COP essay question proposal:

COP essay question proposal

Considering culture and how people don't specifically consider this generation to have any newly formed sub cultures.

I am becoming interested in this generation X + Y and how every teenager is on facebook and can be found online. Specifically how this generation is spending this life on the internet and it could potentially be complicating young people's minds but doesn't appear to be stopping or changing.

Research areas:

Into Google Glass and it's addictive properties

Tweets during freshers

Facebook and how everyone spends their lives on it and the connection to loneliness, isolation and also in some cases depression.

Myspace and the design functions attached to it, why myspace has more personality and freedom than facebook, more functions.

How can I convey my messages as a graphic designer when type/written communication is more challenging than spoken questions/information?

Symbolic interactionist theories of identities

George Herbert Mead

Herbert Blumer

'Peoples behaviours' in interaction with others in social settings are governed by their conception of themselves.

Actions speak louder than words.

Individual's actions are directed at others verify, identity or identities.

Identities are fillers of selective perception and interpretation 

People learn from their mistakes when judging identities

Sheldon Stryker's identity theory   

Scenario based identity, people act differently to higher roles (bosses etc)

Everyone behaves the same and join them

Despite how people know know they should act it doesn't always go that way

Salience hierarchy 

People are complex and have various perceptions of them selves and use them in different situations

It can predict how a person will react in a situation and what traits will come through.

Commitment and self 

The more time a person spends in a role the more it will shape 

Identity is based on the views of others

People overtime become more like those who they spend time with

People cant act how they would initially want to due to social restrictions 

Key propositions 

The more people that follow in identity the stronger it becomes. Stronger in numbers. 

Seek out situations to use that roll 

A leader in a work place

Pressure and stress on a big personality 

Mcall and Simmons 1960

Legitimating ones identity in the eyes of others in is the driving force of human behaviour 

The main judge of identity is yourself

All about reinforcement from others

Drive to acquire support for their idealised concepts of them selves

Media and message

The major advances in civilisation are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

Societies shaped more by the media and less by content of communication 

Electrical tech fosters the unification and involvement 

Hellen Miller & Jon Derrida 1996

Deconstruction

Representation builds itself

Language informs an individual 

We're born into language

Speech draws on intention consciousness, but writing is dead and abstract

Speech over writing

Design writing research Lupton and Miller

Order of importance:

Speech - Writing - Typography - Seeing - Reading 

Modernist typography

Typography has moved away from speech 

Spacing, punctuation, type style and layout, all speech.

First thing's First manifesto 

Rick Poynor

Challenge of vis communicators that refuses to go away

Initially dashed off in the heat of the moment

due to the generation of the manifesto

In 1964 America was already corrupt by ads and Garland didn't want to see England going the same way

Culture Jammin

Ethical charge

Research No Logo

Democracy undemo

Beirat 2007

People who signed it already had great jobs and can do their own things rather than designing ads

Is this workable. It is signed by cultural designers

Horis' Typography challenge  

Challenges seeing and reading

Work to uncover its messages

Deconstruction design style

Grunge style

Created as a poster for a lecture at an American College

Typography is lesser than the written word

Pastiche

Using old styles in a capitalist and modernist world 

Detached from history because it becomes modern day

Reproducing victorian type in a modern way

Marxism 

Negative dystopic picture of the present

Modernist styles become post modern