hw1
Author

Quinn He

Published

September 26, 2022

Code 
library(tidyverse)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)

Research Topic

Option 1

I am still not fully committed to this research topic, but, for now, this is the one I would like to settle on. I plan to look at news article headlines and maybe first paragraphs to track if newspaper’s language has become more inflammatory over time and in related to what. Basically I would look at how newspapers frame certain topics like climate change, candidate races, and other political topics and categorize them by political leaning and outlet.

For example, how does Fox News frame Ron DeSantis’s recent move to send immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard and how does NPR frame it?

Option 2

Another option would be to scale down option 1 and look at issues on the local newspaper level and compare a red state with a blue state (Massachusetts compared to Florida).

I would have to check the UMass database for articles (Alexis Nexus)

Possible Setbacks

  • Only able to get data from one news source
  • There will be potential limitations with my coding abilities to access certain data I will need.

Other Possibilites

What other research topics could blossom out of my initial thoughts?

What kind of language have newspapers used to portray climate change? the raid on Mar a Lago? Etc.