Users Vulnerabilities to Cookies and Violation Practices and Protection Mechanisms This will give the objective for the research (8000words)
Should be able to show from the articles being read how they come from what has been read, what don’t we know yet about privacy and how people feel and what they think about this privacy issue. Refine these to find the 2 big research questions.
Looking at the different style of writing in an article from locating they ill explain the objectives of their research, so you can see the style. research books as well.
How aware are users of the implications of cookies? (investigate in more details, what research method is this positivist or interpretive) what method am I taking?
What is the ethical implication of the use of cookies for users?
From the articles read what philosophy did they take, were they looking for facts (positivist) or where they are looking for opinions (interpretive). In using this body of knowledge so far the article giving a more government/social based opinion so this is more of a positivist approach so when trying to figure out the users point of view an interpretive approach can be used this could serve as the difference (the gap to be found out ) in the research going further cause we don’t yet know enough from a consumers perspective
More current articles should be used (mainly within 5 years)
Literature review let’s take protection motivation theory
Who is the author and how did they come up with this theory, when did they come up with this theory (the origins)who, when , what was happening in order for it to be created , how was it tested , who tested the theory, what did they find , how did they test it and how many times did they test it , how has the theory changed as a result of this test
How have we looked at privacy and the things related to privacy,
Another question that can be used is “how aware are the users of the consequences of cookies” and “what do we know about the awareness of users on the implications of cookies”. Who has researched these and what have they been saying, literature review covers these 2 parts at the end of the literature review we can say here’s what we do know but here’s what we don’t know. What we don’t know will be examined in the research. these are the questions I’m going to design an interview question in order to close the gap in knowledge.
Protection motivation theory (consumer point of view)
Method of gathering data, questionnaire, interview questions
From this reading what will be the focus of the research project, what research philosophy will we take, what type of data and how am I going to gather it?
Other methodologies should be compared in the methodology chapter
(research carried out by these authors or institutions explores these scenarios and can up with this conclusion)
