How do young people use social media in times of transition to university?
The assignment is a qualitative lab report
- Conduct and transcribe one interview individually (on the topic set by the module team)
- Using the additional interview transcript, you will write a full lab report based on the combined data (the report must be an individual write up)
- Apply the 6-stages of Thematic Analysis to the combined dataset
Word length includes the Abstract, Introduction, Method, Analysis/Results and Discussion, but does not include the Title Page, References and Appendices. Quotes are also not included in the word count.
Appropriate referencing is required in this assignment. All references must be in accordance with APA guidelines.
- Not a hypotheses…
- Looking to explore, understand, discover something
- Typically, end the introduction with your research question/aims
- Any question (or questions) and aims should make sense to the reader – they definitely should not come as a surprise!
- You can state your epistemological framing here too*
*Don’t get too hung up on this, it will not impact your grade- even some of the best qualitative papers fail to mention their epistemology!
- How do young people use social media in times of transition to university?
- How do young people balance the demands of their online and offline communities?
- How do young people manage the ‘context collapse’ when their old and new SM communities collide?
- Does technology support or erode a work-family border for student mothers?
- How does the permeability of borders impact on student mothers’ lives?
