Slide #5

• Research Question(s): What research question(s) is this scholar investigating? What question(s) is driving their study?  What are they hoping to answer/address in this piece? Are there hypotheses/predictions that are driving this study?  If so, what are they?
• Should the U.S introduce the Right to be Forgotten law?
• What’s public’s opinion on this legislation? What is their opinion regarding privacy policy, things like the importance of personal, private information.

• Conceptual Definitions/Descriptions: How has this researcher defined or described some of the major concepts/keywords in this study?
• Right to be forgotten: individuals should have the right to request to have their personal information be removed online.

• Methods and Instruments: How did the researcher(s) investigate that question?  How did they conduct this study? What variables did they study?  What kind of data did they collect? What kind of instruments (e.g., survey, interview questions) did they use to collect data?  Can you offer examples of questions that they asked?
• References to similar case: Bill A05323
•                  to other scholars article
• Statistic result:
• e.g  2015 Pew Research: “74% of the Americans stated that control over private information is ‘very important’.”
• Conducted survey using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service
• Sample comes close to the national break down of race and gende r  
• Responders are answering questions after exposed to a potential right to be forgotten law
• Corporate (google and Facebook) and government attitude

• Key Findings/Results: What did this researcher find out?  What discoveries did they make?
• Women express significantly more support than man
• could be due to the vulnerable state of women online
• Those who perceive their online information to be more sensitive are much more likely to support the RTBF
• People in all ages are having increasing awareness of privacy issues online
• “those who prefer a smaller role for the government are more likely to oppose the introduction of a new policy”
• People who have confidence in Google tend to support the law than those who dont
• Argument: In a sentence or two, what new knowledge is this writer is trying to move forward?  What’s the big take-away? What are they trying to persuade their readers of? Hint #1: consider including a keyword(s), especially if it’s embedded within the piece.  Hint #2: the abstract and conclusion typically offer summaries that capture the gist of the whole piece.