Blog 14- detailed research plan

Focus: Phone novel awareness

Research question: What are phone novels and where did they come from? Where may phone novels be found? Can I write a phone novel and if so, how? Where would I start? Are phone novels really that different from book novels? Can phone novel writing benefit me as an author? If I did write a phone novel, what are the privacy, copying, and plagrisim rights I have?

Layout: I envision the layout of my project to be visually stimulating particulary to my audience of feamles in their late teens-mid 20s, yet steadily informative. I think the best way to do this would be a linear structure with scrolling and nodes with forward and backward links. For instance, the information I will provide will be in a single, long page with entitled chunks of information. These titles will be outlined in the beginning of the page so users can click on something of interest and be forwarded directly to the information. The nodes show users what the hypertext contains and enables them to get there with no trouble. There isn't a lot of clicking around which means less frustration and the more chance the users will read. I was thinking that I could include portions of examples of different types/styles of Phone Novels as different nodes as well as a direct link to "home" of a Phone Novel site. I want to include images in refrence to phone novel topics (like a man and women kissing and another women in the backround); something like on a cover to a movie that makes you read the back. The user looks at the image and is encourgaed to read because she is interested in the picture, thirsty for more. Another image I could post is an author that had their Phone Novel published. Users will be inspired and think "I could do that". To the right, I want nodes of popular phone novels so users can click and be connected to the phone novel with no problems. A true example is very important so the user has the complete understanding of what phone novels look like. I think that the Linear design is best for my topic because it's the simplest. Users won't have to do a lot of clikcing around, the topics are all right there and titled for easy access/navagation.
So basically, the macro sturcture of my hyertext will be linear with nodes, (linking to popular phone novels, the phone novel website "home", wikipedia definition page, and different titles within the hypertext). Each title contains a "chunk" of information which together makes my essay a whole. There will be an outline of these titles in nodes in the beginning of the hypertext so the information is organized as well as just a click away.

New References:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0UVnGNnU5F8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=keitai+shosetsu&ots=7dkweWUg9Z&sig=H0_ileVGPdb58q9LIuiPctjWGCY#PPR10,M1 Jiefang Daily, 2005. Mobile Phone Novels Cause to Debates: Literature Art or http://www.mgovernment.org/resurces/positivezfinal.pdf (look at pages 44 - 45)