After intense research, I decided to attract a potential audience from facebook, by creating a public ‘Like’ page with the title GR Media. This particular method allows people to subscribe to updates and contribute to discussions, which is vital for my research. After the ‘Like’ page was launched, it received 59 ‘likes’.
http://www.facebook.com/grmedia
With enough responses from the above attraction, I used Google Docs to create a web data collection form (electronic questionnaire) and posted a link to this on the GR Media facebook page. I designed the questionnaire to take into consideration a variety of options and my main objective was to obtain a fair and honest outcome. Although this was still very much in the experimental stage, I hoped to attract several participants who had subscribed to the GR Media Page.
As social networking sites are used leisurely, I decided to keep the questionnaire simple and fairly short otherwise participants may defer from completing it. Its main design plan was to establish my participants biological information, tastes along with preferences, viewing habits and their knowledge and understanding of the form and the genre ‘Social Realism’.
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