Veronique Savard - HSA Journal 2020/2021

This is Veronique's research journal. The entries appear in descending order.

Bibliography

April 23, 2021Dissertation 14 Min Read

Bibliography Attride-Stirling, J. (2001) 'Thematic networks: An analytic tool for qualitative research'. Qualitative Research, 1(3), 385-40…

Infographic with Canva

April 19, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

Infographic Purpose Deliver a message using visuals Present information clearly Break down the narrative of the research process Demonstrate…

Writing Centre Takeaways

April 15, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

DCU Writing Centre experience I presented the abstract along with the Discussion section of the dissertation. Paula (an amazing adviser…

Catch up with Rosarie

April 14, 2021Meeting 1 Min Read

Meeting with Rosarie I presented the second version of my dissertation draft. I reviewed the work done on the introduction, the methodology…

Working on the dissertation

April 10, 2021Dissertation 1 Min Read

Dissertation is coming along! The finishing line is in sight! I have made multiple changes to my draft following the input of my supervisor…

Meeting with Rosarie

April 06, 2021Meeting 1 Min Read

Meeting with Rosarie I updated the thematic maps I was working on. I used LucidChart to ensure the content is legible and easy to understand…

Thematic Analysis using Visualisations

March 27, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

Thematic analysis using visualisations Over the past few weeks, I have learned to use LucidChart, a very powerful visualisation tool. I used…

Reviewing Themes and working on the dissertation

March 19, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

Global Themes I finished reviewing and reorganising my themes after going over my codes again. While the maps look huge at first glance, I…

Thematic Analysis

March 15, 2021Analysis 1 Min Read

Progress so far Based on the codes I've listed during my first pass over the transcripts, I am currently abstracting themes and going…

Catchup with Rosarie

March 08, 2021Meeting 1 Min Read

Quite a few questions for my supervisor this time Literature review (any comments?) Transcripts and coding, emerging themes ( axial coding…

First Dissertation Draft -- or rather, skeleton

March 01, 2021Dissertation 2 Min Read

I am currently at the stage of coding and analysis the data. I have identified general themes, but I expect to go to finish the coding…

Interview transcripts, continued

February 26, 2021Interview 1 Min Read

Transcription of the remaining interviews The transcription is going slowly but smoothly. Most of the interviews have been transcribed…

Transcription and continued analysis

February 21, 2021Interview 1 Min Read

Transcription Using Otter.ai Half of the interviews done already The transcription and first read have been time-consuming but fascinating…

Coding and start of thematic analysis

February 19, 2021Analysis 1 Min Read

Thematic analysis My plan for the upcoming week is to finish the first round of data coding across interviews and revisit my literature…

Fifth meeting with my supervisor

February 19, 2021Meeting 1 Min Read

Literature review updated (Draft FEB 2021, ongoing) Interviews transcription → do I keep all interviews, including the pilot and the…

Interview issues encountered so far

February 14, 2021Interview 1 Min Read

Survey data Here are two word clouds generated using the comments received within the survey. Interview issues so far Technical issues…

Interview Emails

February 06, 2021Interview 1 Min Read

Interview Emails First email - invitation to participate in the interview and confirmation of a few key points Dear ¬name, As you may recall…

Interview pilot and takewaway

February 04, 2021Interview 4 Min Read

Interview pilot I have only started to review the survey responses; in order to contact participants for the follow-up interview, I aim to…

Fourth meeting with Rosarie

February 01, 2021Meeting 1 Min Read

Meeting on February 1rst Number of survey responses Submitted survey link in Facebook music groups over responses (- 7 in progress, a few…

Survey responses and issues

January 28, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

Survey responses Over 70 complete responses at this point; I will be discarding the partial responses Cleaning up the data file to create…

Recruiting participants

January 26, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

Where to post and find participants Current status of the survey Responses (62 to date) Thanks to feedback from other students, I have…

Finding participants

January 17, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

Pilot version of the survey with Qualtrics: bit.ly/2LB9T9n Please have a look and let me know what you think! I reviewed your comments and…

Setting up Qualtrics

January 13, 2021Survey 1 Min Read

Creating 2 surveys Survey One One with an anonymous set up Questions multiple choices comment boxes Survey Two optional survey were…

Supervisor catchup After Christmas

January 11, 2021Meeting 2 Min Read

January 11th 2021 Happy New Year :) Submission of literature review (draft) Anything left regarding the ethics approval? There is a…

Final survey questions

January 11, 2021Survey 9 Min Read

Playlists accessed via music streaming services - the new approach to music collections? 1 I am 18 years or older at the time of reading…

Organising literature

January 04, 2021Groundwork 1 Min Read

Making it easier to refer to the articles While I have been keeping track of my readings, at the time of writing the literature review I…

Survey status after December revision

December 18, 2020Groundwork 4 Min Read

Updates to survey questions thus far Pilot survey SURVEY QUESTIONS | Thank you for choosing to participate in this survey. We appreciate…

Draft Literature review

December 18, 2020LitReview 8 Min Read

Literature review draft Draft Literature Review Work in progress, will be updated following review from my supervisor Introduction Music has…

Third Meeting with my supervisor

December 07, 2020Meeting 5 Min Read

Key points Changes necessary for ethics approval What data you are collecting How collecting, analysing, storing and deleting Detail out…

Further readings

December 04, 2020Groundwork 2 Min Read

Further reading Giles, D. C., Pietrzykowski, S., and Clark, K. E. (2007). The psychological meaning of personal record collections and the…

Further readings - Millenials

November 29, 2020Groundwork 2 Min Read

Millenials' perception Helicopter parenting https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/0507cover.aspx Marston, H.R. (201…

Collections and measurement methods

November 21, 2020Groundwork 2 Min Read

Data Classification In plain English https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/types-of-data-in-statistics-nominal-ordinal-interval-and-ratio-data…

Updated plan

November 18, 2020Groundwork 8 Min Read

Project Name Compare and contrast the relationship that Millennials music consumers have with physical music collections and music streaming…

What I want to extract from the survey

November 17, 2020Groundwork 3 Min Read

Where to recruit participants LinkedIn Twitter Goal identify participants within target pool (Millenials) confirm usage of streaming service…

Reviewing my plan draft

November 13, 2020Meeting 3 Min Read

Revisiting the research question Original Question: Do Millenials experience a similar emotional connection between their curated physical…

Planning the research in more details

November 07, 2020Groundwork 7 Min Read

Project Name Compare and contrast the emotional connection that music consumers experience with physical music collections and music…

Catchup with my supervisor

November 06, 2020Meeting 3 Min Read

First meeting Note for future calls record conversation to take note of all ideas Discussion / + / Interesting idea; wide reach as people…

Collections and music

November 02, 2020Groundwork 11 Min Read

Building the research study Sifting through documentation, articles Vlachos, P., & Vrechopoulos, A. (2004). Emerging Customer Trends Towards…

Further reading and ethical considerations

October 29, 2020Groundwork 2 Min Read

HSA Coursebook Block 1, Unit 2 - Ethics in Research (Summary) Integrity honesty, openness avoid confusion and deception, use simple…

Proposed title and research outline

October 26, 2020Groundwork 3 Min Read

This proposal is outdated as of November 6th 2020. Updated Title: Analysing how music consumers can relate to the music they access using…

Readings and summary of current findings

October 26, 2020Groundwork 2 Min Read

Different streaming services Spotify Soundcloud Deezer Purchasing songs digitally using online marketplaces such as Youtube Music, Apple…

Background reading (continued)

October 20, 2020Groundwork 3 Min Read

Continuing to look into current streaming services** Spotify Apple Music Deezer SiriusXM https://uk.pcmag.com/services-players/5359/the-best…

Background reading and establishing purpose

October 18, 2020Groundwork 3 Min Read

Exploring the literature I reviewed the different resources provided on Loop. I am currently perusing over quite a few papers -- I am…

First Post - HSA Journal

October 18, 2020Groundwork 1 Min Read

Good evening, I have decided to track my progress online for the duration of the HSA module. This is a first post and a test. Veronique I am…

Preparing the journal

October 05, 2020Groundwork 1 Min Read

Journal My research question has to be an orinal contribution (if possible) be researchable, answerable, measurable empirically be…