Items I have learnt in this project regarding Japanese culture and research method
I have been more familiar with the ordinance about ACG and how do the Japanese think of that ordinance. Although ACG industry occupies the majority of Japanese economy, only a small group of people pay attention to the ordinance about ACG in Japan. It seems that ACG is still regarded as a kind of subculture in Japan.
From the survey projects of my classmates, I have learnt how the Japanese think of animations and comics, Hong Kong and marriage. Also, I have known more about the living habits and interests towards travelling of the Japanese.
With regard to research method, I have learnt how to make a well-designed questionnaire. Firstly, we should limit the number of questions as less as possible because of restriction placed by the website. Secondly, we should give a brief introduction of our topic to the respondents. Thirdly, we should avoid using any specific or technical terms (try to give some explanations when those terms are used). Also, we should add comment columns to allow respondents to give feedback. Besides, we should ask the questions as specific as possible for accuracy. Finally, we should be objective when asking questions.
Changes I would like to make in the future project
- To translate all Japanese comments into English or paraphrase those comments
- To post our survey on other websites visited by more people for collecting more data
Things I have found out concerning our expected results
The followings are the differences between the results and our expectation:
- Only a few Japanese know about the ordinance
- The respondents do not think that the ordinance would affect the Japanese economy
- The respondents do not agree that the ordinance would affect the industry of animation and comics
Although most of the Japanese are opposed to the ordinance as we expected, they think that the ordinance will make small impact on Japan, which is different from our expectation.
Suggestions I can make for this project
We can make a website to introduce the ordinance for those who are not familiar with it and post it on our online survey. We should also introduce Ishihara Shintarou, the producer, to the respondents. Otherwise, they cannot answer the question about him.
Other project’s activities I can think of
Self-reflection
To talk about what we have learnt from the project as well as the whole course.
Cosplay
It seems that many students in HKU SPACE are interested in ACG; cosplay may provide an opportunity for them to understand that culture more.
You may need the Miku Miku dressing for you if the cosplay event were organized. Either for your self-making-up or just for taking photos.
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Cosplaying as an project may be it is not common to everyone, or not everyone can accept it. However, this is my opinion.
回覆刪除Me too. I also think that it is hard to accept since I don't like ACG very much...
回覆刪除Thanks for your opinions =]
回覆刪除I also think self-reflection is much better than cosplay. That's why I mention it first
In fact, cosplay is more funny although it's not suitable for our project's activity XD
I think not all of the students like Japanese culture only because of ACG. To make it more easy to be accepted, maybe some traditional cultures would be suitable such as "origami" or wearing "yukata"? XD
回覆刪除Thank you for suggestion =]
回覆刪除I like "origami" and we can also pray for Japan
i agree with reika's idea.I know that there are a lot of students will watch animation but not the crazy lover,and some of the students only love J pop(3dimensional(?)).Therefore, the traditional culture is better~
回覆刪除First of all, thanks for your hard work in this project, sei you really help us a lot and put many efforts on it.
回覆刪除Well, there were many limitations when doing this survey, hope that we can do better and make some improvement next time:)