Jess, Liam, Anna, Ellie and myself all met up today to discuss topic ideas for the project. We have decided to research how the University relays information to its students. To analyse this we are considering multimedia texts including; Redbrick Newspaper, e-mails (between us and lecturers), careers leaflets and the Univeristy's Facebook and Twitter pages. These types of media will gives us different ways in which information is conveyed, as well as fitting in nicely with the theme of multimedia in this module.
We are all going to find; two pieces of media and two pieces of research or studies each to bring to our next meeting on Monday.
We haven't got a solid question or particular linguistic device to focus on as of yet. But we have decided that as we do our initial research in the next few days, that we will be able to find a focus in time for week 3 and the formal proposal.
A great idea! You might want to look at some studies Norman Fairclough has done on a similar topic. Our own Charles Owen was interested in this too, though I don't know if he published anything before he left: he did collect quite a bit of data. One perspective you could take is a diachronic one - that is, (how) has such communication changed over time? But that might be hard to do in the time available for this project, as you'd need access to older texts for comparison. Could be something to think about for future projects, though. Keep us posted as your plans take shape.
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