I have spent some time putting together some key areas of my dissertation which should help inform and allow me to draw conclusions on my dissertation question “Does UK radio have a viable role as a social tool and media platform in the future”. I have decided to focus on the UK, otherwise i think my arguments will become too convoluted. Here are some of the key areas i have outlined:

Changing roles of radio
Where did it come from? How was it perceived? What was its primary focus? How has this changed [...]

Having spent a lot of time contemplating, i’ve realised that my original idea for my dissertation (the avatar) just really wasn’t appealing enough to me. It was one of the first ideas i’d had, and under pressure to write proposals and abstracts i had settled for it.

I had a good think, and the one thing i kept coming back to as a topic was radio. Having spent an interesting year in radio, it is the ideal candidate for me to base my dissertation on. I’m interested in exploring the ins and [...]

Well, we are being strongly urged to get on the case with our dissertations, and having recently handed in a proposal and abstract that is certainly the case. The idea i have been focusing on is the Avatar.

The working title i am going with for the moment is ‘How does the increased reliance on avatars as a means for personal representation on the web affect human interactive behaviour?’. Pretty heavy, but i find its an interesting question, and with the real boom in digital interaction in mainstream internet [...]