Social media plays an essential role in the modern society, enabling people to

be connected to each other. This study describes perception and awareness of

social media users to their data privacy on social networking sites. Social
networks have become a part of human life. While enjoying the information
sharing on social media, yet it requires a great deal for security and privacy.
Social media users are not just the source of information, they are also the
targets. They leave digital footprints during their visits to those websites and
applications, where privacy breaches and identity theft cases are increasing.
Users are vulnerable to privacy breaches. The sharing of personal details such
as gender, age, education, location, and other personal information such as
personal and family photographs can assist in creating identity that can be
stolen and used by the attacker. The research focuses on Facebook and
Instagram.

Chapter 1 Introduction:

1. What is your research about? 500 words

2. Why did you choose this particular topic or question? 500 words

3. What do you hope to achieve through this research? 800 words

4. What does recent or prior research say about your topic? 1500 words

5. What is the theoretical frame? 500 words

6. What is the context of your research? 500 words.

Answer the following questions with respect to the topic you have chosen for
your dissertation to be submitted on February 24th, 2019 for 20 marks. This is
the first draft.

1. What is your research about? 500 words

2. Why did you choose this particular topic or question? 500 words
3. What do you hope to achieve through this research? 800 words
4. What does recent or prior research say about your topic? 1500 words
5. What is the theoretical frame? 500 words
6. What is the context of your research? 500 words.
Remember to cite in APA format only.

Social Science Research Design reference questions:

1. What is a research problem?

2. What is research design? What is achieved by a well-developed research

design?

3. What are the various ways in which a researcher chooses a research

problem?

4. Epistemology is about the way we know things and ontology is about what
things are. How do they influence research?

5. What is meant by the terms positivism, realism and interpretivism? Why is

it important to understand each of them?

6. Outline the main differences between quantitative and qualitative

research with respect to relationship between theory and data.

7. To what extent is quantitative research solely concerned with testing

theories and qualitative research with generating theories?

8. What are some of the main influences on social science research?

9. What are the differences between reliability and validity and why are
these important criteria for the evaluation of social science research?
10. Outline the meaning of measurement validity, internal validity, external
validity, ecological validity.

11. Why are research questions important in the overall research process?

12. What are the main characteristics of good research questions?

13. The main importance of experimental design for the social researcher is
that it represents a model of how to infer causal connections between
variables – explain this statement.

14. What is a quasi-experiment?

15. Why might a longitudinal research design be superior to a cross-sectional

one?

16. What is a case study? Is case study exclusive to qualitative research?

17. What are some of the principles by which cases might be selected?

18. What are the chief strengths of a comparative research design?

19. What are the main steps in quantitative research? To what extent do the
main steps follow a strict sequence?

20. Why is measurement important for the quantitative researcher? What is

the difference between a measure and an indicator?

21. Outline the main preoccupations of quantitative researchers. What

reasons ca you give for their prominence?

22. Replication in social science may be rare yet it is an important

preoccupation among quantitative researchers. Explain why.

23. What is a concept? Explain any two in communication.

24. Explain – population, sample, sampling frame and representative sample.

25. What are the goals of sampling?

26. What are the main areas of potential bias in sampling?

27. What is the significance of sampling error for achieving a representative

sample?

28. What is probability sampling and why is it important?

29. What are the main types of probability sample?

30. How far does a stratified random sample offer greater precision than a
simple random or systematic sample?

31. What factors would you take into account in deciding how large your
sample should be when devising a probability sample?

32. What is non-response and why is it important to the question of whether

you will end up with a representative sample?

33. Are non-probability samples useless?

34. In what circumstances may you apply snowball sampling?

35. Why is it important in interviewing for survey research to keep interviewer

variability to a minimum? How successful is the structured interview in
reducing interviewer variability?

36. Why might a survey researcher prefer to use a structure rather than an
unstructured interview approach for gathering data?

37. To what extent is rapport an important ingredient of structured

interviewing?

38. How strong is the evidence that question order in a questionnaire can
significantly affect answers?

39. What is the difference between probing and prompting? How important
are they and what are the dangers lurking with their use?

40. Why are self-completion questionnaires usually made up mainly of closed

questions?
41. What are the advantages and disadvantages of close ended and open
ended questions?

42. What are the chief limitations of survey research with regard to the study
of behaviour?

43. What are the chief characteristics of structured observation?

44. An observation schedule is much like a self-completion questionnaire or

structured interview except that it does not entail asking questions. Explain.

45. Identify some of the main sampling strategies in structured observation.

46. How far do you agree with the view that structured observation works
best when used in conjunction with other research methods?

47. What is the difference between manifest and latent content? What are the
implications of the distinction for content analysis?

48. Why are precise research questions especially crucial in content analysis?

49. What special sampling issues does content analysis pose?

50. To what extent do you need to infer latent content when you go beyond
counting words?

51. Why is coding so crucial in content analysis?

52. What is secondary analysis?

53. What are the four types of variables? Why is it necessary to distinguish
between them?

54. What is an outlier and why might one have an adverse effect on the mean
and the range?

55. Outline some of the traditions of qualitative research.

56. What are some of the main research methods associated with qualitative
research?

57. Does a research question in qualitative research have the same significance
and characteristics as in quantitative research?

58. What is the difference between definitive and sensitizing concepts?

59. What is triangulation?

60. What are some of the main criticisms that are frequently levelled against
qualitative research?

61. What is ethnography?

62. What is snowball sampling?

63. What is theoretical sampling?

64. How does qualitative interviewing differ from structured interviewing?

65. What advantages might the focus group method offer in contrast to an
individual qualitative interview?

66. What is discourse analysis?

67. Why are ethical issues important in relation to the conduct of social
research?

68. Why is the issue of ‘informed consent’ so hotly debated?

69. What is meant by suggesting that politics plays a role in social research?

70. What is a review of literature? Why is it important to research?