User:Sneeweed/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Valence issue


 * Article Evaluation

This article is categorized as a Wikipedia stub. It only has one citation and is very brief. This article does not have any subheadings or images, which makes it difficult for readers to engage with the article. I would add sections on Theory and International Examples, as valence issues vary throughout the world.


 * Sources
 * Green, J. (2007). When Voters and Parties Agree: Valence Issues and Party Competition. Political Studies, 55(3), 629-655.
 * Bleck, J., Van de Walle, N., Lupu, N., & Riedl, R. (2013). Valence Issues in African Elections: Navigating Uncertainty and the Weight of the Past. Comparative Political Studies, 46(11), 1394-1421.
 * Pattie, C., & Johnston, R. (2008). Positional issues, valence issues and the economic geography of voting in British elections. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(1), 105-126.
 * Dufresne, Y., & Ouellet, C. (2019). Conceptualization, measurement and effects of positional issues in the Canadian electoral context. Heliyon, 5(4), e01453. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01453

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Social advertising (social issues)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a small article, that only has one reference. I would like to include some examples in this article, because the topic could be difficult to fully understand without concrete examples. Through research and trying to find sources, I found that this topic seems to be written by Russian authors and/or have ties to Russia. With further research, I would like to possibly create a heading about why this is the case.


 * Sources
 * Tatyana V. Anisimova. (2018). Genres of Social Advertising. Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie, 17(1), 160-171.
 * Peverini, P. (2014). Environmental issues in unconventional social advertising: A semiotic perspective. Semiotica, 199(199), 219-246.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Historical determinism


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article does not have any references, just links to other articles. I know little about this theory, but I think it's an interesting topic. I want to add a few examples to both further my understanding of the topic, as well as aid others in their understanding as well.


 * Sources
 * Pereyra, C. (1977). Historical Determinism. Revista Mexicana De Sociologia, 39(4), 1309-1322.
 * Grünbaum, A. (1956). Historical Determinism, Social Activism, and Predictions in the Social Sciences. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 7(27), 236-240.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Social media as a news source


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is just one giant essay. There are no headings to make it easier to follow; just an essay and references. I would first aim to organize this article, to make it easy for the reader to follow as well as engage the reader.


 * Sources
 * Sveningsson, M. (2015). “It’s Only a Pastime, Really”: Young People’s Experiences of Social Media as a Source of News about Public Affairs. Social Media Society, 1(2), Social Media Society, 09 September 2015, Vol.1(2).
 * Broersma, M., & Graham, T. (2012). SOCIAL MEDIA AS BEAT: Tweets as a news source during the 2010 British and Dutch elections. Journalism Practice, 6(3), 403-419.
 * Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2019). Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(7), 2521-2526.
 * David, C., San Pascual, M., Torres, M., & Scala, A. (2019). Reliance on Facebook for news and its influence on political engagement. PLoS ONE, 14(3), E0212263.

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 * Article Evaluation
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