I am researching on the experiences and engagements of rural and urban children with new media forms and particularly interrogate the place of the old media in their lives.
To help you with answers, here are my core research questions:
The central question that this study intends to ask is: What constitutes the experiences and engagements of adolescent children (aged 12 – 17) in Nigeria in regard to their use of new media, in juxtaposition to the old, mainstream media? Other questions to be explored would then include:
I. What media platforms are more available to them; and as such, what media platforms do they make the most use of?
II. What constitutes their uses and gratifications from old and new media?
III. What constitutes their perception of traditional and new media and technologies?
IV. What differences or similarities exist in the intersection of digital technologies, rural and urban children in Nigeria?
What is the place of new media and digital technologies in these children’s lives?
Thank you.
You could always start with the technology-acceptance-model and investigate differences for your specific sample demographics:
Venkatesh, V., & Davis, F. D. (2000). A theoretical extension of the technology acceptance model: Four longitudinal field studies. Management science, 46(2), 186-204.
Straub, D., Keil, M., & Brenner, W. (1997). Testing the technology acceptance model across cultures: A three country study. Information & management, 33(1), 1-11.
Transformative Theoretical Lens and the Technology Acceptance Model as Jonas Heller suggests
Take a look at the research on hyperpersonal communication.
Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer-mediated communication impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication research, 23(1), 3-43.
You could look at the concept of polymedia. Madianou and Miller found mediated communication does not take place over a single technology but by choosing among and commingling a variety of media technologies.
Miller, Daniel and Madianou, M. (2012). Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia. London: Routledge
Also the introduction in the book by Herbig, A., Herrmann, A. F., & Tyma, A. W. (Eds). (2015). Beyond new media: Discourse and critique in a polymediated age. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, p. xx.
You may pick up one or two of the models that exists in 'Cognitive Development' and 'Social Change' that fits into your objectives.
There perception will depend on the penetration of the media - conventional or Digital media, but what matters is the component of information. The process of image making will be the same as marked by any of the films, TV serials, and now YouTube. Startling absence of past memory, visual or otherwise helps creating a new image created by the media.
Technology acceptance model definitely. I am presuming that you are conducting a qualitative study, since you are looking at gratifications and perceptions. In that case, you could look at Bronfenbrenner's Bio-ecological Systems Theory or could go all out on the lived experience of your participants and move into hermeneutic phenomenology. If you do that, I would recommend van Manen.
Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Towards an Experimental Ecology of Human Development. American Psychologist, 32(7), 513-531.
van Manen, M. (1990) Researching Lived Experience. New York: SUNY Press
Theory : Mediamorphosis - daily media use :
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272326308_Mediamorphosis_Analyzing_the_Convergence_of_Digital_Media_Forms_alongside_African_Traditional_Media
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311456767_Everyday_digital_media_use_in_a_life_course_perspective
Article Mediamorphosis: Analyzing the Convergence of Digital Media F...
Conference Paper Everyday digital media use in a life course perspective
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