Session3

Due to misunderstanding of the blog entry as a followup, I am posting this session along with the 4th reading.



I have spent a very long time getting through The Case for Multimethod Research. To understand the nature of statistics, I had to refer to many other online sources. However, it was interesting to observe the constituents of the survey who represented the American population. Although the actual population isn't represented well enough with internet survey, the efforts trying to disperse them to reach those in the dark of the technology was intriguing.

Also, the comparison of the main research methods of survey 2001, and GSS was enlightening. The focus of survey sampling can be faulty even though it may seem to logically represent the population due to the characteristics of the users. Also, the method of the approach mattered greatly in the sincerity and completion of the survey. The internet as data collection tool may be inaccurate with the sampling problem but opens doors to many other innovative collection of surveys.

While the Case for multimethod research took me a long time to figure out the context, the information society was the one that got me contemplate on where I was standing in the midst of the renovation. Who owns what and what can we own? What is being sacrificed in the information society? What kind of people can reign, survive in this society? How does it shape the old power? How do we develop the insight to distinguish class of information in the deluge? The copyright, creative usage of information, demassification of information that reorganizes the hierarchy of labor or even deconstructs the idea of order, the third wave government and the quality vs quantity were suggested in the reading as the answer to the above questions. The ideas stated are expressed with anxiety. Why is that?

I am living in it. I am in the renovation. Perhaps I am the renovation.