Communications Question

Once you have received topic approval, based on the research proposal you submitted, please post on the discussion forum your approved topic along with a few sentences explaining your research.

The final research paper is an 8- to 10-page paper providing a detailed analysis and examination of an issue in digital journalism as it relates to an established podcast. The digital journalism issue may be drawn from course readings or other sources. The paper should include a significant research question you plan to answer, the method you employed for analyzing the issue, a literature review, a critical analysis of the issue, your conclusions and suggestions for future study. Use APA style of citation throughout.

Note: One of the objectives of research in general as well as this research paper is to develop new knowledge. There are multiple ways to achieve this; e.g., a creative synthesis and/or original critical analysis of findings from earlier studies. Another way to generate new knowledge is by conducting surveys — formal or informal surveys — or interviews or, for example, conducting a comparative study of two digital journalism sources/media platforms in how they cover a specific set of stories. Both surveys, interviews and comparative studies appropriate to your research create new information and lead to new knowledge relevant to your research question.

Organizational structure should include:

  1. Introduction of the topic and/or brief overview (I.e., why is this area worthy of a research study?)
  2. Research question (See link below.)
  3. Historical antecedents of the digital journalism issue (I.e., literature review)
  4. Research method (I.e., what did you do in your study?)
  5. Results (If you conducted a survey or interviews, this section reports your findings)
  6. Critical analysis/Discussion
  7. Conclusions
  8. Suggestions for future research

I recommend you consider using headings/titles for above sections that apply to your specific study. Be sure to include a well-written and specific research question in the study, however. See the link below for additional information on writing a research question.

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