If you need a voice from a well adjusted ordinary member of this community, I'll be here to serve your purpose.
Thank you guys for your feedback and your interview requests!! You are definitely amazing! Well...I don't work for the NSA, it's CIA... This study doesn't use surveys in the data collection method. If it's necessary, there will be around 20 depth interviews, each takes between 1 and 2 hours. Btw, I'm filling now your survey ;-) Concerning the interviews, I am very restrained by my Research Ethics Committee, I have to conduct real interviews with Canadian people. But I'm going to request a worls-wide extension. The questions will be like: What are your hobbies? When do you do them? Alone/with friends/unknown people/...? When did you start playing Warhammer 40,000 table-top? Can you tell me more about that? What were your first feelings? Do you play video games? What was your first game? Can you tell me your opinion about the social aspect in a video game? Have you already played a licensed video game? What were your feelings? Do you think you were more demanding than for non-licensed video games? ... It does Many products and services have been launched after an ethnographic study, which allows companies to get specific insights from the consumers community. What a quantitative survey can't exactly do, is on the manner and reasons why you use the product. Few years ago, Montreal Daily (La Presse), has changed to become exclusively digital (LaPresse+). This needed depth interviews to understand how, when and why people read LaPresse. Researchers needed to go to interviewees' home, sometimes on sundays at 9am, to ask them many questions while they were reading the newspaper. It's type of info you can't get at a shopping mall exit in 5 minutes. Plus, 99% of quantitative studies are guided by a previous qualitative study, which we call "exploratory", to define some trends to specify the final survey. Gui.
It's a really interesting topic you've chosen, Gui. Once you've completed your paper are you going to post it publicly? Is this thesis-type material and is it going to be peer reviewed? I'd be interested in your conclusions. There are some unique personalities here.
It could probably be said I use this forum mostly for social interactions and laughs with crazy posting, I do consider moral responsibility while posting a lot as I don't want anything to devolve into a flame war and rather it remains the crazy and laughable atmosphere I come here for.
