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Research Design Assignment Final Research Question: Various studies have shown that journalists rely on “official” sources for information. Social media and the Internet have allowed protest organizers and participants to become more accessible to the public, and in some ways, possibly more official. How has this greater public awareness and access to social movement and protest leaders and participants via social media changed the way media cover protests? Are protester voices and sources given more space and importance than in the past? (1) How does the nature of media coverage protests compare to the nature of content from participants on social media during the protests? (2) How often were each source type (protester, official, bystander, …show more content…

The articles will be ones which discuss the protests. The sample will be obtained from Lexis Nexis or other similar database. Currently, I am considering using the Ferguson protests and the 1967 Denzil Dowell protests in Richmond, California as well as the protests surrounding the inaugurations of Presidents Nixon and Trump. The sample for the last question will come from the same time period. It will be taken from the Twitter accounts of key protests leaders participants and/or …show more content…

This will help me see if social media sources are affecting coverage and if there has been a change in the way these protests are being covered over time. If the media coverage and social media content for recent protests are similar this might hint that there is some influence by social media protest leaders and participants. The second question will help identify how much more prominent official sources are, if they still are, than social media sources. Comparing these to content will help to map where content is coming from. Because a factor in content change over time could be attributed to cultural change rather than the growing prominence of social media, determining if certain content type actually came from social media sources could be helpful. The third question will compare how much space and prominence is given to each source type to show how important official sources, social media sources, etc. are in the chosen news

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