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Opinion Piece: Are you picking your major based on passion or salary?

Choosing the right degree and the right major can be a stressful and daunting experience for many students. With pressure from schools, society and family this can become challenging if students pick their degrees based on their passions and interests or based on higher-paying salary jobs and work titles. For instance, humanities degrees often getContinue reading “Opinion Piece: Are you picking your major based on passion or salary?”

Passions or Salary: A Reflection

My research topic left me feeling quite deflated. I feel like I didn’t accomplish what I originally set out to achieve. This due to myself and lack of motivation and not being able to find the answers I wanted. Due to this combination, my opinion piece may have seemed unfinished or unanswered. Things I wouldContinue reading “Passions or Salary: A Reflection”

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Research proposal: Are you picking your major for passion or money?

My curiosity about passions and careers has got me thinking about why BCM students pick their chosen major. For myself, over the last two years, I have switched my major from Visual Communications design to Marketing and Advertising. This curiosity started with my own experience of people not understanding the career path I have chosen.Continue reading “Research proposal: Are you picking your major for passion or money?”

PART THREE……THE REFLECTION

For PART ONE…. “The discovery” in my series, CLICK HERE to learn about the beginning process of my Auto ethnographic research of Bonny Rebeccas content. And for PART TWO…. “The Patterns” in my series, CLICK HERE to learn about the next phase of my Auto ethnographic research of Bonny Rebeccas content. Before starting my auto-ethnography research on my behavioursContinue reading “PART THREE……THE REFLECTION”

PART TWO…… THE PATTERNS

For PART ONE…. “The discovery” in my series, CLICK HERE to learn about the beginning process of my Auto ethnographic research of Bonny Rebeccas content. Over the past two weeks, my engagement level with Bonny’s content both on YouTube and Instagram hasn’t been as much as I usually consume. That being said, Bonny hasn’t been as presentContinue reading “PART TWO…… THE PATTERNS”

Lifestyle influencer BONNY REBECCA…… THE SERIES

PART ONE…. THE DISCOVERY It is coming to end of mid-semester break, and like many other Uni students over this time I have had more time than I usually do to spend time scrolling through my Instagram feed and catching up on my favourite YouTube videos. It is also the perfect time to start myContinue reading “Lifestyle influencer BONNY REBECCA…… THE SERIES”

Project Pitch…

For my ethnographic research project, I will be examining the impact lifestyle influencers have on their followers/subscribers. In particular, my own experience. As Lundstrom (2020) states “A Field site is not a physical nor virtual, but rather your lived experience within its network”. I have chosen this direction as I have a strong interest inContinue reading “Project Pitch…”

Research and ethics… better to be safe than sorry

My research will be an autoethnographic observation into my own experience interacting the content of the lifestyle influencer Bonny Rebecca. But before I get started, I need to make sure I’m doing everything above board and ethically sound. Autoethnography is described as “an emerging qualitative research method that allows the author to write in aContinue reading “Research and ethics… better to be safe than sorry”

Planning my approach… The Research methods

For my ethnographic digital artefact, I intend on doing further research into my field site of Bonny Rebecca as a lifestyle influencer. For my ethnographic research, I want to focus on the impact social media influencer such as Bonny Rebecca can have on their followers by how their followers such as myself think, feel andContinue reading “Planning my approach… The Research methods”