User:Med20a/Choose an Article
Article Selection
[edit]Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.
Option 1
[edit]- Article title
- Parasocial interaction
- Article Evaluation
- This article is listed as start-class and C-class across three different disciplines, so it has room for improvement. The information is varied and detailed, and there's even an entire section about parasocial interactions during and due to COVID-19, so it is up to date. It's neutrally written, and the sources are comprehensive and mainly academic. This article is very well written and includes so much information that it may not be the absolute best choice to revise, considering it is already so extensive.
- Sources
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1469540514521081
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748048510393658
Option 2
[edit]- Article title
- Mean world syndrome
- Article Evaluation
- The talk page for this article is WILD!!! People seem to be in agreement that this page/ topic is kind of baseless. Reading the talk page before the actual article did make me more critical of the overall page, and I found myself agreeing with the posters. There are very few sources, and the author makes very generalized claims. This page could be truly overhauled.
- Sources
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/009365094021005003
- http://wiki.commres.org/pds/CultivationTheory/LivingWithTelevision_TheDynamicsoftheCultivationProcess.pdf
Option 3
[edit]- Article title
- Participatory surveillance
- Article Evaluation
- This article is also pretty brief, and it is chiefly focused on how participatory surveillance operates within epidemiology. It would be interesting to include other examples of how this concept works in other ways so that readers have a firmer grasp of what participatory surveillance is across multiple subjects. For what it currently is, the article is well-written, but it could use more examples.
- Sources
- https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2142
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/41261942
Option 4
[edit]- Article title
- Third-person effect
- Article Evaluation
- This article seems to have very little traffic. It has not been assessed on Wikipedia's content assessment scale, and there is only one comment on the talk page. It is a small article, but it has the makings to be made into a stronger page. It has a few sections explaining the theory and its support. It would be interesting to provide examples as this theory applies to concepts like advertising, politics, and media.
- Sources
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/107769909307000107
- https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/8/2/163/684632
Option 5
[edit]- Article title
- Influencer marketing
- Article Evaluation
- This is another article that has drama on the talk page. This article was nominated for deletion in 2010, and there are lots of people on the talk page who say it is a poorly written article. The actual article is much shorter than I thought it would be, and it seems a bit dated. Again, this is a page that could be rewritten to its full potential. Influencer marketing has so many facets that it would be interesting to offer more specific examples and create a stronger article about it.
- Sources
- https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/MIP-09-2018-0375/full/html
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02685/full