What
is the refined research question that you are setting out to answer? (Please be
specific in your research topic)
My research topic is ‘How do Hong Kong
golden forum construct an online identity for local teenager?’
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How
does this develop themes and debates explored within the lectures of this
module? (Please put down the revised short introduction to your project based
on the one in blog 2. Remember that the introduction should include the purpose
of your research project, significance and key concept(s) that may be useful
for your analysis.)
With the development of social media,
online community has become a social aggregation and imagined community.
People always discuss the social expectations and share their opinion on the
cyberspace. Some new and special communication style is developed on the online
community. They think they are community even though they do not understand each
other. They find their own online identity from imagined community. Therefore,
the purpose of my research is study about how the online community constructs
an online identity for local teenager and I am going to focus on the popular
online community in Hong Kong, Golden Forum. Most of the teenagers always use
this forum. There is some unusual communication such as the users call other
as ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. The forum as the imagined community, they can find
the similar interest and opinion from the forum.
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What
critical methodologies are you going to use? How are you going to produce the
evidence you’ll need to answer your research question?
I am going to do the qualitative
research, in-depth interviews with 5-8 users from the Golden Forum. The basic
questions are ‘Why would you want to become the member of the forum?’ ‘What
is your feeling and opinion about Golden forum?’ ‘Do you have any profound
thing/event when you are using the forum? And what is it?’ ‘Do you think you
find your online identity from the forum?’. According to the answer of
interviewees, I will ask other relevant questions during the interview.
Moreover, I will find out some special
event/discussion of Golden Forum as the example to explain my research
question. Those examples can show they construct their online identity from the forum. (Source: evchk.wikia.com. This website records the most
event of the Golden forum.)
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Now
you should have some references in mind. If so, please put down a short
reference list at the end of this blog so that you have a better plan of what
articles that you are go to read for the project.
Vanasco, J. (2007). Online identities and
social mapping: II Online Identity Theory – Meta-identities and identity
facts.
P. Seargeant, C. Tagg. (2014). The
language of social media: Identity and community on the internet. Springer.
Anderson, B. (Eds).(1991). Imagined
Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. New York,
NY.
Turkle, S. (2011). Life on the screen:
Identity in the age of the internet. New York: Simon & Schuster
Paperbacks.
Siu, P. (2014, October 31). How social
media shapes occupy: Web forum HKGolden.com takes off. South China Morning
Post.
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What
physical resources (e.g. camera) will this primary research require?
Yes. Mobile phone for voice recording.
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Where
and when exactly is this primary research going to take place?
(NB
for health and safety reasons, we need to know the EXACT locations at which
this research will take place and the EXACT times that you’ll be working there)
Interview time: 16-22 March.
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Which
key persons (e.g. family members, trustworthy friends, business owners, etc.)
have agreed to help and support you in carrying out this research?
No
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Self-assessment
of risk:
Is
this research exercise likely to expose you to any health and safety risks or
any risk to property? (If the answer is yes, please specify the risks)
(NB
these might include: exposure to theft by using a camera in a public place;
journeying into an unknown area of town; entering into people’s homes; carrying
out ethnographies in places in which excessive alcohol consumption or drug use
takes place; etc.)
No
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Name: Tam Yi Ki
Dear Yi-ki, The proposal is clear enough. Pretty nice! Please start doing the interviews. In the meantime, please read the article for the topic "imagined communities". This is something that you need to reference for the theoretical framework. Critical concepts need to be applied in your final work.
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