For my research project I chose to focus on twitter, zeroing in on the 140 character limit and how it has lead to the degradation of language. I think it is an important topic, and extremely pertinent as twitter's base continues to grow. In the past, people shared things in writing, privately via letter and publicly via printed news articles. In both these cases, although in the public sense more than the private, there was always a sense of importance to the language in addition to the content. In today's society, however, with "new media" sources giving a voice to everyone, people "put things to print" so to speak much faster than before, this creates a lack of editing and a society who not only overlooks minor spelling and grammar mistakes, but a society who has forgotten the poetry of language and the importance of word choice. The next step for me is to find research that discusses the link between twitter and the degradation of language, as well as research by linguists which discuss if there were other points in history in which language has seen such degradation.
A network that would allow for students to interact and share resources. Sort of like Facebook but specific for students to share academic resources.
I think this is a really interesting topic and that you're going into the linguistics of Twitter. There are a lot of implications that come with the use of Twitter and I am looking forward to seeing the outcome of your research. Be sure to mention how Twitter has increased their character limit to 280.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy someone is talking about twitter, I myself do not use it because of it's limiting nature. I am excited to read your work!!
ReplyDeleteI think your topic is very interesting and I don't think anyone else is focusing on twitter! I think that the 140 character limit has been in controversy for a while and I think they have raised it to 280. I am interested to see what research you do and find!
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