Research essay on social media communities
Long-form research essay on social media communities
For this paper you will be writing a population analysis.
For this investigation you would focus on the population of a given social media space. The outline would be as follows:
I. Discuss the type of media you have chosen (focusing on how it works) and why it’s interesting and you chose it. [Example: Reddit]
II. Summarize / describe your chosen community. [ Example: r/PCMasterRace]
III. Discuss the behavior or time period you have chosen to focus on, and explain why you selected that slice of the community. [Example: Focus will be given to posts discussing PC versus consoles]
IV. Define any contentions terms. [Example: PC game]
V. Discuss previous research relevant to your analysis [Example: Sachin Thukral’s Analyzing behavioral trends in community driven discussion platforms like Reddit]
VI. Analyze the community using examples. [Example: Data shows that PCMR is more concerned with memes than with serious discussion of games or technology. Evidence would be data collected from threads in r/PCMasterRace.] This would take 3 – 5 paragraphs to support.
VII. Conclusion
