Peer's Unobtrusive Research Blogs

Unobtrusive research is happening around us all the time. We take part in this nonstop because we are always observing others and coming to conclusions about them. Lisa Perez made great points about this in her blog from last week. She uses the paparazzi as a very good example. She explains how they are able to follow around celebrities every move without being caught (for the most part). Another student who's blog i enjoyed was Christina Heilman's. She wrote about the presidential election of 2008. Since everyone is obsessed with social media now, Obama and his campaign knew that they had to get involved with facebook, twitter, etc to win the younger votes. And when McCain admitted "he didn't know how to work a computer" I am sure many younger, first time voters didn't like that too much so that gave Obama alot more votes. The unobtrusive research that Obama did to find out that they needed to get on the social media scene led him to the victory. Unobtrusive research is very important. You are doing it all the time, even if you don't even know it.