Over the past week, I have meet with a few individuals who have provided me with some insight and gave me more direction for my research. For my keywords I used “Principal Leadership Style” as well as “Educational Leadership”.

Bibliography:

1. Heidmets, M., & Liik, K. (2014). SCHOOL PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP STYLE AND TEACHERS’ SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AT SCHOOL. Problems Of Education In The 21St Century, 6240-50.
2. Nir, A. E., & Hameiri, L. (2014). School principals’ leadership style and school outcomes The mediating effect of powerbase utilization. Journal Of Educational Administration, 52(2), 210-227. doi:10.1108/JEA-01-2013-0007
3. Shouppe, G., & Pate, J. L. (2010). Teachers’ Perceptions of School Climate, Principal Leadership Style and Teacher Behaviors on Student Academic Achievement. National Teacher Education Journal, 3(2), 87-98.
4. Niesche, R. (2017). PERPETUATING INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION: VALUING PURPOSE OVER PROCESS IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP. Advances In Educational Administration, 26235-252. doi:10.1108/S1479-366020160000026013
5. Oplatka, I. (2017). “IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP” AND UNETHICAL PRACTICES IN SCHOOLS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE “DARK SIDE” OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP. Advances In Educational Administration, 261-18. doi:10.1108/S1479-366020160000026001

The set of keywords I used to find these sources were “superheroes,” “hero-worship,” “comic books,” and “female leadership”:

Bibliography (MLA)

It was fun playing around with Zotero for the first time and I can see why you are obsessed with it! I used the keywords “Representative Democracy, Social Media, and Twitter in Politics” to obtain these results. I found five sources that I believe will be useful, but have yet to go through each of them.

Bibliography

Alonso, Sonia, John Keane, and Wolfgang Merkel. 2011. The Future of Representative Democracy. Cambridge University Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=9iWxeJ9knnwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false.

“Analysis of Political Discourse on Twitter 2016 Election.” n.d. Accessed February 12, 2018. https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0740624X17301910/1-s2.0-S0740624X17301910-main.pdf?_tid=84cd4cca-1010-11e8-9614-00000aacb35e&acdnat=1518452557_88d5af7f3ab0a0ffafdb70fb59822b08.

“Liberation Technology.” n.d. Accessed February 12, 2018. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Diamond-21-3.pdf.

Loader, Brian D., and Dan Mercea. 2012. Social Media and Democracy: Innovations in Participatory Politics. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Social-Media-and-Democracy-Innovations-in-Participatory-Politics/Loader-Mercea/p/book/9780415683708.

Tucker, Joshua A., Yannis Theocharis, Margaret E. Roberts, and Pablo Barberá. 2017. “From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media And Democracy.” Journal of Democracy 28 (4): 46–59. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2017.0064.

Topics/questions to research:

• The history of women’s rights in different countries – where have they varied and why?
• What kinds of struggles do women face world-wide?
• Theories about biological/other reasons women haven’t had rights and when they have, why have they still struggled to have an equal voice?
• Why do men receive more support in athletics than women do? – “they’re more entertaining to watch” – but why did more people watch the women’s world cup than the men’s — the women win a lot more and have a bigger fan base yet only make a fraction of the amount the men do – amount paid seems to be worldwide in sports
• It’s rare to see a woman coaching a men’s team but common for men to coach women’s teams — why?
• New Zealand –> first country to give women suffrage, have more women graduating with STEM degrees than men (how many other countries are like this?) – coincidence? They don’t have equality in sports though – no Title IX –> what does this say about following up with legislation?

Keywords:

• Women vs. Men in leadership positions
• Historical leaders and gender
• Gender in STEM fields
• History of women’s rights
• Women’s rights today
• Women in sports

Possible research places:

• UR Library Database
• Very Short Introduction
• CQ Researcher
• Books for historical data on women in leadership positions
• Articles from Theories and Models about gender

• Databases
  • Pscyh net
  • PsychINFO
  • EBSCO host
  • Library Catalogue
• Keywords
  • Adrenaline & cognition
  • Spirituality & health psychology
  • Groupthink
  • Risk taking & wellbeing
  • Wellbeing
  • Exercise & groups

I am planning on researching the ways that Representative Democracy has changed as a result of the increased presence of social media in the United States. What does Representative Democracy mean today, and how has it changed as a result of social media?

I will need to research 1) the history of Representative Democracy, 2) the original intention of Representative Democracy, 3) the turning point of social media use, 4) the role of social media in politics/how it has changed over time, 5) Donald Trump’s use of Twitter, 6) the meaning of Representative Democracy today/how it deviates from its original meaning

Key Words:

• Democracy
• Representative Democracy in the United States
• Social Media and Politics
• Social Media and Democracy
• Populism
• Donald Trump Twitter
• Voter Turnout 2016 elections
• Recent political trends

I will start my research process by going to the University of Richmond Library page and using the key words (above) to find any relevant journal articles, books/ebooks, documentaries, or news stories. Once I find relevant sources, I will look at the citations that these sources used, and then use these to dive deeper into the research process. I may also use google scholar, Jstor, or ask previous Political Science professors for help.

Things to research:
Group psychology, interpersonal communication, relationship, self-identity, Cultural Revolution

Possible resources:
Google Scholar, JSTOR, encyclopedia
Psychology: PsycNET, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
History: Cambridge Histories Online, historical abstracts, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Chinese Studies
Rhetoric and Communication Studies?

Things to research – topics, keywords, etc.:

• history of television
• television industry (current)
• women in comedy
• feminist film/TV studies / media studies
• female writers, producers, creators, showrunners
• depictions of women in leadership roles on TV
• keywords: comedy, women, television, feminist, leadership, Tina Fey

Possible resources:

• Books
  • history of America TV/comedy/entertainment/media, to get a historical context
  • memoirs and autobiographies, for first-hand accounts, anecdotes, insider perspective
• Interviews
• the shows themselves
• articles from periodicals about:
  • feminist media studies
  • popular film and television
  • cultural studies (21st century America)
• Encyclopedia of Television

My current list of possible topics would leave me with a very long list of possible things to research, so I’m going to focus on just one or two. I’m choosing Group Decision Making and International Perception of US Politics over time.

For Group Decision Making, I will definitely have to study on the psychology related to the topic of decision making and more specifically group decision making. For this, I could look at any of the many prestigious psychology journals available and check their table of contents ant indexes for articles related to my topic. If I wanted to look more specifically at the difference between group decisions and individual decisions, I would have to search more directly for studies related to this topic, so I would use the UR library database. I might try with keywords such as “decision”, decision making”, “group”, “individual”, “outcome”, and so on.

For International Perception of US Politics over time, I would so more primary research work on international newspapers writing about US politics. For this I would probably go directly to the websites of these papers and search for articles about US politics. If the significance of this research questions was related to how perception affects foreign policy, I could search for scholarly articles on this topic in the UR Library database, using keywords such as “United States”, “Foreign perception”, “foreign relations”, “implications”, and so on.

Things to research:

• Female Implicit Leadership Theories
• Racial Implicit Leadership Theories
• Feminism and Violence
  • Women Warrior Trope?
• Comic Book History
• Marvel and D.C. Comics History
• Hero-worship
• Wonder Women History
• Black Panther History
• Superheroes in relation to American History
• Romantization of Leadership
• Psychology of Film

Possible Research Sources

• The Journal of Leadership Studies
• All the Books!
• Resource databases through Boatwright
• The films/comics themselves