I know you probably don't really want to be hearing this, but VERY soon you are going to have to start thinking about an area to research, in the lead up to your dissertations!
I just wanted to show quickly, how research doesn't just come from a 'reading list', but how you have to keep your eyes open, read the papers, magazines etc and start to keep notes or a file of stuff that might be useful. So, just from yesterdays paper, I found an article on product placement, which would be useful if you were discussing advertising, subliminal influencing of viewers, or the integrity of British TV....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349936/Simon-Cowells-American-Idol-Coca-Cola-product-placement-transform-UK-TV.html
...and an artcle on the dangers of social networking sites, which you could discuss in relation to reality, changes in the way we communicate, and our relationships with others.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1349778/Facebook-Twitter-make-human-isolate-real-world.html
From this one article, I was able to get some names to check out - for example, Professor Sherry Turkle, which led me to her book, Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, which discusses how technology in our modern lives leaves us, 'less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.'(www.google.co.uk/books)
So you see, once you get started, it's all about following the clues, from one source to another...
Well, there you go...Hope that might be useful to someone!
I just wanted to show quickly, how research doesn't just come from a 'reading list', but how you have to keep your eyes open, read the papers, magazines etc and start to keep notes or a file of stuff that might be useful. So, just from yesterdays paper, I found an article on product placement, which would be useful if you were discussing advertising, subliminal influencing of viewers, or the integrity of British TV....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349936/Simon-Cowells-American-Idol-Coca-Cola-product-placement-transform-UK-TV.html
...and an artcle on the dangers of social networking sites, which you could discuss in relation to reality, changes in the way we communicate, and our relationships with others.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1349778/Facebook-Twitter-make-human-isolate-real-world.html
From this one article, I was able to get some names to check out - for example, Professor Sherry Turkle, which led me to her book, Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, which discusses how technology in our modern lives leaves us, 'less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.'(www.google.co.uk/books)
So you see, once you get started, it's all about following the clues, from one source to another...
Well, there you go...Hope that might be useful to someone!
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