Research paper:politics and media Description

PROMPT/ASSIGNMENT: Don’t be intimidated: this project may look and sound complicated, but it has a pretty simple main goal: to help you become comfortable with using library databases to do research. Also, it aims to help you become more comfortable with the process of asking your own research questions. To do that, you’ll go through several steps on your way to finding sources to write about in your multi-source essay.You will be finding and discussing sources from library databases as you define, articulate, and answer a research question related to issues discussed in class. You won’t be doing experimental research, like Wilson with his ants. Instead, you’ll be researching to locate a conversation about an issue and then to join the conversation with a point of view based on what you’ve learned.Be aware that this project is not asking you to first develop a thesis, and then to find evidence to confirm it. That would be demonstrating the influence of Bacon’s Idol of the Theater: “The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion. . . draws all things else to support and agree with it” (595). Postman asked, “how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking?” (286). For this assignment, you’ll be thinking about question-asking as well as research.Topic: Iris Murdoch’s essay “Morality and Religion” starts with “a question about the relation of morality to religion” (760). Your essay will start with “a question about the relation of ___________ to________. It’s up to you to fill in the blanks, but, so that as a class there are some common aspects to the research, I’m asking you to follow the guidelines below. The words you put into both blanks should be connected to something we read about in class.*For the first blank, choose from the following: either a term related to “information pollution,” or “voting,” or “ethics.” (These terms connect with the essays we read by Bacon, by Rousseau, and by Gazzaniga and others. For information pollution, you can use that term or choose any connected term: “fake news,” “disinformation,” “misinformation,” “propaganda”; or “information,” “truth,” “facts,” etc.). *Fill in the second blank with your choice of another term related to a text we’ve read in class. Suggestions for the second blank could be: democracy, education, feminism, choice, civil society, the social contract, slavery, science, politics, technology, morality, government, the brain/the mind. .