How is twitter affecting college students communication in the US today vs. 2005 before it's invention?

I am writing about twitter and the culture that surrounds it. I will focus on trends and other things associated with twitter. I am wrting for non-twitter users (people who don't really know about twitter) to see how people interact on twitter vs. 2005 when twitter was being born. I assume that people are more involved in twitter speaking there mind on their than talking to their friends about their  issues. I hope to know why people vent on twitter, what makes twitter so apealing, and why people dedicate a lot of their time to it. I will interview people who have twitter, I will look at my twitter news feed, observe and take notes.

How is twitter affecting communication today?

My research question listed above is very interesting to me. It interests me because I can't image life without twitter facebook and texting. My parents grew up fine without any of those things and now life for every person my age revolves around them. This topic does not relate to my disipline, because I really cannot think of a math topic that I am interested at the moment. There should be lots of accurate information to answer my question. This topic is easy to collect data from, all I have to do is log into my twitter account and take notes about trends and stuff. I feel like a lot of people aren't using my topic, but they should because it is very interesting.

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Researching and Post-it notes

Susanas article gave me new strategies to get ready to start my research. First you need to gather your materials, second go threw the article and read critically and post-it note important information, and third you should walk away from your research until you have had a good break and then start it up again. This is really helpful because its hard to do all your research in one sitting. Her article is going to help my research for papers in this and other classes.

One in six million

This article is very interesting and easy to read. This tells me that if I find something I am passionate about researching the topic will be easy and fun. It also showed me how the author had to email people and research everywhere just find a small lead.

Linguistic Landscape Project

I would like to work with the genre of posters. I would like to use the topic equal rights for LGBT community. They can be posted in many places to get your point across. Posters are also hard to miss. There usually is a quick informative title and a larger font for important information because people aren't going to stand there and read the whole thing normally. You can either type up posters or create them with markers. Doors, garbage cans, and walls all around the quad are great places. They are good places because everyone walks by these items and they should be able to see it.

Susana Rodriguez article

Susana Rodriguez's article restated my views about apple. I like their products but their ads really jump out at you and make you think you need to have the product. This reminds me of the two image analysises we did in class a couple weeks ago, I chose one of these apple ads as well. Apple really knows how to make art tell you something which can really sell their products.