I’m once again kind of switching my project around. One thing I’m looking at is analyzing multimodal texts with sound. I think there’s probably a way to use sound to begin an analysis of a text and still include other forms of meaning making. Many online multimodal texts incorporate visuals and sound in away that works together to make an argument. My project looks like it will be focusing on analyzing sound as a rhetorical feature of an online text. I’m thinking of focusing on one or two “ads” presented by adbusters. This kind of approach will focus my project on something doable in a semester as well as something I can contextualize around other interest in the mode of sound and multimodality as a whole.
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Brian,
Sounds (ha!) like you have some great ideas about your research topic! It seems like there’s a lot out there on the use of images/visuals in the writing classroom but less about using sound.
I know that I’m at this stage in my research too where I need to narrow my topic, and it seems like that’s something you might be thinking about too. Is there one aspect of sound that you find really interesting? I’m just thinking you might want to focus your topic down even a bit more…How do the adbusters use sound? If you pick a specific mode or avenue (like music and meaning via video) and then talk about how using this could be beneficial, I’d be fascinated to read a paper like that!
I’m sure you’ll come up with something great.