Blog #1- Topic Interests
Potential topic ideas:
I could definitely write a report on Utah Tech's website's functionality. I could structure my personal experience and get people from various backgrounds to try to find 3-5 locations. They could be timed, and the total number of links pressed could be measured. Teachers, staff, students, strangers, UI design students, music students, and math students. Is a low click rate due to the page being hard to find, or simply because few people need it?
Another good one is deconstructing Spencer Cox's recent proposal to sell public lands, which was thankfully shot down from the BBB. Hidden agenda and who was most motivated and by what reason. Why was their propaganda so effective? This wasn't a liberal/conservative split. It was personal or research-based.
Something more relevant to tech writing is the "dead internet "theory. It is estimated that 50% of all internet interactions are computer-to-computer, with no humans involved. Is this bloat necessary or leftover innovation?
I think there is a possibility for impact with your first topic idea. Evaluating the functionality of Utah Tech's website could possibly implement a change on campus. I think if you can get the data for it and talk to the right people I think this would be a great opportunity for a research topic.
ReplyDeleteI think looking at Spencer Cox's proposal has a lot of overlap with political theory and psychology. It would be worth looking into the why it is was effective, but, without researching other examples and synthesizing those points, using only one example probably doesn't get to the root of the problem or the research involved.
Topic: Utah Tech Students' use of AI
ReplyDeleteGoal: Find out to what degree students of Utah Tech are using AI, GPT, or LLMs in their academic or personal lives.
Questions: What degree of use are students applying AI (4-5 levels)?
What academic year is the student?
What is the student's declared major?
Type: Qualitative
Methods: Interviews
Surveys