research is to explore the cosplay culture of Hong Kong teenagers, in this project, I hope to know how the HK teenagers to thing about the cosplay culture. And the most important, is need to interview the cosplayer, question them why they will choose to be a cosplayer? How difficult they will have? How they think the cosplay? In that question, I will get the ideas of the cultural hegemony in Hong Kong.

What critical methodologies are you going to use? How are you going to produce the evidence you’ll need to answer your research question?

 In my research project, I will use the qualitative research to collect the data, this research make my question have the answers become in-depth information, the teenagers’ in-depth ideas. In the first, I need to design the questionnaire, in the questionnaire I will ask them about their view of cosplay, what the significance with cosplay of them, what reason make they start cosplay and what affect with they become a cosplayer.

Name: Leung Yu Hin

HKU SPACE Student Number: 10641734