Plan for the Week

TO DO THIS WEEK:

• Respond to thesis feedback - IN PROGRESS
• One final read through of thesis and final edits - IN PROGRESS
• Format thesis to make it look not like garbage
• Check through research journal + make sure it's all up to date
• Add any missing images to research journal
• Maybe do some CSS reformatting if time

Hand In

Successfully handed in

Time to not think about that again for a billion years

Focus Groups!

In further exciting news, got my focus groups done this week as well! It was a really interesting experience running focus groups for the first time - the first one was definitely scary but with the second group I felt a lot more confident and I think did a much better job with moderating it. The tech stuff was really my main worry but based on a cursory listen back to bits of the recordings it sounds like it's all gone ok. Had really interesting discussions with both groups and it was generally just a really positive experience! I won't be analysing the results until after the break but I've definitely picked up on a lot of really interesting threads throughout the discussions. Not super looking forward to the transcription and analysis process since I have about 2 hours worth of recording from the first group and an hour and a half from the second which is y'know. A LOT. That's longer than extended edition Return of the King. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Thoughts from the first group:

• Worried at first that there wouldn't be enough discussion - people were quite hesitant to answer questions at first but got warmed up
• Need to get better with timings - could have cut first half short and had more time to talk about media representations, also might be useful to give people a time limit in the second one - make sure no one person dominates conversation
• Balance between not cutting people off and being mindful of time limit/letting everyone have their say
• Will bear in mind for second one - though there are fewer people in that one anyway
• Interesting points brought up - Classism! Consent = major theme! Misconceptions and stereotypes people have
• Used "What would people like to see more of in representation?" as final question - covered a lot of bases
• Initial thoughts section ended up taking up basically whole discussion - didn't get to ask questions in my list but topics kind of just got brought up naturally anyway

Thoughts from the second group:

• Better at moderating this time! Kept more to time and made more of an effort to make sure everyone was speaking relatively equally - also easier bc it was just 3 people rather than 5
• Had a fun scare where it looked like there might only be 2 participants but fortunately the 3rd person was able to make it in the end THANK GOD
• Interesting getting a different perspective - but I think the points that got brought up were surprisingly similar a lot of the time! Same ideas touched on from different perspectives
• People liked the snacks I provided - very important
• Transcribing and analysing is gonna kill me but it is what it is
• Found it harder to not talk myself this time - people seemed to want me to explain certain concepts but I didn't want to interfere with the results so had to stay silent lol
• Need to email everyone who took part in focus groups to let them know I'll send them my thesis when it's done

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