Objectives, again…

I started typing out a rather emo and frustrated post about my research objectives earlier today, and then abandoned it as I decided it would probably be a more fruitful use of my time to do some reading about research methods, rather than bitch about my inability as a researcher. Anyway, out of the blue, I seem to have come up with four objectives that I actually quite like, and which actually sound somewhat-sortof-pseudo intelligent. Sort of. Number three is probably superfluous but I’m waiting to discuss it w/ supervisor before I give it the boot. So:

1.    Explore the usefulness of blogging – specifically, the narration of one’s everyday life and the construction of the self as a character or personality – in the adoption of a sense of self, and assess the significance of this narrative being available for public consumption.
2.    Promote the idea that identity is inherently tied to place, and that narrative is an essential way of negotiating the self in a virtual setting as it enables the “mapping” of one’s individuality and experience.
3.    Consider the role that the relationship between geographical space and cyberspace  (and the manner in which they intersect on the Internet to contribute to “place”) plays in the construction of self.
4.    Illustrate the negotiation of place as the intersection of space and ideology in a non-physical manner (i.e., how we as human beings are coming to understand ourselves and our place in the world given that we cannot rely upon our corporeal navigation of landscapes or the physical opposition of self to other objects and people).

How does that look? Maybe with those things in mind I can take the whip and crack it over the widely-spreading behind of my Background section (which, in all honesty, is a pile of loosely related information trying its hardest to come across as a coherent piece of academic writing, but failing dismally).

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