Monday, December 7, 2009
Further descusion
I think that research methods are really important to studies of communication. I recently completed the quantitative research course at SJSU. This course required persistence, but was very interesting at the end of it all. One of the most fundamental research methods that I took as vital was the survey research method. I conducted a study on how the perception of reality television shows such as, flavor of love or the hills, alters the perception of reality on U.S. citizens compared to people who were raised outside of the U.S. This was fun to do because we were able to conduct a survey and then code it to where we were able to make sense of what people answered. In our research we found that people who watch reality television shows consistently felt that there partner should be very attractive sexually to them. This was cool to find out because we often read many research studies for our courses, but generally never have to conduct one.
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I really liked hearing about the study you conducted, it sounds very interesting! I’ve always thought reality TV skews our perceptions of the world but now you have proved that, within romantic partners, it does. There are so many crazy shows out there now, I can’t keep up with all of them! They have thought of a reality TV show for just about everything and most of them I have to laugh at. I mean come on, the ‘real’ housewives of Orange County, Atlanta, etc. I’m pretty sure there’s nothing ‘real’ about them! But our society can’t help but love these shows. I’ve laughed at The Hills many times because it is so unrealistic but then I find myself getting sucked into it and not being able to change the channel!
ReplyDeleteI took quantitative communication last semester and had to conduct a research project as well. You're seems extremely interesting, and I agree that learning about the research methods in this course, was useful for that. I also believe the media portion we learned about this semester probably could have helped your research out as well. One thing about these communication courses, is that you can take what you learned from one class and bring it into the next, so it's not like your forgetting what you have learned from the previous semesters your getting to actually use what you learned. Which, is extremely beneficial to us. Great Job, I hope your study went well, it seems like it did!
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