Social Media's Impact on Feminist Advocacy: Problems and Solutions for 21st Century Communication
Overview
This is an undergraduate coursework assignment requiring students to propose a presentation topic examining how social media negatively impacts feminist advocacy. The student identifies the core problem and proposes three solutions: enhancing campaign effectiveness, curbing trolling, and eliminating barriers to advocacy on social media platforms.
What this coursework covers
- Topic selection and problem identification focusing on social media's negative impacts on feminist advocacy
- Three proposed solutions: enhancing campaign effectiveness, curbing trolling, and eliminating barriers
- Criteria analysis ensuring topic relates to communication, is relevant to 21st century issues, and impacts university students
- Research planning with identification of three keywords: feminism, advocacy, and social media
Preview
Presentation 1 Idea Proposal |
It’s time to finalize your topic choice for Presentation 1. After this proposal is approved, you cannot change your topic this semester (choose wisely! 🤓). You’ve already completed an initial idea proposal to get you started, but it’s OK if you’ve changed your mind since then.
PART 1: Choosing Your Topic |
- Which topic will you investigate this semester?
Social media limiting feminist advocacy.
- Within this topic, what problem will you focus on? You should use 1 sentence to identify and explain the problem.
The negative impacts of social media on feminist advocacy.
- What solution(s) will you propose in your presentation? You should use 1 sentence to identify and explain each solution.
- Enhancing the effectiveness of feminist advocacy campaigns.
- Curbing trolling against feminist advocates.
- Eliminating barriers to feminist advocacy in social media.
- Now examine your topic/problem to make sure it fits all 3 of our criteria in the table below. Use the Venn diagram to explain how your topic fits each criterion. You can write directly in the diagram.
How does your problem relate to communication? | Remember communication is broad, including speech, writing, nonverbal aspects. You can focus on interpersonal, public, or mass communication. |
How is your problem relevant to or a product of the 21st century? | Since we’re focusing on communication in the modern world, the problem you choose to address needs to be relevant now. More Communication Studies samples |