For this paper, I'd like you to come up with a hypothesis or theory about how we interact with the mass media or how the mass media affects us and how you would test it (experiment, survey, focus group, case study, etc.)
For example:
My hypothesis is that students who use Facebook for more than 2 hours a day will have lower grades than those who don't use Facbeook.
In my paper I would explain why I think this is so, then I would explain how I would use a survey to measure this.
Also explain any other factors that might affect my outcome (for example, those without access to a computer wouldn't use Facebook at all, but their grades might be lower because of less computer access, etc).
That said, please don't use Facebook in your experiment. :-)
Use these sites to help you decide on a qualitative study (case study, ethnography, etc.) or a quantitative study (survey, experiment, etc).
Qualitative vs Quantitative
Quantitative methods
Qualitative research
Remember, you don't have to do the experiment/case study/etc. only explain how you would do it.
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