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Introduction
Hello readers, hope everyones new year is going good for you so far! Happy 2025.
This year we are going to be doing Contemporary Journalism (Level one). Contemporary Journalism approaches your own thoughts and opinons and unravelling news and information worldwidely. I am looking forward to this because I want to get a good knowledge on investing and looking more deeply in things that are and aren’t always real on the internet. I’m also hoping I get all the credits I need for this subject.
We started off with the introduction: “What is Contemporary Journalism?” and what types of content we are going over throughout the year. First thing was to share a story, place or artefact that is significance to you to make connections to each other or family, hapu, iwi and to places. My piece I made was digital on a poster. I choose a significant place that connects me and family. Significant story
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Understanding Social Inquiry
Social relating to our society and human behavior and Inquiry which are based off asking questions and trying to get infomation. Through social inquiry, we ask questions, gather information and examine the background to important social ideas and events. Big ideas are connected through shared concepts relating to culture, identity, social organisation and globalisation. One good way to connect these ideas was to create a mind map or connections web.
It’s a bit hard to see but on my mind map there are 3 main concepts Hononga, Culture and Identity. which all lead to the similar idea. This will help so when we look into more tricky things it will help to understand and retain infomation better.
Article Summaries
Source Analysis
A source is anything that can be used to provide evidence in research. This can be a book, website or artefact. What can we do if these sources are providing us the truth? Well, we need to have good critical thinking to determine. One of the ways we can do to tell if this is the actual truth acrynom A.D.A.M. This is one of the ways that our most helpful to me, but there are lots of other great methods you can use.
A – Author, who created the source that you are looking at?
D – Date, when was this source created?
A – Audience, whom was the source made for?
M – Meaning/Message, what is the author trying to convey in the source?
Source Analysis Activity
Now we had to analyse some sources, this is to help us get a start off so it gets easier when approaching other things similar. Our source was a fast fashion news article.
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Data
Qualitative vs. Quantitative Data
When investigating social issues, students need to understand the two main types of data used in research: qualitative and quantitative. Both types are important for forming a well-rounded understanding of social problems and solutions.
Qualitative
This is more of a descriptive form. A non-numerical data that explores people’s experiences, opinions, and meanings.
It’s characteristics are based on words, observations, and themes rather than numbers. Qualitative can also be collected through interviews, focus groups, case studies, and open-ended survey responses. This helps to get a perspective from people.
Quantitative
A numerical data that can be measured, counted, and statistically analysed.
It’s characteristics are based on numbers, percentages, and statistics. This can also be collected through surveys with closed-ended questions, official statistics, experiments, and structured observations.
Combined Data
Many social studies investigations combine qualitative and quantitative data for the complete picture.