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The Impact of Social Media

Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media

Part A (3 lesson-version) sociology.hku.hk/impact-social-media

Updated: July 2018

Welcome to Independent Enquiry Study !

• School-based

assessment

• 20% of your DSE final

mark

• Research on any

issues related to the DSE LS curriculum

• Submit a report of

not more than 4,500 words

Structured Enquiry Approach

A Step by Step Guide

3

Part A • What are the issues I should focus my research on? Part B • What concepts and methods are relevant to your IES? Part C • What areas should I explain in detail for my enquiry issue? Part D • How do I formulate an argument?

Part A: Problem Definition

What are the issues I should focus my research on?

• 1. Getting You Thinking……
• What socially significant issue do you feel

interested in?

• What are the debates related the issue?

Let’s take social media as an example!

Video Watching: Why do you think that social media is significant to research on? (p.4)

• Social media is very popular and its impact is widespread.
• Social media changes the way people communicate with each other.
• Studies of social media may have policy implications etc.

Watch this video at: https://youtu.be/Pr2lJ3efShk

• a. What’s debatable? (p.6)
• The impact of social media on education.
• While some people believe social media has detrimental effect on academic

performance of students, others believe that social media benefits both formal education and informal education.

• b. Whose view might be relevant to the debate?
• Students, teachers, parents etc.
• 2. Choosing a Controversial Issue

Enquiry question: How does social media affect education?

How do teachers and students use social media? How useful do parents from various socio-economic classes see social media in terms of their children’s formal and information education? How do teachers develop school policy to regulate the use of social media in school?

• 3. Choosing Your Focus Questions

Kahoot: Which of the enquiry questions are good?

• Controversial
• Allows you to discuss from multiple perspectives
• Specific enough
• Feasible to collect data to research on
• Focus questions are relevant to the enquiry question

Good Enquiry and Focus Questions Are:

• What is your enquiry issue and major enquiry question?
• Why is your study significant? Who might the results be useful for and

why? Could your results be used to create social policy? If so, how?

• Why is your study significant? Who might the results be useful for and

why? Could your results be used to create social policy? If so, how?

• What controversy(ies) are you going to discuss in your IES?
• What do you aim to achieve?
• What focus questions do you ask?
• Who do you want to study?
• Where would you base your research and why?

Your Turn…… P.9-10 of Student Pack

If you are interested in debates related to social media… Check them out on p.4-5 Education Individualism Privacy

Gender relations

Culture

and many more…

How do I identify and define key concepts? How do I choose my research method?

Upcoming…