Saturday 7 February 2009

New I phone app

Just found an app that means I can blog from my mobile phone - so, I am trying it out. Will see how easy this is to use- might mean that there is more garbage put up on my blog now!

Went to the library today - had a bit of a panic over the size of this thesis- still slightly freaked at the moment. Will blog again when I have something useful to say.

Friday 6 February 2009

Thesis structure

Like I said before, this is going to be my external brain! so forgive me for splurging a little (if anyone is actually reading this!) I have just been reading about the social history of broadcasting - and yes it is quite interesting! and I was thinking last week that my thesis was to large in scope - then I talked to Barbara - thanks Barbara - and she suggested that I should not limit things to early on, and I think that she might have been right. I think that there might actually be room for work on the earlier period (1922-1939) and looking at radio broadcasting. There are links between the periods, and I can always do more research on the war years post PhD - if that ever happens! Anyway, I really wanted to just make a note of that thought so that I can come back to the structure of this thesis and remember I thought this!

Thursday 5 February 2009

Writing Stress!

Well, this is my first foray into blogging, actually, into anything IT really! I hope that this is going to be a useful tool for me and more importantly, for the PhD. I do sometimes think of it as a separate entity that I struggle to get hold of at times, but hope that over time this will become easier, and one day I will look back on this whole experience and be glad that I did it. That the dream!
I am in the middle of writing a second piece for my supervisors at the moment, using various media sources (a TV series called About Britain from the 1970's at the moment) to help explain how regional identity has been influenced by the media. I feel a little like I am explaining the obvious at the moment - the importance of source material, the importance of context, of the author/producer/presenter and their influence on the work, what audience this went out to, and why, and finally, how we can best use these sources in our work today. I feel a little constrained and really want to get on with the broad theoretical outline of my work. At the moment that has been put on hold, and I am not very happy about that.

Anyway, we will give this blog a go. I think I will post interesting articles, conferences, book reviews, etc up here and pass comments on them for fun. I hope that at some point, others will join in with this too.