Reading 6: Investigate research methods

Please write clearly about which article you read.

Answer the questions in your reading thoughts

• List some key elements that are listed in this article about the research method.

• What is its definition?

• What will be the preparation that a researcher should do if they want to use this research method?

• Think about the research inquiry you roughly made in class. How will this research method help you investigate your research inquiry?

I chose the article "History of Art in the Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities. This articles main message is the idea that technology has changed almost everything about research methods. "The rapid intellectual change summed up in cultural studies by the term ‘postmodernism’ seems to involve in its own nature that challenge to existing hierarchies" which can change our perspective on art immensely. There are new methods to document and share art digitally such as online galleries, which broadens the audience. That can change analysis and interpretation of art as well because of this larger spectrum of eyes. The good thing about digital art is the flexibility. Things can be changed, and ideas can be opened up as history evolves.

I think this research method can help me take a look at how online and digital art can affect people.