Assignments: Batch Two: Case Studies

You need to choose your second assignment from this list having already completed your first one - chosen from the first batch. Click on each title for a reading list and guidelines. Assignments in the second batch require you to do some small-scale research of your own, applying concepts and principles covered in lecture-workshop sessions. Click on each title for a reading list and guidelines. Please note that many students throw away marks by not paying close attention to the guidelines. You are very welcome to propose your own assignment topics if you have a particular interest that you would like to pursue, but you must get my written approval at least three weeks before the deadline.

For your assignment deadlines see the department's deadlines page.

• Devise, conduct and report on a small-scale observational study of the greeting and parting behaviour of students.
• Devise, conduct and report on a small-scale observational study of the use of mobile telephones.
• Devise, conduct and report on a small-scale observational study of proxemic behaviour in one of the following contexts: public benches, a library or buses.
• Do people tend to be more uninhibited online and if so, why?
• Analyse the implied meanings in three minimally-verbal advertisements and their interpretation by consumers.
• Analyse the connotations of gaze, posture and expression in magazine front covers.
• Analyse the connotations of fonts and colours in relation to the marketing of rival brands of a selected product.
• The popular mythology is that chatrooms are anti-social. Assess the evidence for and against this notion and account for the power of the myth.