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’ […]
