Mass Communication Theory Literature Review
Your final research paper for this class must be related to mass communication theory. For this assignment, you will conduct a relevant literature review to discover the mass communication theory that you will use in your final paper.
Academic journal articles are reports of previous research on your topic area published in journals for an academic field. Academic journals ARE NOT books, business, trade, or general circulation magazines, newspaper articles, or information found on general websites. The “scholarly journals only” One-search function on the library’s Research Guide for COMM 302 web page can help you find academic journals appropriate for your topic.
Do not merely summarize the three articles about the theory that you selected. Instead, synthesise what you learned by giving enough information about each article (e.g., its purpose, its study results, how it explains a mass communication behavior or media effect, etc.) so that readers will understand your argument for how/why using the article would inform and support your use of the theory in your final paper for this class. You will be graded on your argument, not on your ability to paraphrase what is written in the articles.