Media Influence.
Prepare a 6-8 page paper (1500-2000 words) that outlines a research design to examine a question related to media influence.
The paper should introduce a clear question, hypothesis, and research design. You are free to choose your own topic but be sure to provide sufficient background to motivate your question and hypothesis. The paper should draw on course materials and specify the underlying mechanism that is theorized to produce the media effect.
Your description of the research design should provide details about how you would go about testing your hypothesis and leverage what you have learned about research design throughout the course. While the research design should be explained in detail in the paper, you can include an appendix with any relevant supplementary material (e.g., experimental manipulations, survey questions).
