Welcome back once again! The semester is starting to close out, only a few more weeks and we will be done. However, we are not there yet, so another week, another blog! For this weeks blog post I am just going to be talking a little bit about my research project. We have a lot of freedom with the upcoming posts in regards to what we want to actually put into the blog posts, but whatever it is it must relate to the research project.
So my research project started out in Blog 10: Exploring American Zeitgeist. In the blog post, I talked about the beginnings of my research project. I answered various questions that helped me lay out the framework for my research project. As the answer to the first question stated, I wanted to do my research on the negative affects of social media on young adults starting college. However, once we sat back down in class and talked about it more I realized that this was not the right direction to go in. So I looked into it more and I am going to change my research topic. Now, I am not going to change it drastically, I am just going to make it less broad and more focused. So the focus of my research project is going to be: Cell Phones as a zeitgeist. When I looked at my research question I asked what social media is mostly attributed to the negative affects on people. I realized it wasn't one type or one certain app, but in fact it was the phones. So the main question that I am going to be researching is "Why are phones an American Zeitgeist and why will they continue to be". The focus is going to be on younger college students just like before, somewhere in the first year or two of college. I figured that the overall negative affects come from the fact we have phones on us at all times, and they are the things leading to distractions. Without having a small computer in our pocket many of the problems with social media wouldn't arise. Therefore, it makes more sense that a zeitgeist for American young adults in college would be cell phones. More to come in my research paper, so stay tuned.
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Yuki Yamato
11/11/2019 09:41:21 pm
I look forward to seeing how you will do research and compose the first draft of your research project. Let's try our best!
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Yuki Yamato
11/12/2019 05:24:27 am
I found two websites that might help your research project. I provided the links below, so, please check them.
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Sabatino
11/12/2019 05:53:18 pm
Thanks, Yuki, for the providing a potential resource. And thanks to Doug for providing a clear conversation about shifting the topic and focus of the research project. This post suggests our last class helped you make meaning...good stuff!
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