My 6030 research paper topic

I'm still thinking about the topic of my research and haven't pinned it down yet, but I'm thinking about doing something about how writing technologies (blogs and email, particularly, I guess) have changed ESL student writing. I mean, in the past, ESL students learned to write according to the standards accepted in academia. That might have meant shedding cultural rhetoric traditions (see Kaplan and contrastive rhetoric). But now so many students are blogging in their native language and in English and using a diff. rhetorical style. These writing technologies are independent from cultural rhetorical traditions--they are their own culture in some way. How has ESL students' writing changed due to these technologies? positively? negatively? Are ESL students now bypassing learning standard English forms and gone straight to online writing forms? What kind of English are the students' using with the intro of this technology? These are some of the questions I think I will explore.