Conducting fieldwork on children and media: comparing research in Singapore and Vietnam

ABSTRACT

Reflecting on our experiences conducting fieldwork on children’s media use in Singapore and Vietnam, this commentary highlights the need for researchers to develop critical understanding of different cultural and societal factors at play in diverse research environments.

KEYWORDS:

• fieldwork challenges
• cultural contexts
• Singapore
• Vietnam

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Notes on contributors

Becky Pham

Becky Pham is currently a Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. She researches how families, young people and migrants appropriate new media, and how their media engagement shapes their worldview and lived experience. Her research has been published in New Media & Society, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, and in notable edited volumes. Email: [email protected]

Renae Sze Ming Loh

Renae Sze Ming Loh is currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands with the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). Her project examines the effect of students’ information communication technology (ICT) competencies on their academic performance. She is also interested in understanding the influence of family-, school- and country-level factors on this relationship. She has published work with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and journals such as Body Image, and Telematics and Informatics.