ASHFORD JRN 425 JRN425 WEEK 5 FINAL ASSIGNMENT
Focus of the Final Research Paper
This Final Research Paper requires that you build on knowledge that you have obtained across the previous weeks. Each topic is based on one of the theoretical concepts: framing, agenda-setting, or priming. You will choose one of the following topics for your Final Research Paper:
• · On the Agenda: How the media uses agenda-setting on political issues.
• · Getting Framed: An analysis of framing of political issues in the news media.
• · Primed for Action: How news organizations use social media to report political issues based on the priming theory.
For the paper, you will choose one political issue to focus on. You will also choose three different news media outlets (print or electronic) to research. The political issues cannot duplicate any that you have investigated for previous assignments. The issues must be recent (within the past year), controversial issues on a local, national, or international level. In the paper, you must:
• · Define the origins of the theoretical concept associated with the chosen topic.
• · Identify and describe at least two previous studies conducted utilizing the theoretical concept in the investigation
of the media.
• · Discuss the nature of the chosen political issue.
• · Illustrate how the chosen media outlets present the political issues in relation to the applicable theoretical concept
through specific examples.
• · Discuss the overall impact of the presentation of the political issues by the news media outlets in relation to the
theoretical concept.
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