Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Blog 8


Blog 8 Gaming research questions

 

Should you have some background knowledge of the research before conducting the interview?

 
Ch uses language that is familiar to to B throughout the interview.  To start B comments that Ch” knows what everyone else knows how to use, frontpage, powerpoint, excel”. Ch  asked “ games aren’t really considered software..later she asks “so you know lots of software”. Towards the end of the interview Ch asks B “how about file systems and gaming spaces” and B responds “ …the games are still software.

 

Its important that an interviewer and the interviewee be in a discourse community together.  This makes the interview smooth and keeps the conversational.  Also having a common language discourse will also help the researcher to conduct a stronger interview because he or she is not stopping the interview to ask “what do that term mean?” Lastly, having a common discourse language will allow the interviewer to ask meaningful questions and gather meaning data.

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