Week 9 Blog Post

Julliene Gatchalian: I’m wondering if the sample size for the “disadvantaged” minority groups only included Blacks and Latinos. Was the study also inclusive of other minority groups and was the data different depending on the group people belonged to?

Mengshi Ju:
If it's your turn to do this research, which perspectives and samples will you choose since you think there are problems with these two aspects of this research?

Those two questions both wondering the samples of “disadvantaged” minority groups. This is also one of biggest concerns that I have for my research paper: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0093650214565925

According to the chart, I figured out that many of the Black/Latino (31 people) were well-educated (60 people). For those well educated people, were they still belonging to the disadvantaged groups? Or should the Black/Latino who were also poor educated should be counted into double minority groups? I’m thinking of making comparisons between the Black/Latino with well-educated backgrounds and White/Asian who were poor educated. So it will showcase the results which factor plays more important role in determining the laptop access at home and differences in weak ties and interracial exchange. And there are also many unmanageable factors, including social economic status, ages etc. If I’m conducting the research, I will try to rule out those interference factors and be more objective and detailed.

Additionally, the author only mentioned the races and education levels. I read another article “Digital inclusion: an analysis of social disadvantage and the information society”.
The link: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/26938/
In the article, to conceptualize social exlusion, the author has taken five resources into consideration, namely economic resources, cultural resources, social resources, political or civic resources and personal resources. I think this tree map is helpful before conducting the research and see how to group the minorities in a more effective way.

 By doing this critical assignment, I have learned that we need to be patient before conducting the research. We need to think carefully the concepts of some of the main points, for example the disadvantaged minorities there. How to define it is the first but very important step to success. It’s a good way to do the researches and draw the tree map to help researchers collect date in a more effective way.


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