After choosing this topic I thought I would have plenty of available studies and reports to choose from for research, but finding them has been a bit troublesome. Finding new wells of sources or information has been rare and tiresome.
Family dynamics is a popular topic, which is evident through most conversation in the media that talks about different family types and remarrying and stepchildren and mixed families and the list goes on and on. Finding interesting and relevant topics is not as easy as all of that would make it seem though. The majority of my research has therefore come from dissertations and studies I have found through databases. I hope to find a few more to use for my final analysis paper.
Working out ways to utilize information that is not blatantly relevant will be a challenge, but I also plan to use the few sources I have found efficiently in my paper. There are a number of different dissertations in databases that could be of use if analyzed properly. The search for other blogs that pertain to my subject is ongoing however and I hope to find at least one to use as reference in my paper.
You might want to think about expanding your idea of community. You really can expand in a variety of ways: one way is to move beyond blogs. What if there aren't many people blogging about adoption or fostering? So what about websites, newspapers that focus on family issues, books, etc.? Or you can expand the community you consider yourself a part of. Maybe you move more broadly into "family" blogging?
ReplyDeleteI love the idea that you're using dissertations! That's fabulous. Definitely show us some of those community members (no matter the type) next week.