Thursday, February 25, 2010

RJA #6c: Field Research Options

As far as field research for my topic of, psychological effects of video games on children, I have been mostly considering doing an interview. One interview that I had contemplated is with my psychology 1001 professor. The interview would consist of a list of questions that I would come up with relative to my topic, and then schedule a place and time to conduct the interview, and whether it be done via e-mail, in person or on the phone. Another source I had recently considered would be finding an expert on Allexperts and submit my list of questions to them. A third option that I have considered but am not so sure about is actually going online and submitting a survey to be done on the topic, or even going onto xbox live, which is where you can find "gamers" and survey people I found on there. The last idea I do not think will work very well since they do not use their real names on there and would probably be pretty reluctant on giving out that information. Also the validity of the results would be biased since I'm sure they are all pretty pro video game since that is the only reason they are on that network. All in all, I feel that the interview would get me the most useful and relevant information for my research.

1 comment:

  1. That sounds like a good plan, be sure and take good notes for your research.

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