Social Research Methods: The Effect of Online Media 1

Participants

The participants for my study will be the students of Sherubtse College. The purpose for choosing them is on the grounds that, since my research is fundamentally to inspect the effect of online media on singular confidence of fear of missing out, I feel students are most appropriate for it. I need to concentrate how the social media impact an individual when they are a lot into web-based media and feel themselves secluded. Pretty much every student are professional clients of social media and all the more critically, nearly everybody feels the fear of missing out. Consequently, I needed to analyze how the utilization of social media impact individual and the feeling of being dismissed, regardless of whether it reinforces or debilitate the individual by getting into web-based media. By utilizing those participants, the outcome got will be generalizable to people in general.

Sampling technique and Size

The sample for my study will be chosen by using simple random sampling method. By utilizing this technique, each unit of populace will get equivalent possibility of being incorporated into the example. This inspecting strategy can diminish the sampling mistake and furthermore there is no open door for human predisposition. Participants would not be chosen based on abstract models, for example, they are amicable or receptive. Sample size for my study will be 30 students which will include 15 males and 15 females respectively. Of the all-out students in the college, I will relegate back to back arbitrary numbers to everybody and afterward select 30 (n=total sample from N=total population) of them by utilizing computer that produce irregular numbers.

Materials and procedures.

My research type will be explanatory in nature. The exploration principally means to consider the causal connection between the social media use and FOMO. The current review of the literature recommended that there is a huge effect of social media on FOMO. Nonetheless, there are just restricted articles concentrated on this subject and for country like Bhutan, there are no papers written to see the effect. In this way, I need to contemplate the negative effects and its answer for wrap off the fear of missing. The study will utilize quantitative methodology as it incorporates uses of insights, proposing ends and supporting dynamic.

Data Collection

The study will be quantitative exploration in nature and it will utilize cross-sectional research design. The methodology for this study is quantitative in light of the fact that it expects to research the causal connection between two variables and furthermore means to test the hypothesis that social media has negative effect on FOMO. Organized survey questionnaires will be utilized to gather data from the respondents which depends on simple random sampling. The questionnaires will utilize Likert scale going from 1 (never) to 4 (consistently) to quantify the power of respondents feeling towards the inquiry. Every respondent will be approached to demonstrate his/her degree of concurrence with the inquiry.

Data Analysis

The information gathered will be dissected by utilizing SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). The data gathered will be traded to SPSS for definite analysis. It is a software utilized for the examination of quantitative information. To test the hypothesis, Chi Square test will be done. Chi Square measurement is usually utilized for testing connections between all out variables.

Results

My study will primarily consider in the event that one may feel the strain brought about by the fear of missing out; a urgent worry that one may pass up on chance or fulfilling occasions via media. I will see the measure of time individuals spent via media and dissect in the event that they are influenced vivaciously and feel the neglection. Subsequent to doing this study, the finding I am expecting is that, if there is unsafe impact of media use on students often stirred by posts seen via media as my hypothesis statement. Since a large portion of individuals are utilizing media stage like Facebook, tiktok and Instagram in like manner. We fear to settle on some unacceptable choice on the best way to invest our energy and be educated about the results in media newsfeed. Thus, I think that my research will demonstrate or prove the theory/hypothesis.

References

1. Bryman, A. (2008). Social research methods. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Manual publication of the American Psychological Association. (2010). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.