ASSIGNMENT | Credibility on the Web Reaction Paper 613

The grading rubric for this assignment is attached below.

Introduction: Introduce what the topic is and let your reader know what he/she can expect in this paper. This section should set the context through which your reader should interpret the information you present in your study summaries.

Summarize: In section one you should summarize three of the readings (if there are more than 3 that week, you may choose). Dedicate one paragraph to each study. In your own words and without using quotations, please explain the studies. Begin the paragraph by explaining how the researchers conducted the study and then tell me what the results were. Do not include information on the hypotheses or literature review. Tell me what the researchers did and what they found. Use transitions between studies to show how they relate to each other.

Analyze: In the second section tell me what YOU think about the readings. You should try to pull together a main theme for the readings as a whole. Do NOT re-summarize the studies. You only have to pick one or two things to write about. This section should be no more than one or two paragraphs. Link these observations back to the topic – what is the significance of these observations in relation to the topic? What implications do your main ideas have for communication practitioners? The main purpose of this section is to see if you can take the research findings and translate them into implications and practical recommendations for communication practitioners.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

The media plays an important role in influencing society. Besides being a source of entertainment, when media is used efficiently, it can inform, educate, and enlighten its target audience. However, the advent of many media platforms has diluted the benefits that traditional media platforms have always offered to provide. Information is easily distorted and manipulated to serve personal interests than being driven by consumer demands (Hämäläinen et al. 2020). The emergence of fake news brings forth the question of the credibility of media information. In the US, President Trump has often been quoted…