Survey / Interview / states that interviews researchers talking to one or more participants, where the categories of response • “involve Focus Group are focused but not necessarily pre-determined. Interviews are usually recorded by audio- or video-tape, or notes. These records are research data in themselves, but also may be transcribed. Interviews are usually conducted in locations mutually acceptable to participants and interviewers.” National Statement 3.1 states that groups of participants discuss a set of research questions or topics. This • “focus may entail the researcher acting as a moderator for the discussion”. This method includes research using oral history. • Textual analysis This method may involve evaluation of texts including film, television, photographs, magazines, advertisements, • clothes, graffiti and other media. This method may include the study of content or specific language and its frequency (e.g. hermeneutics or • linguistic analysis).
Survey / Interview / Focus Group • states that interviews “involve researchers talking to one or more participants, where the categories of response are focused but not necessarily pre-determined. Interviews are usually recorded by audio- or video-tape, or notes. These records are research data in themselves, but also may be transcribed. Interviews are usually conducted in locations mutually acceptable to participants and interviewers.” • National Statement 3.1 states that “focus groups of participants discuss a set of research questions or topics. This may entail the researcher acting as a moderator for the discussion”. • This method includes research using oral history. Textual analysis • This method may involve evaluation of texts including film, television, photographs, magazines, advertisements, clothes, graffiti and other media. • This method may include the study of content or specific language and its frequency (e.g. hermeneutics or linguistic analysis).
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