Practical explorations - Idea one - Independent publication

I decided to create a small independent publication to gain a great understanding of this I first need to understand why and how people consume this type of media. I,d like to know there preference in relation to print vs digital also. To find this information I will create questionnaires to begin, which I will send around my peers.

• What do I want to discover?
• How do I plan on discovering it? (This is called your research methods or methodology)
• Who am I going to talk to/observe/survey? (These people are called your subjects or participants)
• How am I going to be able gain access to these groups or individuals? 
• What are my biases about this topic?
• How can I make sure my biases are not reflected in my research methods?
• What do I expect to discover?

I want to discover what makes people buy into independent magazines, what gets them going back to them and how I can apply this to create my own small publication. 

I plan to use a survey to begin then moving on gradually as the brief processes. 

To begin I will be surveying, peers within my class as well as friends and family, again as I progress I will look into extending this to, people in relation with my chosen topic. 

I will find people face to face but will look into ways I could put this online. 

My biases with this to being will be only survey students within the age range of 19-21 

I expect to discover why people purchase independent magazines, and which topic are peoples favourite. 


As I have not conducted a survey before I decided to look into tips, https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/559/ t


'If BuzzFeed is a cup of dehydrated instant coffee consumed quickly to caffeinate on the subway, the neo-indie magazine is an expensive, labored-over cappuccino one sips slowly in the glow of good lighting.'