Group name
The future of journalism
What we have done
After having previously decided amongst a variety of topics, we decided to
look closer into the subject of crowd funding.
This week, as well as the last one, we’ve mainly been discussing how we
should approach the subject of crowd funding and what kind of results we would
like to present at the final presentations.
We’ve also contacted two possible candidates for an interview who both have
experience from crowd funding in different ways. The first candidate, who is an
author, has partly made use of crowd funding in order to finance the work and
release of his book. The second candidate possesses general knowledge in the
area and performs a lot of study on the topic. The interview dates are not yet
set but if everything goes according to the plan we should have performed one
interview in the beginning of next week.
In order to get a clear structure of what should be done and when, we’ve
created a preliminary project plan and schedule. Potential changes to the
project plan might become necessary. In relation to the project plan we’ve also
divided the future workload of a pre-study which will be essential in order to
get an even clearer view of how the topic should be treated. It will also be
important in order for us to have relevant questions at the interviews.
What we will do
Next step in the process will be to undertake a pre-study on the topic at
hand. Even though we have a somewhat clear view of how we want to investigate
crowd funding, there is still a possibility to change the direction of the
approach if new or deviating results would come up. Besides performing an
analysis of the current situation of crowd funding, we will investigate the issues
of the topic from three different perspectives: practical, economical and
ethical.
We will prepare for the interviews by creating an interview plan, partly
created out of the results from the pre-study. As earlier mentioned we also aim
to carry out at least one interview by next week.
Problems encountered
We had some minor problems finding relevant candidates for an interview.
The phenomenon of crowd funding is not as widespread in Sweden as in e.g. the
states. By searching forums and blogs on the internet as well as recalling
earlier guest lecturers in previous courses, we although managed to find two
very appropriate candidates.
Changes in the project
Regarding changes in the project we never had any. From the first meeting
we have all been in the same mind of thought concerning what we should do and
how we should approach the topic.
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