Student Name
Course
Date
Project Outline

Introduction

This entire assignment should fall between 1.5 to 3 pages
Subreddit Link:
Subreddit Name: Animal Crossing
Number of members:
Brief notes about what you plan to focus on (hobbies, socialization online, animals and society, grief, video games, popular culture, etc.)
- Brief description of how the subreddit fits
Section should be less than ½ page

Planned Academic Articles

Please share 3 academic articles that you plan to use in the paper (less than ½ page)
- You can provide a quick description of them below your citation information
Gray, K. L. (2012). Intersecting oppressions and online communities: Examining the experiences of women of color in Xbox Live. Information, Communication & Society, 15(3), 411-428.
- Considers the importance of race/gender in the context of online hostilities
The third academic article goes here
- Repeat process

You may have adjusted things since working on the brainstorm and that is okay!
Use this space to update the plan (up to ¾ page)
Number of posts and comments you plan to analyze
- Explanation of why you have made this choice
RQ1: How frequently are people active in talking about cute animals online?
- Briefly explain how you plan to answer with your data
- Briefly explain what you see so far in the data
RQ2: What cute creatures are most frequently talked about?
- Briefly explain how you plan to answer with your data
- Briefly explain what you see so far in the data
RQ3: What tone is usually present in these interactions?
- Coding for different key words. This includes when people are supportive (“Nice work!”) or discouraging (“I hated what they did with the finale!”).
- The community is divided so far, with a split between positive and negative posts. There are a lot of people who seem happy (using words like, “satisfied”), but there are also people who are not happy (using words like “ruined”).
  - At a guess, this could be because a finale recently aired and people are still reacting and processing it.

This may change by the time you turn in your final paper and that is okay!
Provide some brief ideas about what you will do with data visualization
- You will need one per theme/pattern you discuss! (these are basically the answers to your research questions, which you can develop after looking at the data)
This section should be up to ½ page
How do you want to convey data to your reader?
I will use bar charts because my data will be categorical and these are an effective way to convey this data in an easy to understand way
I will also use a couple of quotes (which I will de-identify for privacy) to show examples of what I coded