How to Find a Topic for a Research Paper About High School Journalism

As a former newspaper writer currently seeking my degree in secondary education, I've narrowed in on topics relating to high school journalism. I learned much about this topic as a high school journalist and in classes for my BA in journalism, but want to take a new look at the topic through the lens of an administrator or teacher.

Through searches on Google Scholar and Ebsco for "high school journalism," or "high school media," I uncovered a plethora of topics both interesting to me and hopefully broad enough to have some current research, but narrow enough to make a suitable topic. Five of these topics I am considering include: how can high schools better approach media coverage that creates eating disorders and general low self esteem in teenagers; how does media, in all forms including web social tools, impact learning in classrooms; how do newspaper advisors tackle censorship in high school publications; what new media publications are high schools developing; is the high school newspaper dieing, in lines with newspapers at large; the uses of newspapers in the classroom as both an educational tool and as a means of increasing newspaper readership amongst a younger generation.

How do newspaper advisers tackle censorship in high school publications? A good high school media advisor cherishes the foundations of media, freedom and the role of media as a watch dog. Any study I have done on the topic were from the viewpoint of a high school journalist, in favor of limited censorship, or as a college student also biased to lifting limitations. Before embarking in a career path as a newspaper adviser, I want to explore the reasons why censorship is sometimes good, with an open mind to my previous biases.

I found an article about the repercussions an adviser felt who allowed her students to publish an article about homosexuality on Lexis Nexis to come up with this subject. I found several other articles about censorship case studies. The interview in an upcoming paper should be especially enlightening to this topic. I am really interested in learning about how advisors toe the line between defending parent wishes and administrator fears between their students' freedom of speech. I brainstormed several other questions following Ballenger's lead. Do certain United States locations experience more or less censorship in their schools? What is the history of censorship in high schools? What are the laws relating to high school media and the rights of high school journalists?

The next topic I explored was high school educational response to media stereotypes. Again, as a student, I encountered the subject in several classes, but am wondering why administrators and teachers do not develop more lesson plans and educational opportunities to educate students about how to be intelligent media consumers. For instance, a lesson about how magazines take real woman and "Photoshop" their images into an impossible ideal. This subject seems more difficult to research in traditional educational databases, but I did find a few articles that would be helpful on Ebsco. A Google scholarly search led me to an article about mass media and girls' weight concerns. Several articles on those lines exist, but I would need to find more to back up educators' response. Other questions I thought of: What is the impact on high school boys? Do high school publications also enforce negative images and stereotypes? How can high school students become better media consumers? Through searches on Google Scholar and Ebsco for "high school journalism," or "high school media," I uncovered a plethora of topics both interesting to me and hopefully broad enough to have some current research, but narrow enough to make a suitable topic. Five of these topics I am considering include: how can high schools better approach media coverage that creates eating disorders and general low self esteem in teenagers; how does media, in all forms including web social tools, impact learning in classrooms; how do newspaper advisors tackle censorship in high school publications; what new media publications are high schools developing; is the high school newspaper dieing, in lines with newspapers at large; the uses of newspapers in the classroom as both an educational tool and as a means of increasing newspaper readership amongst a younger generation. How do newspaper advisors tackle censorship in high school publications? A good high school media advisor cherishes the foundations of media, freedom and the role of media as a watch dog. Any study I have done on the topic were from the viewpoint of a high school journalist, in favor of limited censorship, or as a college student also biased to lifting limitations. Before embarking in a career path as a newspaper advisor, I want to explore the reasons why censorship is sometimes good, with an open mind to my previous biases.

I found an article about the repercussions an advisor felt who allowed her students to publish an article about homosexuality on Lexis Nexis to come up with this subject. I found several other articles about censorship case studies. The interview in an upcoming paper should be especially enlightening to this topic. I am really interested in learning about how advisors toe the line between defending parent wishes and administrator fears between their students' freedom of speech. I brainstormed several other questions following Ballenger's lead. Do certain United States locations experience more or less censorship in their schools? What is the history of censorship in high schools? What are the laws relating to high school media and the rights of high school journalists?

The next topic I explored was high school educational response to media stereotypes. Again, as a student, I encountered the subject in several classes, but am wondering why administrators and teachers do not develop more lesson plans and educational opportunities to educate students about how to be intelligent media consumers. For instance, a lesson about how magazines take real woman and "Photoshop" their images into an impossible ideal. This subject seems more difficult to research in traditional educational databases, but I did find a few articles that would be helpful on Ebsco. A Google scholarly search led me to an article about mass media and girls' weight concerns. Several articles on those lines exist, but I would need to find more to back up educators' response. Other questions I thought of: What is the impact on high school boys? Do high school publications also enforce negative images and stereotypes? How can high school students become better media consumers?As a former newspaper writer currently seeking my degree in secondary education, I've narrowed in on topics relating to high school journalism. I learned much about this topic as a high school journalist and in classes for my BA in journalism, but want to take a new look at the topic through the lens of an administrator or teacher.

Through searches on Google Scholar and Ebsco for "high school journalism," or "high school media," I uncovered a plethora of topics both interesting to me and hopefully broad enough to have some current research, but narrow enough to make a suitable topic. Five of these topics I am considering include: how can high schools better approach media coverage that creates eating disorders and general low self esteem in teenagers; how does media, in all forms including web social tools, impact learning in classrooms; how do newspaper advisors tackle censorship in high school publications; what new media publications are high schools developing; is the high school newspaper dieing, in lines with newspapers at large; the uses of newspapers in the classroom as both an educational tool and as a means of increasing newspaper readership amongst a younger generation.

How do newspaper advisers tackle censorship in high school publications? A good high school media adviser cherishes the foundations of media, freedom and the role of media as a watch dog. Any study I have done on the topic were from the viewpoint of a high school journalist, in favor of limited censorship, or as a college student also biased to lifting limitations. Before embarking in a career path as a newspaper advisor, I want to explore the reasons why censorship is sometimes good, with an open mind to my previous biases.

I found an article about the repercussions an adviser felt who allowed her students to publish an article about homosexuality on Lexis Nexis to come up with this subject. I found several other articles about censorship case studies. The interview in an upcoming paper should be especially enlightening to this topic. I am really interested in learning about how advisers toe the line between defending parent wishes and administrator fears between their students' freedom of speech. I brainstormed several other questions following Ballenger's lead. Do certain United States locations experience more or less censorship in their schools? What is the history of censorship in high schools? What are the laws relating to high school media and the rights of high school journalists?

The next topic I explored was high school educational response to media stereotypes. Again, as a student, I encountered the subject in several classes, but am wondering why administrators and teachers do not develop more lesson plans and educational opportunities to educate students about how to be intelligent media consumers. For instance, a lesson about how magazines take real woman and "Photoshop" their images into an impossible ideal. This subject seems more difficult to research in traditional educational databases, but I did find a few articles that would be helpful on Ebsco. A Google scholarly search led me to an article about mass media and girls' weight concerns. Several articles on those lines exist, but I would need to find more to back up educators' response. Other questions I thought of: What is the impact on high school boys? Do high school publications also enforce negative images and stereotypes? How can high school students become better media consumers?