Dr Stephen Thornton's presentation:
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framed and circulated them in their free times. The collected data was tabled and analyzed with the
assistance of IBM SPSS 20. Finally, the study summarizes that the undergraduates access Facebook
for various purposes in their everyday life in which, academic search, online shopping, developing
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large manner in coming years.
Running head: ANNOTATED OUTLINE 1
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Annotated Outline
“The Impact of Social Media on Opinion of People”
Student Name
Course Name
Professor Name
Institution Name
Date:
Annotated Outline
Title:
“The Impact of Social Media on Opinion of People”
Introduction:
Social Media is a new place for people to learn, teach, and get knowledge or information about anything. This paper focuses on the importance of social media and its impact on the opinion of the people. More than half of the world is now using different social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. people spend a lot of time on the social media sites and read the various type of content there. This raises a question that is it influential in any aspect.
Thesis Statement: The social media platforms impact human behavior and their opinion about different things.
Section Heading: Research Question
Question # 1: Do social media affect the opinion of people regarding different aspects?
Question # 2: Do social media affect the opinion of the people positively?
Question # 3: Do social media affect the opinion of the people negatively?
Question # 4: What are the factors that lead to social media influence?
Literature Review
Section Heading: Social Media and Opinion of People
This section of this paper discusses the detail description and definition of social media and people opinion.
Social media is a platform that allows people to connect with each other and share their opinions and thoughts. Social media is in the form of websites and applications. In social media sites, there is content regarding different topics and problems are posted by different people. This content includes social issues, entertainment, history, trend, fashion, events, personal life, and different problems (Lee, 2016).
Section Heading: Connection between Social Media and Opinion of People
This section of the paper focuses on the connection among the social media sites and applications and the opinion of the people that how they are related to each other and what factors of social media impact people opinions.
There are 3.48 billion people in the world who use social media platform to be connected ("Digital 2019: Global Internet Use Accelerates - We Are Social", 2019). According to a survey, people use to spend approximately 2 hours and 22 minutes a day on social media sites and application, and those people are of all ages. Hence, it is evident that there is some connection between people and the social media sits. Behavior, opinion, and attitudes of people are changes on the basis of their experiences, and social media is a place where people get to know and experience different things, issues, topics on different aspects such as politics, social life, history, entertainm.
Group research project completed in the Spring Semester of 2016. Studied undergraduate students at Florida State University in order to gain knowledge on how they used social media platforms to gain information about the presidential election.
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3. Explain, with detail, the sections from “Hidden History of Choice” (pp 312-314) including “A Paradigm Shift” on page 314. For example, what policies/practices have and haven’t worked?
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8. Answer questions 1-4 from page 321 Critical Thinking and Reflection. Summarize the “Is There Common Ground” on that same page.
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STUDENTS AND TECHNOLOGY 2
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Abstract
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Overdependence of personal digital technology by students should be monitored and regulated as they are adversely affected.
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students and to what extent this social network site was subjective to their everyday requirements. In
this respect 100 college students from Govt. College Dharamshala were randomly chosen and after
reviewing several studies on Facebook use, a questionnaire containing 20 close-ended questions was
framed and circulated them in their free times. The collected data was tabled and analyzed with the
assistance of IBM SPSS 20. Finally, the study summarizes that the undergraduates access Facebook
for various purposes in their everyday life in which, academic search, online shopping, developing
(social) relations, sharing data, chatting, and killing loneliness are primary. The study also confirms
and supports the results of previous studies that the consumption of Facebook influences students’
academic, health and social life both negative and positive manners. It is alarmed that if the
dependency of students on Facebook is not taken seriously by parents, teachers and policymakers, it
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Running head: ANNOTATED OUTLINE 1
ANNOTATED OUTLINE 5
Annotated Outline
“The Impact of Social Media on Opinion of People”
Student Name
Course Name
Professor Name
Institution Name
Date:
Annotated Outline
Title:
“The Impact of Social Media on Opinion of People”
Introduction:
Social Media is a new place for people to learn, teach, and get knowledge or information about anything. This paper focuses on the importance of social media and its impact on the opinion of the people. More than half of the world is now using different social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. people spend a lot of time on the social media sites and read the various type of content there. This raises a question that is it influential in any aspect.
Thesis Statement: The social media platforms impact human behavior and their opinion about different things.
Section Heading: Research Question
Question # 1: Do social media affect the opinion of people regarding different aspects?
Question # 2: Do social media affect the opinion of the people positively?
Question # 3: Do social media affect the opinion of the people negatively?
Question # 4: What are the factors that lead to social media influence?
Literature Review
Section Heading: Social Media and Opinion of People
This section of this paper discusses the detail description and definition of social media and people opinion.
Social media is a platform that allows people to connect with each other and share their opinions and thoughts. Social media is in the form of websites and applications. In social media sites, there is content regarding different topics and problems are posted by different people. This content includes social issues, entertainment, history, trend, fashion, events, personal life, and different problems (Lee, 2016).
Section Heading: Connection between Social Media and Opinion of People
This section of the paper focuses on the connection among the social media sites and applications and the opinion of the people that how they are related to each other and what factors of social media impact people opinions.
There are 3.48 billion people in the world who use social media platform to be connected ("Digital 2019: Global Internet Use Accelerates - We Are Social", 2019). According to a survey, people use to spend approximately 2 hours and 22 minutes a day on social media sites and application, and those people are of all ages. Hence, it is evident that there is some connection between people and the social media sits. Behavior, opinion, and attitudes of people are changes on the basis of their experiences, and social media is a place where people get to know and experience different things, issues, topics on different aspects such as politics, social life, history, entertainm.
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ARE AMERICA’S SCHOOLS RESEGREGATING?
1. What is the summary of Issue 17? (pp 306-309). Was segregation the official policy of the US government?
2. Explain, with detail, the section labeled “Unmaking Brown” (pp 310-312) up to “Hidden History of Choice” on page 312. Explain the legislation in this section. What does the author mean by unmaking Brown?
3. Explain, with detail, the sections from “Hidden History of Choice” (pp 312-314) including “A Paradigm Shift” on page 314. For example, what policies/practices have and haven’t worked?
4. What are the facts and contradictions that Ellen presents on pages 315-316? Up to the section called: why are some mixed neighborhoods stable.
5. Why are some mixed neighborhoods stable? (pp 316-317). Explain this in detail. What is the ‘racial neighborhood stereotyping’ hypothesis? Explain all three parts.
6. What are the policies that Ellen presents on page 317; how is that measured in “Testing the Theory”? What is the data? What does the author mean by “neighborhoods sheltered from black growth are more stable?” (p 318). Cover all up to “Policy Implications, Big and Small”.
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CILIP Cymru Wales Conference 2019: Lessons from 15 Years of Collaboration between the Library and the Politics Department at Cardiff University
1. Lessons from 15 Years of Collaboration
between the Library and the Politics
Department at Cardiff University
Dr Stephen Thornton, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University,
thorntonsl@Cardiff.ac.uk
2. Thornton, S. (2006), ‘Information literacy and the Teaching of Politics’, LATISS - Learning and
Teaching in the Social Sciences 3(1), pp. 29-45.
Thornton, S. (2007), ‘Pedagogy, Politics and Information Literacy’, Politics 28(1), pp. 50-56.
Thornton, S. (2012), ‘Trying to Learn (Politics) in a Data-drenched Society: Can Information Literacy
Save Us?’, European Political Science 11(2), pp. 213-223.
Thornton, S. (2009), ‘Lessons from Amerca: Teaching Politics with the Google Generation’, Enhancing
Learning in the Social Sciences (ELiSS) 1(3), pp. 1-20.
Thornton, S. (2015), ‘Promoting Information Literacy and Information Research’, In: Ishiyama, J.,
Miller, W. J. and Simon, E. (eds.) Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and
International Relations. Edward Elgar, pp. 121-131.
Thornton, S. (forthcoming), ‘A Longitudinal Comparison of Information Literacy in Students starting
Politics Degrees’, LATISS - Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences.
3. Has anything changed?
Information literacy as a concept
has become more familiar,
though also more complex - and
more political
Changes to the information
landscape
4.
5. 1) Have you received any training in locating information? If yes, provide brief details of
this training, including where you received it?
Responses Number of students (out of 110)
2009 2017
university training (home or other) 45 11
general school/sixth-form 4 6
as part of A level coursework - 14
as part of an EPQ - 9
[Extended Project Qualification]
as part of the Welsh Baccalaureate - 3
as part of a MOOC - 1
[Massive Open Online Course]
no or negative response 61 70
6. 2) When preparing for writing essays or other assignments, which types of information have
you used? (please tick any that apply)
Sources Number of students
2009 2017
book 110 107
website 89 97
journal article 70 67
newspaper article 58 72
e-journal 57 28
e-book 34 27
Sources added to list in 2017
periodicals such as The Economist 46
social media 29
Others (written in by students, 2017): ‘mark schemes’; ‘coursework notes’; ‘own empirical
survey’; ‘radio/podcast’, ‘pre-written essays’, ‘radio’.
7. 3) Regarding electronic sources, which, if any, of these have you used? (please tick any
that apply)
Responses Number of students
2009 2017
Google 98 108
Wikipedia 72 75
JSTOR 40 18
Nexis 33 5
Scopus 26 0
Google Scholar 25 51
Web of Science 19 1
International Bibliography 10 1
of the Social Sciences
British Humanities Index 7 11
Ingenta Connect 5 0
International Political 2 5
Science Abstracts
Others (written in by students, 2017): ‘Fordham University source library’; ‘YouTube’;
‘BBC’; ‘Politics Today’; ‘bing’
8. 4) Imagine you were asked to find information on a database for a project entitled ‘A
comparison of two authoritarian regimes’; tell me which words and symbols might
you use?
Responses Number of students
2009 2017
repetition of words in the project title 47 16
use of a truncation symbol 24 -
phrase search e.g. use of quote marks 13 22
use of synonyms and/or examples 11 20
(e.g. dictatorship, Belarus)
Boolean operators (e.g. AND, OR, NOT) 6 5
no response 13 52
9. 5) What, if any, criteria do you use to assess whether a website contains information reliable
enough to use in your assessed work?
Responses Number of students
2009 2017
reputation of author(s) 39 38
reputation of website 37 40
display of references/citations 28 23
professionalism of layout 17 7
website referenced elsewhere 17 21
currency of the website 13 17
presence of obvious political bias 7 20
recognized domain/URL (e.g. ac.uk, .gov) 5 7
recommended by teacher/tutor 4 5
presence on citation index 2 -
potential for open editing 1 4
check using RefME - 11
credibility of publisher - 2
popularity amongst students - 1
no response 11 17
10. 6) What do you understand by the word plagiarism?
Responses Number of students
2009 2017
using work of others without giving due credit 62 40
similar, but using the term ‘copying’ 42 49
similar, but using the term ‘stealing’ 2 12
(or other term suggestive of criminality)
awareness that plagiarism can be unintentional - 5
awareness of self-plagiarism - 1
no response 4 4
11. 7) What do you understand by the term referencing? b) If you have referenced your work, what
particular problems have you faced?
Responses number of students, 2017 only
a system indicating where you have used someone’s previous work 71
a system used for acknowledging the provenance of quotes 14
the act of inserting footnotes into a text 8
the act of listing sources at the end of an essay 6
a system of using other’s work to support one’s own argument 2
a system whereby information can be checked for accuracy 1
no response 18
Problems
finding/tracing/re-tracing all the information required 19
knowing how to lay out a reference, when to reference, or which 17
type of which type of referencing system to use
time and effort involved 7
this part of the question left unanswered 59
12. Name three websites you are happy to use.
Website number of students responding (all 2017)
BBC News (including Welsh medium site) 52
The Guardian 29
The Economist 19
Wikipedia 19
Google Scholar 9
Google 6
GOV.UK (Government website) 6
JSTOR 6
The Independent 5
The Times 5
Financial Times 4
Google Books 4
YouTube 4
Huffington Post 3
Politico 3
United Nations website 3
National Archives 2
Charity Commission 2
New York Times 2
Reuters 2
Sky News 2
13. Name a website you would not use, and briefly explain why not.
Website Percentage of students responding (all 2017)
Wikipedia 54
Daily Mail 7
The Sun 4
Facebook 3
Personal blogs 3
Any politically motivated website 2
Answers.com 2
Buzzfeed 2
The Canary 2
The Independent 2
14. If you use social media for assignment purposes, identify which type (e.g. Facebook) and explain
briefly how you use it.
Responses (all 2017)
7 students highlighted Facebook alone, commenting:
Use articles shared through people on Facebook from newspapers etc.
Newspapers on Facebook for general information
Facebook to promote my research
Facebook – poll for surveys and opinions
Facebook – alternative news pages carry politics around the world. Then I
research the facts independently.
Facebook – news articles
15. 12 students highlighted Twitter alone, commenting:
Twitter to stay up to date with current affairs
Twitter – world news and info
Twitter – to keep track of the latest political news and events
Twitter for polls
Twitter – as I check the BBC news page for global updates
Twitter – following users such as the news, politicians, etc.
Twitter to find articles from newspapers such as New Statesman,
Guardian, Economist, etc.
Twitter – re-tweet key quotes etc., different viewpoints
Twitter – what’s trending and assessing the posts with the most likes
and re-tweets
Twitter – quotes especially for my A-level Politics
Twitter – Donald etc.
Twitter – looking at influential people’s opinions and also
questionnaires
16. 8 students highlighted both Facebook and Twitter, commenting:
Use Facebook/Twitter when writing public opinion pieces
Twitter, Facebook
Facebook and Twitter to look at the polls and comment sections and study
popular opinions
Facebook and Twitter – to project questions onto a larger target audience
Twitter/Facebook – follow political commentators who post links to relevant
articles
Facebook, Twitter
In A levels to prepare for writing essays. I have used Facebook to communicate
with classmates about ideas. Also, I have used Twitter to view statements made
by leaders (e.g. Trump).
Facebook and Twitter to share surveys to get primary data
17. 1 student highlighted YouTube alone, commenting:
YouTube – VICE documentaries for information
2 students highlighted social media use in general without specifying
which one, commenting:
Primary research, such as survey/questionnaire distribution
Used social media to distribute a questionnaire for primary research
4 students claimed they did not use social media either at all or nor for
schoolwork, commenting:
Do not use social media
I do not tend to use social media for assignment purposes because often
times it could be biased or untrue since it can be posted by anyone
anonymously
No, I do not use it
None. Not a reliable source at all.
18.
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