In response to the feedback we intend to post five summaries by Monday next week (22/10/12) of the case studies we will be looking at to see if they are appropriate and to receive feedback from other members of the group. As we have discovered the concept of Internet trolling is a new term, we will clarify our perception from the definitions given by broadsheet newspapers and academic journals to help focus our analysis.
We felt as though we did not fully explain our intentions concerning the measure of severity we intend to use in our project. We would like to make it clear that we will use the responses from the public expressed in our questionnaire as a basis for interpreting how offensive the language of the case studies is perceived.
In response to your concern about the recipients of our questionnaire, we intend to use the internet service survey monkey and email our questionnaire directly to our participants. We will each ask ten men and ten women to complete our questionnaire. Half of the recipients will be over the age of thirty and half under.
We are no longer planning to only look at high profile cases, as we don't want to focus on the legal side and feel it more appropriate to concentrate on the linguistic features of the troll posts.
Thank you for your feedback!
Thanks for the very quick response and clarification. There's quite a lot of material in the textbook which should help you firm up your plans (e.g. see the checklist on pp 126-7). Think about a respondent to your questionnaire who is 29 and another who is 31: do you see any potential problem with your results? Don't forget the ethical issues: once you move away from high profile, public discourse to anything more personal these may become more important. I'd also suggest you look again at pp 108-9 of the textbook in light of your research questions. Well done so far; this is a good beginning.
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