Thank you for your willingness to help me with my
senior capstone!
I have put together everything that you will need. If
you have any questions please email me at jleavi32@dmail.dixie.edu
anytime or you can phone me at 435-705-4189 between the hours of 9 am and 8 pm.
First: Read the informed consent form (below) before
starting. If you wish not to participate that is just fine.
Second: Please fill out and return the “The Pre-Experiment Survey”. This needs to be done before you do the experiment.
Third: Here is the fun part! You get to track your
social media usage. (No judgment on how often you use it, in fact this is a
case where ‘more is better’.) Please do this using a digital journal. Either a
word document, a google document or just in a body of an email. Please thoroughly read the experiment instructions that are below. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. While tracking
your usage please be sure to date your entries. The experiment needs to last
two weeks, marking your dates will ensure that you don’t do too much or too
little. Please send me all of your entries. Be as open and honest as possible. Your
entries will go directly to me and no one else will see them. The more truthful
you are the more accurate my research will be.
Fourth: Once you have finished the experiment please
fill out and return the “The Post-Experiment Survey”. This is in two parts and here is the second part.
Fifth: Feel good about yourself for helping a
college student fulfill her dream of graduating!
NOTE: You can send each section back to me
individually or all at once. However, to ensure the most accurate results it
would be better to return the “Pre-Experiment Survey” to me BEFORE you begin
the experiment.
INFORMED CONSENT FORM:
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Dixie
State University Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Informed
Consent
(use
this form if the research is anonymous)
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Research Title
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Social Media: Do You
Still Trust Your Friends?
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Principal
Investigator
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Eric Young
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E-Mail and Phone
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young@dixie.edu,
435-652-7801
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Student Researcher
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Jessica Leavitt
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E-Mail and Phone
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Jleavi32@dmail.dixie.edu, 705-4189
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Department
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Communication
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Phone and Fax
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435-879-4320
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Department Address
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Jennings Building
126
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Voluntary Participation Statement
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You must be 18 years old or older to
participate.
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Your responses will be ANONYMOUS. Please do not write your name, social
security number, and/or other ID numbers anywhere.
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You may skip question(s) you do not want
to answer and discontinue the study at any time for any reason without
penalty.
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The survey will be explained to you (i.e., why
conducting the survey, how to do the survey, anticipated time to finish the
survey, any risks/benefits or compensation for doing the survey).
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You may ask questions at any time.
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It will NOT affect your relationship
with the researcher(s), principal investigator, the department, and/or Dixie
State University if you choose not to participate.
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Your return of the survey implies your consent to
participate in the study.
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I. Purpose, procedures, and duration of the study
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For this research prospectus the design will be qualitative. The
questions that are asked can’t be answered through a simple survey. They
require an in-depth look at social media usage and its affects. The research
will be made up of pre-experiment surveys and post-experiment surveys. The
surveys will take approximately 15 minutes. The experiment will be two weeks
long taking between 15-30 minutes a day.
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II. Risks/benefits of and compensation or confidentiality for participants
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There are no risks
or compensation for this study. The benefits will be a deeper understanding
of social media and its effect on our personal relationships.
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Contact Information
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Please contact your researcher, principal investigator, and/or
Department listed above if you would like to see the results of the study.
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Report to Andrea Brown,
Chair, Institutional Review Board, regarding: (1) the conduct of the
research, (2) your rights as a participant, and/or (3) a research-related
injury at (435) 652-7595 or by
e-mail abrown@dixie.edu.
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Thank you for your
participation.
EXPERIMENT INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The duration of the experiment will be two weeks long.
2. Please monitor and record times and amount of time on social media.
3. Please record reactions to friend’s posts – do you think they are telling the truth as much as possible, or are they prettying it up?
4. Please provide a brief description of what you feel after each usage.
5. Please provide a brief description of the affects their social media usage has on your face-to-face interaction.
6. Please record whether your thoughts and reactions are different based on your social media usage.
7. Please also track what you post and record any differences in what actually happened and what you posted.
2. Please monitor and record times and amount of time on social media.
3. Please record reactions to friend’s posts – do you think they are telling the truth as much as possible, or are they prettying it up?
4. Please provide a brief description of what you feel after each usage.
5. Please provide a brief description of the affects their social media usage has on your face-to-face interaction.
6. Please record whether your thoughts and reactions are different based on your social media usage.
7. Please also track what you post and record any differences in what actually happened and what you posted.
