UCLA Communication Research Process & Interviewer Questions

1) What role in the research process did you specifically fulfill? For instance, which of the four participants did you interview? What specific contributions did you make to the assembly of the final presentation? Do you feel that you played an equal part at each stage of the research process? Are there ways you could have been more responsive to group communications or accountable to your responsibilities?

2) How would you describe your experience as a research interviewer? What did you find challenging? What aspects were rewarding? Do you think the interview process illuminated certain aspects about fandom that could not have been revealed otherwise?

3) How would you describe your group’s process of conducting a collective analysis of data. I know you discuss this a bit in your presentation, but please provide a more detailed and personalized explanation here. Did your group encounter any internal disagreements about how to read the data, or did you have a specific take or reading that did not align with others’s takeaway from the interviews?

4) Would you say that everyone in your group played an equal part in the research process? Did everyone conduct their interviews and share their recordings in a timely manner? Did everyone fulfill other responsibilities and commitments as needed? Please explain in detail.

5) Overall, what did you personally learn from this research process?