New Direction

I just freaked out a little about our research projects. I spent the past week after the Symposium reading up on satirical media. I think in any other year, this would be just as valuable a topic as any of the other ideas listed on our class blog. But as I read through the posts again, I noticed how much my topic didn't fit. But what I did notice was how many times I saw the word Twitter. It was everywhere, in the form of verbs, nouns and adjectives. For the past few months, I’ve been so sick of talking about this thing. But like I said in a previous post, I really don’t know anything about it, aside from the fact that it has made a huge splash in the communication world.

So maybe a better fitting topic (one that would benefit the class and myself) would be to look at Twitter specifically. I would want to do some basic stuff, such as what it is and how it started. But I think the more beneficial component would be to look at its effects on community and businesses. After the article that was in The Post about Twitter, I think there would be more local businesses that I could find to see if and how they are using the new form of media. I could even see how local student organizations are utilizing the tool. There are a lot of directions to go in, but I think this fits in to what Don was talking about(the idea of having access to technology), and in to someone else’s who wanted to investigate the usefulness and effects of blogging. (I know there were several posts on blogging, so this would fit in with a few of them I think.) If anyone has any thoughts on this, let me know. Also, if I missed something in the posts and someone already mentioned doing this specifically, let me know also. I don’t want to research something that someone has already put time and work into.

And who knows, maybe after I do this project I’ll find myself tweeting all the time.