University of Southern California Social Media and Democracy Discussion

Please submit a 1-2 page Prospectus Outline which gives a rough idea of all of the sections that you will have in your prospectus. The outline should be in bullet form with each primary bullet containing the section title, and secondary bullets containing brief (1-2 sentence) descriptions of what you plan to write in each section. IMPACT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

You should have, at the very least, the following bullets:

• Introduction (Background of Project and Intro to Research Question)
  • Briefly describe the background of the issue you’re examining, how you got interested in it, and your research question
• Literature Review
  • Briefly summarize your mini lit review (that you had already submitted) of the 5 sources
• Research Proposal IMPACT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
  • Briefly describe your research question, your theory, your hypothesis, and the independent and dependent variables of interest
• Methodology
  • Data Sources
    • Briefly describe where you will get your data
  • Quantitative Research Plan
    • Briefly describe how you will collect quantitative data
  • Qualitative Research Plan
    • Briefly describe how you will collect qualitative data
  • Human Subjects Research Protections
    • Briefly describe how you will protect your human subjects and uphold research ethics