Use digital and/or physical archives/special collections
Use digital and/or physical archives/special collections and peer-reviewed research to explore the history of either an entertainment program, media company, media personality (that is, historical or contemporary media figure) or cultural media artifact associated with at least one form of electronic media that we have explored this quarter. Such electronic media we have addressed include radio, television, film, internet, gaming, (live) streaming services, and social media.
In your outline, be sure to address the following questions in complete sentences. Do not copy and paste these guided questions in your outline as part of your content. Use them as a tool for creating content for your outline:
• What is the name of the entertainment program, media company, media personality, or cultural media artifact that you are exploring? Why did you select this topic?
• What is one potential title for your research paper?
• With which form(s) of electronic media is your subject associated? Specify radio, television, film, internet, gaming, (live) streaming service, or social media. It may be a combination, but it is important to narrow the scope
. • What time period are you addressing? Does the time period involve a specific decade (e.g. 1960s), a set of years (e.g. 1993-1996), one historical moment (e.g. September 11, 2011)? Specify your time period and narrow the scope so the research is manageable.
• How are you framing your arguable thesis? What are you arguing, or what is your intervention?
• Why does your subject matter, or how is it culturally or socially significant? Why does your subject belong in the historiography of electronic media?
• Through which critical perspective are you analyzing your topic? Is it through an analytical lens that considers race, gender, socioeconomic status, class, able-bodiedness, identity, linguistic difference, or something else? Remember, you must pick at least one of these critical perspectives through which to analyze your proposed topic.
• Indicate the titles of at least 2 academic secondary sources that are peer-reviewed. Who are the authors? In which year(s) are the articles published? In two sentences per source, try to summarize what each article is about. In other words, what is the article addressing? Is there a quotation that you like from either of these secondary sources that you can paraphrase? You may directly cite the quotation word-for-word in the outline; however, in the rough and final drafts, do aim to paraphrase most of secondary sources.
• What media-focused archival/special collections image are you going to use? You may include a copy of the image at the end of the outline if you would like to make sure it is acceptable and meets the requirements of the final research paper.
• What primary source are you using as evidence that your entertainment program, media company, media personality, or cultural media artifact is historically significant? (Recall primary sources include articles such as a letter or public document, TV or radio program transcript, interview transcript, song lyrics, legal document, etc.) 2
• What are 2 possible hyperlinks that you will incorporate into your research paper that relate to your project idea? (You can change your mind as your paper evolves, but for now aim to incorporate 2 potential links that show how your topic has a life on the internet.) • Whom or what service (e.g. Grammarly) and which archive/special collections do you plan to acknowledge in your rough draft’s Acknowledgements Page?
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