From doing BCM241 (media ethnographies) in a previous semester I had the idea that qualitative research was quite hard and time consuming. When it came to taking on this subject at first, I want at all enthused. But after getting told I was allowed to work in a partnership, my worries eased. As well as finding a topic I was actually interested in, and cared about really actually helped me move along this seamster through all the assessments. If I didn’t choose a topic that I could relate too, I really wouldn’t have been as involved in BCM212 as I was.
What was challenging about the work itself was pushing surveys on the BCM212 cohort, everyone needed their survey done, and it felt like even if I was doing survey after survey, I still wasn’t getting traction on my own (in our final tally we only has 35 people do our survey), even if i was posting day after day about it.
What was beneficial about starting with the risk matrix was being able to recognize all these “failure” or problems beforehand, before the research actually began. Doing that made it easy on me to say, “hey, i knew this might be coming, and thats ok.”
The biggest hurdle of all through BCM214 was this final assessment, I don’t know if I feel confident about the direction of my opinion piece, as well as not knowing if i “assessed” my final research correctly. But overall I did find this subject really beneficial for researching audiences and social media patterns, I know that I will have to use what i’ve learnt here in my future careers.
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