Skeleton Chapter Plan February 12, 2008
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I have constructed a list of titles that will be contained within my dissertation, I have created around 20 titles and this should enable me to structure my ideas in order to guide the reader.
Breakdown of Dissertation Content
Introduction
- An introduction to the World of Gaming
- Video Games from the Past
- The Emergence of the First-Person Shooter game
- Defining discursive Gaming Language
- The importance of Play in understanding Gaming
- How can a Game be defined?
- The theory behind understanding the Video game
- How Games can be applied to Moral Ethics and Values
- What I expect to gain from the research
Method and Methodology
- Approach to my study and Philosophy behind it
- Explanation of Internet Ethnography
- How is my Internet Ethnography relevant
- Application of Internet Ethnography
- Other Methods used in Conjunction with Internet Ethnography
- Ethics of Research
- Proposed choice of Data Analysis
- How I aim to operationalise the Data for use
Data Analysis and Evaluation
- Summary of Interviews
- The Key findings
- Discussion of Results
- How do my findings relate to my proposed outcomes?
- The extent to which my research relates to previous theory
- Personal Critique of my study
- How can the area of Computer Game ethics can be researched further?
- Conclusion
Citations
Bibliography
Appendices
This is the structure I aim to work with, however some of the titles may change. As new ideas will emerge from my writing that will allow them to become more concise and better formed.
