practical

Question 1

aim

Answer 1

investiogate whether new articles in an online tabloid newspaper portray schizophrenia differently to articles in an online broadsheet newspaper

Question 2

alternate hypothesis

Answer 2

schizophrenia will be portrayed differently ( positively linked to raising awareness, negatively linked to crime or neutral- scientific info
websites sampled will be a broadsheet the guardian and tabloid the sun

Question 3

method

Answer 3

content sampling a pilot study was conducted to test categories and train researchers coding system
website of 2 UK newspapers used chosen as each newspaper served a diff demographic - guardian being intellectual and the sun being more sensational , searched schizophrenia used 1st articles that came up
linked the crime, scientific info, aim to raise awareness were our codes

Question 4

results

Answer 4

data gathered was nominal so mode was used - the sun had more articles linked to crime
used chi square- sig at 0.05 , critical value of 5.99,observed value 12.3 which is higher so null hypothesis is rejected

Question 5

conclusiosn

Answer 5

differences between portrayal of schizophrenia between 2 online new sources

Question 6

s

Answer 6

qualitative data to quantitative eg using content analysis
ethical since no ppts

Question 7

w

Answer 7

prone to researcher effects - subjectivity but we did a peer review
small biased sample- generalised to all newspapers couldnt used more newspapers