Sunday, 10 October 2010

Introduction

As this is the first proper piece of work I've done since college after my gap year, I'm struggling a bit to get back into the swing of things... hope my introduction is O.K! Don't know if it's long enough? Ah well. It'll all come back to me soon!

Introduction

The 21st century has been deemed the age of technology and information, with billions of technological devices bringing together different media types to try and make our lives more convenient and easy. In the past few years convergence in gadgets has really increased, what with iPods, iPads, electronic readers, and online games consoles etc. companies just keep bringing out new ways of getting on the internet or watching TV. You really are spoiled for choice. It’s even got to the stage where we don’t need to own a television; you can watch television on your laptop and now even on your mobile phones.  

 This report is going to investigate the pros and cons of technological convergence. It will explore the many different ways in which media types come together on technological devices. It will show the research carried out to argue whether or not convergence on technological devices makes our lives easier or makes daily tasks more complicated.

‘Technological convergence is bettering our technological needs’

This hypothesis is the basis of this paper and this is what will be explored into. With this in mind, the aims of this paper are to discover what the public think about the topic. This will be found by using different research methods; both qualitative and quantitative. The researcher will use questionnaires to gain quick and to the point results. Focus groups will also be used to gather more in-depth answers. A range of different audiences will be explored into to see if background or area of the audiences affects the results of the study. The aim of this paper is to discover whether people use, and are excited about technological convergence or if they are dubious, and don’t like the idea; is it a waste of time? Another objective is to see whether public think that it is too soon for such fast advancements and whether people are bothered by this. These are the questions that need to be answered:

  • Is there to much technological convergence in devices?
  • Are there too many new technological gadgets entering the market?
  • Does technological convergence make our lives easier or more complicated?
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  1. Jo Bowman12 October 2010 at 08:29

    This is a good start. There is a mixture of the abstract and the introduction here. In your introduction just explain the problem or concept that you are investigating. We don't at this point need you to talk about how you will investigate ie focus groups, this can be saved until your methodology section. You have grasped the idea of the hypothesis and questions which is good.

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