CMNS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Literature Review, Academic Journal, Nvivo
6 Oct 2016
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This week"s topic: how to do documentary research. Clips shown from spotlight, a film showing boston newspaper that used documentary research to uncover the pedophilia scandal in the catholic church. They have to find a strategy, find the info, and note it down in a way that they can search for patterns (takes place in the 90s). Deacon tells us: this can be primary (stand alone form of research for historical analysis, meta analysis, study of power/context, etc. ) or supplemental (using to verify facts gathered by other means aka triangulation). **not to be confused with primary and secondary documents** Historical analysis: jeffery m. paige was able to understand oligarchy in. Central america by looking at the family genealogy. Meta analysis: a look at open development initiatives in lower and middle- income countries by looking at all research known (give a picture of where things are at research-wise on the topic).
