Its kinda bitter sweet that its already time to start the research paper Professor Flewelling has been talking about all semester. Sweet because that means the semester is past the halfway mark and the end is finally in view but bitter because well...I have to write a research paper. Just from reading and talking about the paper this sounds like it will be my most involved research paper. I think this I have only had to write one other research paper since my freshman year and even that one wasn't as in depth as this one seems to be.
I am not very sure what discourse community I want to observe and research about. I have a couple in mine but I will talk about the one I want to do, but I'm not sure if I will be able to get it to work. I'm thinking of exploring how landscape photographers of Instagram communicate with their followers. I want to know why they are posting. Is it to get feed back on their work? To get more followers? Or do they just like to share their pictures with others? Now that I'm thinking about it maybe I should change my focus to landscape photographers in general and they different genres they use to showcase their artwork. I have been involved in the photography world for a few years now and would love to see what kind of answers I could come up with in this research. For me photography has just been a hobby. I use a picture sharing website and have an Instagram but have never really been that serious about getting my pictures out there to show others. I think I would like to be more active in the photography realm and this research would give me a good glimpse of how I could go about doing so. The big question I hope to answer is why do other photographers feel the need to share their work in the first place.
Hopefully after my conference tomorrow, Professor Flewelling will help me guide my research in the good direction with photography to make this interesting for me.
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| One of my favorite pics I have taken :-) |
Hey Nick!
ReplyDeleteVery cool picture right there! I think it's pretty interesting that you're thinking about researching landscape Instagram photographers. I follow quite a few of them on my Instagram because I just love how their pictures turn out and often wonder how they managed to get such a beautiful shot. Some of them have quite a large follower count, and I wonder how they got to such a large count too! Hopefully your research turns out well, it's definitely something I'd be interested in reading. Photography is something I've always been interested in but never really took too seriously. Good luck with brainstorming and hope you have fun writing your paper! :D
- Julianna Duque
I am right there will you dreading the fact that the semester is coming to a close which means this final research paper is looming in the near distance and the due date will arrive before we know it. As far as your choice of research for a discourse community, I think that it will be a very interesting paper to write about these photographers that post on the Exchangegram. I hope your paper turns out well as I am still swimming in the sea of possible topics to choose not yet having concluded what I will do my paper on.
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Kina Bramlette
Great photo. I am very interested in where you end up going with this paper. Btw, great photo. EF
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