Proposal Assignment

3-Discussion Board Assignment

In this Discussion Board, create a post and respond to others using the chapter on Proposals but also your initial research. This is an excellent opportunity to describe to classmates what you are focusing on, what areas of research you are excited about, and what areas of research you are entering into that is new for you.

Write respond both of the classmate’s posts.

First Classmate ‘s Post

My proposal topic revolves around gentrification and what can be done to limit its negative effects. I’m most excited about finding a credible person who is educated on this topic so I can interview them and use them as one of my sources. This way I have a lot more credibility if I were to find that my overall research aligns with my interviewees information. I seek to interview someone as I have noticed that my sources are usually in the form of websites or books. I want to offer more variety in my sources that reflects the amount of time invested in my research.

Writing a formal proposal with various different elements is new to me. I’ve never written a proposal in which I include visuals. Also, this is one topic in which the solutions are not handed to me in my research. In many occasions, when I research a problem, I also research its solutions and I usually find them quickly. For gentrification, however, there are multiple suggested solutions and not one main solution that stands out. I feel this way I’ll be encouraged to further contemplate and research all the solutions. As a result, my research on all of the possible solutions will allow me to weigh each solution against each other and choose main solutions that I truly believe.

Second Classmate’s Post

The research that I will be doing will be focused on big data’s effect on democracy and how major tech companies and politicians use psychology/sociology to attain what they want by using massive amounts of data collected from citizen’s private lives. I’m interested in how the psychological aspect is used in this context. It’s a relatively new concept in tech and how it relates to voting and politics is fascinating – and a little frightening. Although psychology is closely related to sociology, sociology is a pretty new discipline for me to delve into so I’ll be spending a lot of time exploring that it and how it’s connected to government and technology. I’m hopeful that the topic I chose allows me to write a well-rounded paper since it involves multiple disciplines: matters of the mind, tech, and politics.