Research from the Waterfront March 27, 2008
Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Labsome.Tags: documentary, journalism, project, qualitative research, waterfront
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My next task is to make a list of comments and observations about how qualitative research may be relevant (or not) to my own project Voices from the Waterfront.
Now that I’ve established what QR is and what it seeks to achieve, I can now start to predict how it might be used in my project.
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to establish the most interesting types of people to interview in the documentaries
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to understand more about the jobs people undertook at the Waterfront
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to find out from my interview subjects about what their past lives were like
In fact, as a journalism/story-based project, a lot of the research I do will be qualititative. It will be conducted in the moment with no preconceived outcome. I will be involved in the research as an interviewer delving into the stories of my subjects as I see appropriate. The responses I get won’t be able to be graphed or shown as any form of statistical data. We might stray into areas I hadn’t expected to cover. Essentially, the direction of the research will be determined by the information I am given during the interview process.
Wow, Jon. You’ve been hard at work I see. I pretty much bailed on the whole blogging thing pretty quickly, although recently have been thinking about getting back into it again.