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¶ … Statistics: Data Collection Process and Analysis
This research work conducts the study in the form of an exploratory analysis of differently positioned youngsters' 'sexting' experiences. Research with regard to the above topic encapsulates experiences of youth from privileged classes of society, in addition to those of youngsters hailing from rural and suburban localities. Teachers are entrusted with choosing study participants. Eighth and tenth year heads of School One will choose pupils from the school on the basis of their personal knowledge of school students (Ringrose et al., 2012). That is, the research sample will comprise of a broad range of pupils hailing from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, reflecting the diversity of sample schools. School Two students will be chosen out of those who voluntarily wish to participate in the research. Eligibility criterion for student participation is experience in utilizing mobile or online technologies.
Student interview plans will guide offering preliminary prompts for conversational, semi-structured interviews directed by a set of open-ended questions. Semi-structured style of interviewing facilitates follow-up with regard to issues that respondent may deem essential, concerning key research topics, as well as clarification of meaning with interviewees in the course of the interviews (Ringrose et al., 2012). Experienced interviewers gather information via recording sessions (video and audio recording) and taking notes.
Individual interviews adopt the aforementioned procedure, and therefore concentrate on problems pertaining to digital technology and sexually explicit communication, that arise during...
Data collection for individual student interviews is conducted via audio recording and note-taking.
Based on Facebook content and focus group debates, a smaller case-study sample is chosen. This sample is followed up for issues revolving around Facebook representation and sexual communication in one-on-one interviews with students (Ringrose et al., 2012). Online ethnography data is collected via note-taking and observation. For instance, observation of timing of Facebook posts, followed by post-copying for the purpose of analysis help collect the data.
Data for text mapping is gathered from multiple texting platforms, particularly WhatsApp, by means of recording or simple 'screen casting'. Furthermore, interviews for chosen case participants follow online ethnography and text mapping. Interviewees are required to explain pictorial and textual posts.
2. Analysis
2.1. Grounded Theory
In qualitative methods of study data analysis, theory development takes place continuously. Grounded theory entails inductive development of an orderly, observations-based theory (ACT Foundation, 1995). Qualitative analysis firstly covers summarization of observations into abstract categories. Subsequently, the consistency of those categories is tested directly in study setting; where further observations are made. As the activities of observation, questioning, and reflection progress, indicators are chosen and analysis-specific concepts and definitions are formed and improved. Study analysis will inspect the distribution and incidence of particular phenomena such as the number of students making a certain kind of…
References
ACT Foundation (1995). Suggested criteria for qualitative research. Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
Gibbs, G. R., (2007). 4 Thematic coding and categorizing. Analyzing Qualitative Data. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Ringrose, J., Gill, R., Livingstone, S. & Harvey, L. (2012). A qualitative study of children, young people and 'sexting'. NSPCC
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