You are about to undertake a study of media bias during the presidential election campaign. Your task will be to answer one of the following questions:
Is there a bias evident in the coverage of the presidential election?
(longitudinal)
Does media bias influence people's perceptions with respect to the presidential election?
Which media outlet offers the fairest, most balanced coverage of the presidential election?
You are to develop your study using the scientific method.
Your experimental model must include the following components:
- research
- hypothesis
- variables
- procedure
- results
- observation
- conclusions
Before class on Wednesday, consider which question you are interested in and think about the issues you need to learn about to study that question.
Starting next class, I will work with you to help you through the process of developing your model.
Another matter that we have to address is the need for us to have our first test. The test will be include all blog content up to Friday, September 19. The date of the test will be Wednesday, September 24.
