This exercise introduces students to working with the chat with a PDF feature of SciSpace.com. This exercise goes along with a video overview of SciSpace Chat available at MattKushin.com

1. Shepherd University Com 435: Comm Research
Professor Matthew J. Kushin
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1. Before you get started, watch this video.
2. Download the PDF from the journal’s website and upload it into SciSpace.
3. Use your critical thinking skills to use the features shown in the video—such as
summaries, questions, explain paper---to answer the below questions using the “chat
with PDF” features of SciSpace.
4. Paste screen captures of you interacting with SciSpace below each question, showing
what you found.
Literature Review
1. What gap in the literature is this study trying to fill?
2. What are filter bubbles and how does that relate to messaging apps?
Methods
1. What is subjective political knowledge and how did they measure it?
2. What research method did they use to conduct this research (e.g., surveys, focus
groups, interviews)?
3. What percentage of the participants who participated in the study were female?
Findings & Discussion
1. What are the key implications of this research study?
2. What are some limitations of this research study?