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What is the refined research question that you are setting out to answer? (Please be specific in your research topic)

Is our News media companies really not fair?

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.)

In Hong Kong, the citizens always said that our news media company are not fair. Some of them are controlled by China and some of them are controlled by Foreign forces. In Lunar New Year’s Day, police and FEHD refused unlicensed cooked food hawkers sell their food in Mong Kong, causing conflict. On the next day, the news company are using the different ways to describe the issue. So, I am interested in finding out that whether they are really unfair or our citizens misunderstood them. Morever, why they have to do so or why can they do so.

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

Example: In-depth interviews with five immigrants from Mainland China

1)  Analysis the background of most of the famous news media in Hong Kong will be conducted, comparison of the points of views of the same events, the focusing news types, and the background of the owners of the different news media will be compared in the research, he research will try to figure out the relationship between and political economy approach media ownership and media content.

2) An online survey will be hold and at least 50 copies of questionnaire will be delivered to Hong Kong Citizen randomly, to know which media they would like to read, how they feel the credibility of it and how they feel about the Hong Kong government.

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.

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List of Hong Kong newspaper

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%A0%B1%E7%B4%99%E5%88%97%E8%A1%A8

Public comments on Hong Kong News Media

http://www.pentoy.hk/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83/s270/2015/04/24/%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E6%8C%87%E6%95%B8%E7%9A%84%E9%9D%A2%E9%9D%A2%E8%A7%80/

Some of the possible factor(s) on why the News Media are not fair

(Please also complete the following parts in the hard copy of your research proposal if you are going to do ethnographic study and interviews in a location where you may encounter potential dangers. Otherwise you can leave the following parts blank.)

What physical resources (e.g. camera) will this primary research require?

No / Yes (Please specify):

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)

Place(s):
Date and Time:

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 / Yes (Please provide name and contact):

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 / Yes:

Name: PUN Shuk Kwan, Audrey

HKU SPACE Student Number: 10644377