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Week One
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Course Structure
• 1hr Lecture / 2hr Lab/Seminar
• 100% attendance to Lectures and Labs
• Student Consultation Monday and
Thursday by Email appointment
• Students are required to fulfil the
attendance requirements, the online and
class participation requirements and submit
all assessments To Pass The Course.
Assessments
1. Information Search Assignment
3. 2x Blog Report
5. Online Participation
6. Class participation
Assessments
1. Information Search Assignment – E-waste
Friday, March 26 - Week 4 by 4pm posted to your
class blog and email notification. 15%
asking questions.
http://groups.google.com/group/digc102
What is Research?
A Research Process
1. Deciding what to research: formulate and revise the
research question
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Looking
Stuff Up
and
Finding
Things
OUt
Types of Sources
1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
Primary Sources – are those are produced
by the object of your study: the film or
video game, the government policy
document or legal summary.
• Experimental Research
• Surveys
• Content Analysis
• Ethnography
• Discourse Analysis
Qualitative and
Quantitative
Research
Quantitative
Quantitative
Qualitative
Blogging and
The Researcher
Identity
John Stewart
Special Topic
E-Waste and the New Media User – examining
our relationships as individuals, as a cohort
and as a community of researchers and new
media users to the cycles of innovation,
obsolescence and waste.
by Samuel Mann
Week One Blog Topic/s
• What is your area of specialised knowledge or expertise?
Tutorial: No Tutorial/Lab
Seminar for Week one