At the moment,
the main thing on my mind is this first Writing Project. I really have no definite idea on what kind of topic I want to write about, or even if any small ideas of mine would be academically acceptable. One topic
I was thinking about covering is the MLB Playoffs that are going on right now.
Reddit has a plethora of baseball-related subreddits that could possibly
function as my three platforms. Yet I feel like this may be a little too
specific in terms of my genre, and the conventions for each would be too
closely related to analyze closely. I could also look at the way different sports pages or websites handle certain topics like maybe the Tom Brady Deflation scandal or any other major event that has been covered heavily in the news. On a different note, I feel like this class
is helping my visual literacy in terms of analyzing genres and seeing
conventions where I didn’t before. As I browse the internet in-between these
sentences, I see why certain tweets are more popular than others (follows the
conventions), why some Instagram posts get more likes (follows the
conventions), and why some comments of Reddit get down-voted to the pits of
internet hell (follows the conventions). I am now going to become famous after
exploitation of these conventions. Just kidding, what I am actually going to do
is watch this Playoff Game and analyze the conventions of the genre of Sports Broadcasting.
Slider Joe,
ReplyDeletePeace Corps and TFA are both lovely ideas. Make it happen. ☺
Re: PB1A, movie/TV preview blurbs are defffffffffinitely their own genre. I like how you used “constraints,” and I like how you mentioned that they’ve got to give details about the show but not so much that they spoil anything. Something that’d be interesting (for me… maybe not anybody else) to know is if the season/grand premiere has more or less text than the episodes in the middle of a series—do they use more written language to draw in potential viewers who haven’t seen the entire series yet? Possibly, right? Based on the screen shot image you posted, some other conventions are the # of episodes, the stars that users have given it, and a maturity rating.
You might be wondering: so what? What value does this have? Well, as you continue through college and beyond, if you’re able to specifically pinpoint the conventions of various genres, you’ll be able to (1) more effectively evaluate individual pieces for their “goodness” and (2) much more likely adopt/adapt some of these conventions in your own writing. That’s huge, and you acknowledged just as much in your PB1B post. ☺
Re: PB1B, I love this line: “if choosing the Boromir (Lord of the Rings)meme, many people know that it is for sarcastically making fun of events or situations that are a little but more complicated than people think..” So cool. Way to follow that up with a meme about genre.
As far as the ideas you laid out in Thlog #2 for WP#1, well… you could compare user-driven message boards. Reddit, Craigslist, and maybe… the comment posts on online news articles—that’s usually a place where people can comment on each other’s posts and start a dialogue. Someone in class mentioned YikYak and although I don’t know what that is yet, that could be an option.
Z