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Module 3 Data and Analysing Blog

Some important points I got from this Zoom discussion… It was a small discussion with just 2 of us attending, which was beneficial as Helen asked us questions and we were encouraged to talk. I had a realisation that I think I was going down the trap of using literature to prove or disprove what my participants thoughts and then telling my opinion… So here are some useful points I wrote down in my note book… …. Be mindful of thinking that observations are themes Themes are things that come up many times over the data collected the literature and your experiences Don’t use the literature to prove or reject things. Don’t think of it a scientific report as this is irrelevant to an artistic research project. Use literature to raise more questions / bring in other discussions and perspectives. We spoke about reflecting and bringing yourself into the project and not just getting swamped in literature and your data collection Did anything go against your assumptions? What challenged your assum...

Data Collecting!

I have now conducted all 6 interviews and honestly it has left me with more questions than what I feel like have been answered... I guess it was never the aim to answer our inquiry and our supervisors have always emphasised this, but now I feel like I have so much more that I need to research or it has given me new questions that I could start completely separate research projects about.  I was shocked that everyones answers were so different and so different to my own perspective on ‘ how does social media effect a professional dancers body image’. Potential themes that have reoccured that now I am going to find new literature on are… Pressure    -Pressure with Dance specific body image   -Pressure to promote / market themselves online  The words  FIT a nd  ATHLETIC   came up multiple times Filter     -Filtering what you view online. All my participants said that they really carefully consider what types of accounts that...