COMS 2004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Null Hypothesis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2004
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Text: data that are symbolic, performative, visual, or pictorial: any individual, text, or artifact provides data, focus is concentrated on texts; spoken or written words, performances, visual signs. Direct observation: researchers" personal experiences/interpretations of interactions between people: researcher provides data, focus is concentrated on other people"s behaviours. Self-report: participants" perceptions about their own behaviours, beliefs, and/or characteristics: participants provide data, focus is concentrated on participants" self perceptions. Other-report: participant"s perceptions about their own behaviours, beliefs, and/or characteristics: participants provide data, focus is concentrated on participants" perceptions of others. Activity: communication research questions: how do young people use digital communication technologies to engage in social activism, methodology: qualitative, topic/central phenomenon: use of digital communication technologies for social activism, participants: young people, data collection source: text, observation, self-report. Midterm - october 13th: online, in class, 40 questions - multiple choice, true false, matching, content - weeks 1-5 readings, lectures, tutorials, special guests.