Monday, August 11, 2008

11 August - conceptual framework

- Interviews etc only tell you waht people think which is what you were telling them in the first place. Historicity.

Time

Form/function

Bevhaioural intention

Research objective: "to explore the role of social factors in virtual worlds usage and development" [in the sense that people's perceptions are the product of their social interactions plus what they tell their own personal 'selves'] or (better I think) "to explore virtual worlds adoption and continued use in organizational contexts"

I like that. But it may not be specific enough. I'm playing with 2 questions to match it. Freddy suggests a third question that deals with the results I hope to get.

Research objective was: "to explore individual perceptions of virtual worlds, their social and experiential antecedents and their impact on virtual worlds development practices in organizational contexts"

And before that: "to explore the formation of individual perceptions/attitudes/beliefs regarding online VLEs in virtual worlds, the evolution of those perceptions/attitudes/beliefs over time and their impact on online VLE usage."

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