Question Wording

In order to make a well-founded assessment of this research question, it would be safe to analyze a ten[ish]-year period. Since media has evolved exponentially in the last ten years, this would give us a clear view of the situation. In order to do so, however, we would need to target some people that have been eligible to vote within the last ten years. By doing so, we could try to correlate an increase in the levels of media coverage from (given that part of my hypothesis is that media coverage increases as we near the present era, due to an increase in popularity and number of social media outlets [i.e. Facebook and Twitter]) and see if there is also an increase in the voter turnout/political participation. This would allow us to assess our research question and would allow us to display and organize our information in a nice time-series graph. Assuming that we are measuring the voter turnout in the last few BC elections, here is a question that we could potentially use.

A) Did you vote in any of the following BC elections? Check all those that apply. 1. 1997 2. 2001 3. 2005 4. 2009

And then we could also ask the questions on media coverage/sources within the same context… For example:

B) How do you get your news? C) Has there been an increase in the availability of the news (on cable or on the internet) within the last decade? D) Are you more aware of political issues than you were in the past? E) Does that push you towards or away from participating in politics?