Reaction Paper #9 due 4/15

(2nd to last!)

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. Go into as much detail as you can when you talk about your study.

Also explain any other factors that might affect the 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). There might be quite a few.

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

Types of Research Designs

Write a couple paragraphs explaining (based on the above links) why the study approach you picked is appropriate and why others might not be.

Remember, you don't have to do the experiment/case study/etc. only explain how you would do it.