I didn’t know what to expect when I picked up this class. New communication technology has always been something I have taken for granted, never gave it a second thought. Social media had been, and still is, something that I use sparingly, but I’ve learned to be able to think about what outputs might result from the changes in different platforms. Another thing I wouldn’t have considered before is just what a huge step the change in technology has had on the way the world has structured itself in just the past 30 years.
Research Start
This week in class we brought in our ideas for our research paper and shared with a select few individuals. I know I would like my topic to be centered around communication in/through video games, but I’m having some trouble focusing that down into one viewpoint. While discussing this with others, we were able to come up with a few different ideas, like helpful versus trolling communication in games, the evolution of communication in video games, or how video games have changed the way we communicate in the physical world. Ultimately, when Dr. Wachanga visited our group, he told us that our main goal should be to tell a story. I’ll keep that in mind while looking over journal articles and hopefully that will help me find focus.