2 page jeremy

Student Name

Course

Date

Project Outline

Introduction

· This entire assignment should fall between 1.5 to 3 pages

· Subreddit Link:

· Subreddit Name: Animal Crossing

· Number of members:

· Brief notes about what you plan to focus on (hobbies, socialization online, animals and society, grief, video games, popular culture, etc.)

· Brief description of how the subreddit fits

· Section should be less than ½ page

Planned Academic Articles

· Please share 3 academic articles that you plan to use in the paper (less than ½ page)

· You can provide a quick description of them below your citation information

· Gray, K. L. (2012). Intersecting oppressions and online communities: Examining the experiences of women of color in Xbox Live. Information, Communication & Society, 15(3), 411-428.

· Considers the importance of race/gender in the context of online hostilities

· The third academic article goes here

· Repeat process

Proposed Research Questions and Planned Data Collection

· You may have adjusted things since working on the brainstorm and that is okay!

· Use this space to update the plan (up to ¾ page)

· Number of posts and comments you plan to analyze

· Explanation of why you have made this choice

· RQ1: How frequently are people active in talking about cute animals online?

· Briefly explain how you plan to answer with your data

· Briefly explain what you see so far in the data

· RQ2: What cute creatures are most frequently talked about?

· Briefly explain how you plan to answer with your data

· Briefly explain what you see so far in the data

· RQ3: What tone is usually present in these interactions?

· Coding for different key words. This includes when people are supportive (“Nice work!”) or discouraging (“I hated what they did with the finale!”).

· The community is divided so far, with a split between positive and negative posts. There are a lot of people who seem happy (using words like, “satisfied”), but there are also people who are not happy (using words like “ruined”).

· At a guess, this could be because a finale recently aired and people are still reacting and processing it.

Data Visualization

· This may change by the time you turn in your final paper and that is okay!

· Provide some brief ideas about what you will do with data visualization

· You will need one per theme/pattern you discuss! (these are basically the answers to your research questions, which you can develop after looking at the data)

· This section should be up to ½ page

· How do you want to convey data to your reader?

· I will use bar charts because my data will be categorical and these are an effective way to convey this data in an easy to understand way

· I will also use a couple of quotes (which I will de-identify for privacy) to show examples of what I coded