Course materials

1. The title of the research project is “Media Representation of the Roma
Community
The title of the research project is “Media Representation of the Roma Community in
Romanian News Media”Research project structure and requirements1. The research topic –
What do you want to study? How do you define the topic? Why did you choose this topic?2.
Literature review – What has been studied so far about this subject? What did you read on
this subject? What did other researchers write about it? Define the concepts you operate
with.(e.g.: if your research topic is about the media representation of an event, you need to
read about media representations and define what you mean by this concept)3. Research
questions or hypothesis – What do you want to find out through your study?4. Methodology
– How will you do the research? What method/methods are suitable for studying the
chosen topic? Why? Where do you collect data from? Sources (individuals, documents,
groups, TV etc.)? Who doyou want to talk to? What content will you search for? How do you
sample and how do youselect respondents or/and the content you will analyze? How do you
collect data – techniques (face to face, online, using your computer etc.)? What tools will you
use (questionnaire, interview guide, content analysis grid etc.)? Describethe right tool.5.
Data analysis – What does your data indicate you? Data description; Data interpretation
(based on the literature mentioned at point 2). Verifying the answers to the research
questions and testing the hypothesis.6. Conclusions7. BibliographyAll parts of the paper,
stated in the requirement, are mandatory for the paper to be taken into account. Sending a
paper without literature review, research design, or analysis will lead to failing.Before
submitting the paper, make sure you review at least the info from course 14.I am going to
attach the course 14 below.