DA Essay Draft/Notes

For my Discourse Analysis Essay I chose the Chat Room Transcript. This transcript interested me because I think there is a certain relationship between the interviewer and the person being interviewed. At some points in the transcript the interviewer does not even have to ask the person being interviewed any questions in order to get feedback. I felt as if this interview was very laid back. The interviewer seemed to actually have a normal conversation with the person. Does an interview have to be all about questioning? Can it be an actual conversation? Does it make the person being interviewed more relaxed and comfortable?
I would examine this essay by looking at the importance of social contexts. Are there certain ways that people interact with eachother? How do people interact with strangers? Does casual conversation make it easier for a person to feel comforable rather than using questions?
I noticed that in the beginning of the transcript the interviewer makes a joke about publishing the interview; does humor help a person relax?
One question I would definitely ask throughout my essay is:
Why is it easier for a person to talk to someone through a computer? Does face-to-face interaction make a person feel inferior?
The person being interviewed talked with a person in a chatroom and told them their telephone number. If the person being interiewed had seen the person they were talking with face-to-face, would they have even spoken to eachother?
I think that technology makes people too trusting and vulnerable.

Blog 5: Research Project Revised

I have narrowed it down to researching why murder mysteries are so popular in literature. Since I have narrowed it down, I have come up with a few ideas on how to begin my project. I want to research the age groups of the people that read murder mysteries and when it first became a fad. I want to interview one person and ask them several questions.

1. What makes murder mysteries so interesting?
2. What made you read this type of literature? (school or personal reasons)
3. At what age did you become interested?
4.Have movies based of murder mysteries made you read more books?
5.Do you strictly read murder mystery books or do you read poems/short    stories/articles also?

I am considering a particular question to base my paper on:

What made murder mystery books so popular and why?

I am still unsure about the question but I am sure with further investigation I will decide on a more permanent question.