Formulate a research question that can be answered using digital visual media analysis and design a research plan to address it. Carry out at least three hours of research to begin addressing your research question. Note: these three hours don’t include the hours spent on developing the research question and the research plan (nor the hours spent on writing up your report)!
Write a 2,000 word report reflecting on how you developed your research plan and how you began addressing your research question in your three hours of initial research. The report should cover the following:
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A short introduction describing your research topic and why it is important, with reference to relevant literature.
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This section should include your research question and the literature, theoretical framework or concept(s) that it draws on, with relevant references.
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A description of your research plan. This section should cover things like:
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why digital visual media analysis is suitable for addressing your question
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Description of how you plan to configure your digital visual media analysis research process step by step to address your research question.
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How you are planning to curate your collection of images, eg:
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platform features and queries you’ll be using
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how you will capture the data and organise it.
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(annotated) screenshots of platform features, queries and results for illustrative purposes
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Etc
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How you are planning to analyse your collection of images, eg:
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what method you’ll be using to analyse your collection of images
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why that method is suitable to address your research question
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how you will configure the method to analyse your corpus
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etc
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Not only descriptions but justifications of key research configuration decisions, eg:
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why focus on your chosen platform feature
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why use a particular query strategy/query
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why your chosen method to analyse images is suitable to address your research question
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etc.
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Discussion of the most significant ethical considerations that informed your work at this stage and how, with reference to relevant literature.
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References to relevant literature (eg research methods literature).
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Outcomes of your minimum three hours of research and reflections on this process. This section should cover things like:
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description of collected materials
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any initial observations and results from your analyses.
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description of any initial findings, i.e. what you learned from your three hours of research that can help you formulate an answer to your research question.
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Any source and research materials that help to illustrate the outcomes of your initial research (e.g. annotated screenshots, tables, spreadsheet screenshots, etc).
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Reflection on any modifications you might make to your research plan and research question to refine, improve and better align them in light of the three hours of research you conducted.
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Discussion of the most significant ethical considerations that informed your work at this stage and how, with reference to relevant literature.
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Any concluding reflections on your project and the methods used, including what worked well, any challenges you encountered and any reflections on how you might anticipate and overcome these in the future.
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An appendix including an illustrative selection of materials you gathered as part of your corpus and materials you produced as part of your analysis (eg annotated screenshots of interfaces with queries, screenshots of spreadsheets, coding schemas, etc.).
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Use six reference sources from the literature I gave you