Hi All,
This is an introduction! I am Ranjana, a doctoral student (2008-2011) at the LSE, in the Department of Media and Communications where I am researching youthful interpretations of Web 2.0 genres, focusing in particular on the interplay of digital literacies and legibilities in young peoples’ negotiations of social networking sites. My research combines creative/playful/unorthodox methods(like user-representations of SNS) with more tried and tested social research methods (like Interviews). This research is currently supported by the Media Research Studentship at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
My research interests include:
Audience Reception Studies (With a Focus on Online Interactive Media) : Here, my interests lie particularly in contemporary empirical articulations of reception studies including Germanic reception aesthetics; re-imagination and revisions of reception studies in the light of digital media use and interpretation. More importantly, I am interested in working with trans-media reception studies and asking how audience reception works across media forms and genres.
Digital Texts, Genres, Forms: Rooted in my interest in audience reception is a curiosity with online genres, especially Web 2.0 genres. I want to ask whether the genre repertoire developed through print and televisual forms hold value for new interactive technologies. I am particularly interested, therefore, in textual structures, semantic and syntactic forms these new genres take and essentially also, how these are interpreted
Interpretation in digital environments: I am interested in the divergences, tensions and disjunctures in the way people interpret online forms. For this my approach is that of digital literacies which offers a great tool to ask questions in how people varying read and write the Web.
Digital Literacies: All of these interests converge in my doctoral research where I ask how young people develop divergent literacies and what this tells us about their interpretative practices in understanding online genres and the varying symbolic resources they use in the process. I am interested in empirical research for both modal and media-related literacies.
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