Digging Deeper

For this collaborative, 30 minute podcast episode, my partner and I have estimated that we would need perhaps 10 scholarly sources as a foundation to ask and investigate our research question. This is an over-estimate (at least I hope) accounting for the articles and scholarly research that won't end up being useful to our episode. 

So far we have several scholarly pieces we are sifting through, including: 

Amy Becker, The Impact of Exposure to Political Comedy and Cable News on Factual Recall and Anticipated Political Expression

John Marshall McKenzie, Televised Political Satire: The New Media of Political Humour and Implications for Presidential Elections

Seth Lewis, Where Young Adults Intend to Get News in Five Years

James Trier, “The Daily Show” as an experiment in journalism

We are looking for studies on source informants of current events to a specific audience. Studies in the varying ethical journalism between satirical news programming, and formal news broadcasting is of particular interest. This focus of research has largely been focused on in the communications field, as well as studies in new media. Thus far Jstor has been an excellent database, in providing articles that are available to York. Pro quest searches have provided what seem to be perfectly topical articles, but they seemed to be unavailable to our library. 

The study of your podcast focuses on the facts and journalism of varying news sources, so the majority of our research is dependent on news reports-both the formal and the satirical. So far we have found all of our satirical news sources: 

Rick Mercer Report, Rob Ford Rant, November 19, 2013 (http://m.youtube.com/watch?

v=sfdoLedAWWg)

Jon Stewart The Daily Show, Toronto Crack Mayor Rob Ford, November 5, 2013 (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WpBOCa0-mTs)

Jon Stewart The Daily Show, Obama and Mayor Rob Ford, November 14, 2013 (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGMtmLVcZg)

Saturday Night Live, Rob Ford, November 17, 2013 (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7jK90IIG8)

Now we are in the stages of compiling the formal news reports and clips that we will be using for the episode. Kenya and I have chosen to focus our news research on specific outlets, specifically CBC, USA Today, CNN, CP 24 and the Toronto Star. 

Happy Reading week all!