Blog 13- Research plan

Topic: Phone Novels

Audience: late teens-mid 20s; female

Focus: Phone novel awareness

Research questions:

1. What are phone novels and what makes them unique?
2. Why should I care?
3. How can I write a phone novel?
4. Where can I find phone novels?
5. Do I have to be an author to read phone novels?
6. Where do I start?
7. What is the purpose?
8. How can phone novels benefit me?
9. Copyright, plagrisim, and privacy issues.
10. History and development of phone novels.

Information needed:

• general information
• history- where, when, how and even maybe why phone novels started
• directions/where to begin/how to write a phone novel-beginners
• where to find phone novels: list of websites
• saftey, privacy, copying, plagrism issues
• list of "what to do" and "what NOT to do" maybe
• benefits, advantages, and future possabilites of phone novels
• examples of people who were benefited and how
  
  Sources:

1. Goodyear, Dana (of The New Yorker) "I<3 href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear
2. Michael Marshall"A Mobile Phone Novel Read Via a T-shirt" http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/a-mobile-phone-novel-read-via.html
3. Katayama, Lisa "Big Books HitJapan's Tiny Phones"
   http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/01/72329
4. Farrar, Lara (for CNN)"Cell Phone Stories Writing New Chapter in Publishing Print" http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/25/japan.mobilenovels/
5. Onishi, Norimitsu (New York Times) "Thumbs Race as Japan's Best Sellers Go Cellular" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html
6. Galbraith, W. Patrick "Cell Phone Novels Come of Age" http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment-arts/view/cell-phone-novels-come-of-age