Researching Young Children’s Everyday Uses of Technology in the Family Home
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1 Which qualitative method or methods are used in the paper?
This paper the research is aiming to study about the nature of play and learning
with technology in
the home of children from 3-4 years old. They did the research by making a home
visit. They develop a household case study of 14 families who has 3-4 years old
kids and made visit 6-9 times. The families were recruited by the nursery in
central Scotland by high and low socio-economic status.
Two researcher made a
home visit to each family and observe or do the field work. One research would
do an interview with the caregiver while another would engage with the children
and collecting data as the play partner. They tried to use the opportunity to
draw out data on the child’s play and preference that is not entirely in bias
by their parents.
In order to conduct
an interview with a child, they do the toy-tour instead. the toy tour is how
researcher ask the child on their second visit to give them a house tour taking
pictures and chatting about their favorite toy.
all the children in the study had encountered devices such as desktop
and notebook computers, mobile phones, MP3 players, televisions and games
consoles and the products or outputs—such as DVDs, websites, games and
interactive stories—that are viewed, read, played or created on these devices.
All the children also had technological toys, including play laptops or robotic
dogs. [1] The researcher also ask
their parent to do a mobile phone diary using their own mobile phone, shooting
video and send them 6 times a week with picture reporting their child’s
activities.
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Which are the benefits and
limitations of using these methods?
The benefit of this method is that the researcher can see participants in their natural scenes doing their activities. This method also created the opportunity to gather the richly detailed data. However, there are limitations to the method. The size of their sample might not be as big to do a generalization as the method require a lot of time to collect data with each participants (family).
In this paper the
researcher gained full consents in advance from parents. And having parents
reporting their children activities. Therefore the control over information
reported maybe weak.
3 What did you learn about qualitative methods from reading the paper?
3 What did you learn about qualitative methods from reading the paper?
First, I learn that qualitative methods required a lot of time to complete with one participant. As it is an in-dept research the observation has to take a lot times and include in many angles. For example, In this research they’re not only observe in their own view, they also interview caregiver of that child and also ask parents to report activities of their child in their own view. And this can also help reduce the biasness in the observation.
4. Which are the main methodological problems of the study? How could the use of the qualitative method or methods have been improved?
In this research they are concerned about the ethical issue conducting of research in the family home and how to establish consent from a child who does not understand the concept of research. Most of the approach they used to collect data involved in video taking, picture taking. The challenge is how to turn these visual base information to present in text base report of research. Therefore they mentioned that it is much easier to collect data then take it into analysis.
Reference:
1. Researching
Young Children's Everyday Uses of Technology in the Family Home - Edinburgh
Research Explorer. (n.d.). Retrieved October 8, 2015, from
http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/researching-young-childrens-everyday-uses-of-technology-in-the-family-home(2904cd76-475f-4a8c-a43b-132c90a42415).html
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Read the following article:
Eisenhardt, K. M.
(1989). Building Theories from Case Study Research. Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 532-550.
Selected paper: Government and Social Media: A Case Study of 31 Informational World Cities (link)
1. Briefly explain to a first year
university student what a case study is.
Study case is the
particular selected sample of the study that is related or use to investigate
your topic research or research problem, the way of study your research topic
by narrowing down and looking at single setting. Study case can be a study of
some situation, individuals, a small group of
participants, or a group as a whole.[1]
Study case helps you collect data by many methods such as archives, interview, questionnaires and observations. Therefore it can be either qualitative or quantitative. Aim of theory is to provide description, to test theory, or to build theory.
For example, the research paper about government and social media investigate in case study of 31 informational cities in the world by observing at their government website, social media account, the quantity of published content online, and the reactions of users (citizens).
2. Use the "Process of Building Theory from Case Study
Research" (Eisenhardt, summarized in Table) to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your selected paper.
Case study allows researchers to begin with broad questions like ‘government and social media’ and narrows their sample focus to the official social media accounts representing the government of the 31 cities. Research can look into each government social media in detailed of what kind of content post, when it is post , and even be able to check the backlink to each website in detail.
However, using case study to can be difficult to analyze the finding. as in this paper they try to find the usage of social media in each countries by the government. But government in some cities using different kind of social media and cannot actually be compared. The data availability in each of the case study might be different which make it hard to analyze. Another limitation is how to indicate the real result when things did not start at the same date. One social media might be start using by government in 2008 but new social media might be starting using in recent year therefore it’s even harder to compare things.
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