Possibilities for the Seminar Paper

thinking toward the seminar paper

What ideas are you flirting with or otherwise considering for your paper?

I want to do something about the union protests for a few reasons. First, it could help me work through the shock of it all. Second, it's pressing. Third, it was mediated in about a gajillion ways. I'm thinking of starting with a discussion of the mass media and the somewhat-censorship-like-way in which they covered the protests, but I know that's not "media-y" enough yet. I'll work on it in that direction and see what I can get out of it.

What will you need to do to develop these ideas into a paper-length consideration?

A new brain. (Joke)

No, I'll need to meet with Anne and talk to some of my classmates, but I think more than anything I'll need to reread the materials from the course (which I've been having trouble keeping in my brain anyway - maybe related to the shock, maybe related to the density of some of them, most likely related to a combination of both) and think about what light they can shed on the work I want to do. I'll also need to spend hours an dhours and hours in the library.

What assistance from others could you use in thinking this through?

I could use many, many sets of eyes. I work best in f2f conversations, and I could use a few of those with classmates/Anne to make sure I'm working in the right direction.

What ideas do you have about how we can use online resources (as well as the other resources of class) to support you in writing the most kick-ass (or insert otherwisely appropriate adjective here) seminar paper of which you are capable?

Actually, online resources will be really useful for me for different reasons than most people, I think. Because the whirlwind of mind-blowing cacophony (from which I am still recovering ;( ...) surrounding the union protests, I am unable to remember discrete moments during that time. In fact, I don't even really recall my birthday, which was February 25th, because of everything else that happened. I've never really suffered such a huge shock before, so it's uncharted territory. But the archive of posts from our union Twitter feed and from my personal Facebook page could help me remember what happened in a more specific way than I can from memory (insert Steigler here, I'm sure) and help me find the sources I need to reference the union protests as accurately and hopefully as objectively as possible.