Research Project - Artefact 1

I've been working on my questionnaire today. Haven't distributed it yet as I have given it to my tutor to check over before I do so.

Here it is:

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Update: Research Project

Haven't blogged in a while. Completed my Research document, and work on plans for my artifacts over the Christmas holidays.

My research project topic is about Online TV. My research question is: 'How has online TV affected the user's viewing experience?'. This researches how online TV has changed users habits for watching their TV programmes. It looks into how online TV has changed viewing figures, how digital piracy links with this, and technoligies that are already implemented to make the user's viewing experience better. I have looked at the various onine TV platforms for my research and read two books (The Television Will Be Revolutionzed, By Amanda. D. Lotz and and a book called 'Online Television). A website that has helped me a lot during research is Pew Internet. It is a website that gathers surveys, and it contains alot of information about online teleivision statistics and figures.
This is an example of a survey that Pew Internet have done, this shows the increse in online video from 2007-2009 by age range:

--------Groups---------------------2007----2008----2009
1.------Young Adults 18-29---------76%-----72%-----90%
2.------Adults 30-49----------------57%-----57%-----67%
3.------Older Adults 50-64---------46%-----34%-----41%
4.------Seniors 55 and Up----------39%-----19%-----27%



















I have looked into different research methodologies and I have breifly got an idea of which ones would work with my topic of Online TV, but these may change as my artifacts come along. I want to include questionnaires, expert interviews, gainig information from television companies i.e. BBC, ITV, Channel 4 who also have an online tv plarform, peoples diary of viewing habits.

PRP - Personal Research Project

For my personal research project, I will be looking into Online Television and the ways in which it has made an impact on our daily lives. I will gain data from TV companies, for example ITV, BBC, Channel 4 and Sky and use it to compare the change in their popularity in comparison to Online TV. I will also use the data figures for Online TV to examine how it has changed since it first was introduced.

I beleive with this topic, I can lead onto other artefacts that discuss online piracy and how some programmes can be viewed online before broadcast, if shown in other countries i.e. America, and also all the other issues relating to online piracy.

I hope the TV companies will reply back and I can get hold of some sort of statistics. This project is the one I am a bit worried about.

Artefact 1

Today, we filmed our first artefact for our practice experiments. We have been asked to complete a plan of 2 artefacts, with an abstract explaing them, and if we can, make at least 1 artefact.

We have chosen the subject of Online TV, and the question we experimented was 'How has Online TV affected the viewer's experience?'. Looking at research, we realised the main audience that watched online tv are `8-25 year olds.
Therefore, we went out today and filmed 30 young 18-25 ear olds and asked the the question, along with what method would they prefer to watch their TV progammes on?

Take a look: