TOPIC CHOSEN: The Influence of Digital Media Platforms on the Perception and Representation of South Asian Identities: A Case Study of Indians on Ti

TOPIC CHOSEN: The Influence of Digital Media Platforms on the Perception and Representation of South Asian Identities: A Case Study of Indians on TikTok in Australia.

I have provided the readings at the end of this document, apply different theories from these readings, but for the actual research use additional academic sources.

For this exercise, we will be using the State Library of NSW digital archive:https://socialmediaarchive.sl.nsw.gov.au/prototype/explorer.html.Links to an external site.length: 800 words

Research exercise is a formative assessment that allows you to learn how to design queries, formulate research questions, and explore a topic of your interest in-depth. The purpose of this exercise is to allow you to explore a social issue using digital data as a medium. Ultimately, this exercise will ground the inquiry in writing your final assignment for this unit - your research proposal.

We will start working on the research exercise in week 5, and it is due for submission by the end of week 8 (Friday before the mid-semester break).

For this exercise, we will be using the State Library of NSW digital archive:https://socialmediaarchive.sl.nsw.gov.au/prototype/explorer.html.Links to an external site.You can start by choosing one of the activity categories: politics, government, media, sport and recreation, covid19, arts, Indigenous, people and communities, business, or environment. Then, explore the topics of the conversations in this category to better understand how the social issue of interest is represented in this archive.

The research exercise has four parts:

1.Introduction(~300 words). This paragraph introduces your reader to your research context and explains its significance. Which research question motivates this inquiry? Why is it important to explore? What evidence do we have on it thus far? Why should your reader care about it?

2.Description(~400 words). This part can be one or two paragraphs long - it provides descriptive statistics on the data you have retrieved through your tool. What are the volumes of posts that relate to your issue? Which metrics are significant? Which hashtags/query terms is your issue most frequently associated with?

3.Analysis(~400 words). In this part, you will apply one or more analytical techniques to answer your research question: comparison, mapping, longitudinal analysis, correlations and relationships. How does your issue change over time/across different states and administrative units/throughout the day? What can we learn about the issue from these observations?

4.Discussion and conclusion(~400 words). What are some of the limitations of the data represented in the archive? Of the modes of visualising this data (dashboards, charts)? What information is missing/absent/incomplete?What is the key takeaway - knowledge produced in the course of this exercise? What was unexpected/surprising about it? What alternative/complementary modes of inquiry would be helpful in answering the question?