Crafting a Research Question –

I think possibly one of the hardest aspects of formulating a research paper is to come up with a simple yet powerful question.  What that might look like at this stage, I’m not entirely sure.  Therefore I think that the most sensible approach for me is to write down all of my ideas.  I have a number of potential ideas pertaining to ‘Information Overload’ including: subliminal messaging, overlooked information, hidden information, coded information, changed information, missing information and the list goes on…

During a couple of our zoom sessions we tried out continuous writing and I wondered if that would actually help me with my process of defining what it is I actually want to do?  Below is a short time-lapse video of me continuously free writing for around five minutes.

Free Writing Exercise

My ‘Time of the Signs’ project really did enlighten me about the sheer volume of environmental information that we are all subjected to on a daily basis.  This led me to query whether or not this may be having a detrimental effect on humans?  It may well turn out that it has no effect at all except leaving a ‘messy’ environment cluttered with signs.  It was with this background in mind that I launched into my free writing exercise which I’ve documented below.

Digitised Hand Written Brainstorming

I particularly like the white on black writing so I digitised my notes and inverted them.  I have added the actual notes so that I can use them as reference.  I may need to produce more but these have given me a starting point.

What Next?

My plan is to take some of these ideas forward and have a conversation about it with ChatGPT3.