Students will write a paper to adopt a policy perspective or critical opinion about the sites or industries vis–vis legacy and/or digital media that we have considered in class, e.g., journalism, radio, music, film, television, telecommunications, social networking sites and search engines, video games, etc., vis-a-vis one of the major themes of the course: privacy, censorship, fake news, etc.
TOPIC
Assess the state of the industry and market for digital media, and explain whether or not social media platforms and firms have grown too big, powerful, and monopolistic, or whether there is enough competition either among social media firms themselves or from other media companies and businesses.
The paper will be evaluated according to the following criteria (in order of importance):
clarity in articulating and establishing a clearly defined position or set of arguments in respect of digital media, information, and cultural law and policy today, indicating the perspective being adopted vis–vis the chosen issue or theme and the grounds or reasons for it being so adopted;
use and explication of academic sources, that is, how productively they incorporate arguments or evidence from those sources, demonstrating that they have undertaken an engagement of the material through quotes, paraphrases, etc.;
quality of writing, as reflected both in the attention to proofreading, editing, citations, etc., to limit typographical, grammatical, and other errors, and in the observance of the assignments formal and technical requirements, e.g., citation style, spacing and margins, etc.
Students must cite or refer to at least five (5) academic sources, of which no more than two (2) can be from the course assigned readings. (Course assigned readings do not have to be used; all five academic sources can be from outside of the course.) An academic source can include an article from a peer-reviewed journal, a chapter from a text published by a university or scholarly press, etc. If students are unsure as to whether a source can be considered sufficiently academic, they should ask the instructor to confirm its acceptability. Non-academic sources like newspaper articles or blog entries can also be used but will not count towards the minimum number of academic sources that must be included in the paper.
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