1.Cross Disciplinary
Cross-disciplinary refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or the politics of literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary (27 October 2012)
2.Inter Disciplinary
Inter-disciplinary refers to new knowledge extensions that exist between or beyond existing academic disciplines or professions. The new knowledge may be claimed by members of none, one, both, or an emerging new academic discipline or profession.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary (27 October 2012)
3.Trans-Disciplinary
In practice, trans-disciplinary can be thought of as the union of all interdisciplinary efforts. While interdisciplinary teams may be creating new knowledge that lies between several existing disciplines, a transdisciplinary team is more holistic and seeks to relate all disciplines into a coherent whole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary (27 October 2012)
4. Qualitative Research
Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of decision making, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than large samples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research (27 October 2012)
5. Ethnographic Studies/Research
Ethnography is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group. An ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing, the nature of a people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography (27 October 2012)
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Essay Topic-Describing your thoughts on media use.
Media refers to various media of communication and the messages that are distributed through the technology. In modern daily life, people will be contact with various types of media in a day. With the improvement of the technology nowadays, we can send, share or even exchange the information through media from time to time or whenever where we are. The media that using connects with friends or people is commonly known as social media.
Social media is one of the media that had existed for a long time but now it is become more well-known compared to before because it is convenience for the people communicate to each other. It has contributed a lot to our lives and it slowly changes the ways of how the people think and act for it. From social media, we can categorize many parts such as social networking, online video, blogging, and podcasting. But the main roles play by the social media is knowledge sharing, networking, information delivery and group discussion.
For nowadays, I believe that all of us will be agree that the most common and popular social media will be Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and Youtube. Let’s take Facebook as example to discuss, for me Facebook is playing as a part of my daily life and it has makes my life become much easier to get connect and updated with the news of my friend from time to time. Other than that, Facebook still can do with many others thing such as creating group for discussion, chatting with friends whenever they are or even video chatting which can live face to face communicate, and playing social games as well.
Blogging is one of the social media that already become part of daily life of teenager. In other words, it can be said that is daily diary for certain teenager. Nowadays the teenagers like to express their feelings and their activities by blogging. For those their friends that follow theirs blog is to get themselves stay closer to them by knowing what recently happen to them. Actually for me, blogging is quite enjoyable because we can share our experience and comment to friends through the blog.
At last, with the improvement of technology nowadays, not just only computer can access to the media, we also can access media by using our mobile phones which known as smart devices. For me I believe that media is important for all the people nowadays. It’s will slowly take part in our daily life that people cannot afford without it. From that, we should get use of media from now on but not over it because it also has its pros and cons.
