Instructions: There are 2 responses. Read each and write a 100 word response for each.

Response 1.) Carter

Thus far, my dissertation topic investigates the relationship between agritourism, social media, and online reviews. I have fairly extensively researched agritourism, tourism in general, online reviews, and agritourism’s association with social media. I am currently deliberating concerning two issues.

The first issue that I am working through relates to the scope of the topic. Agritourism is a catch-all term for a variety of activities including farm stays, on-farm festivals, u-pick direct sales, agriculture classes, farm tours, and weddings. I am debating whether to address agritourism as a whole or to narrow the topic to a specific type of activity. Secondly, I am pondering the scope pertaining to social media and online reviews. Questions that I am considering include:

• Which social media platforms should be investigated (e.g., Facebook and Pinterest)?
• Which online review websites should be investigated (e.g., Trip Advisor)?
• Should customer social media posts be reviewed or just farm social media posts?

The second issue I am considering concerns the type of research to be conducted. I have located an article that discusses a method to analyze customer reviews from TripAdvisor .com; however, I am not supremely confident in my ability to repeat the technique discussed in the article. After all, the article uses a team of experienced researchers.

Response 2.) Kimberly

I feel that I have found a topic that is acceptable but will still work on it with the research that I will gather to further narrow the topic to be more specific.

The topic I have chosen to discuss is the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact that mental health has had on healthcare workers returning to the workplace. I will take into consideration the information that has been included in feedback from everyone. I wish to include information that speaks of the start of COVID-19 and other forms of pandemics that have affected life for people previously and compare it to the recent and still current pandemic. Understanding the progression of how these types of diseases affect people will help understand if there is a pattern of this type of mental health crisis. Knowing mental health is very important in any field, especially in the medical profession, one must be able to help determine how much disease and death affects the mind. The mind is a powerful organ that must be researched to understand how it works when a pandemic changes how life is and will be following such great change that no one was prepared for. Completing this research, I hope to present or at least give insight as to how the mental health of the healthcare worker prepares and manages themselves to handle the outcome of what a pandemic can do to the mental health of the worker and ways to handle it.