Preliminary Research Topic (revised)
My research
direction has changed a lot.
I would like to
research on comparison between Presidential families in the U.S. and South
Korea.
Korea has
produced the first female President (Geun Hye Park) in 2012, who is the
daughter of President Jung Hee Park who occupied the Presidency during
1970~80s. As they are the first father-daughter Presidents in Korea, I have
recognized many Korean media have framed the President Park not only as a
female politician but also as a “daughter” of the former President. And this
fact stimulated my curiosity to compare Korea’s media coverage with the U.S.’s
new coverage on one of recent Presidential families in the U.S., George H.W.
Bush and George W. Bush. (For example, I read an article from LA Times whose
headline is “Bush’s legacy is partly his father’s.”)
I might examine:
During
Presidential children’s presidency, how their fathers were portrayed (framed)
on media coverage in the U.S. and in Korea?
(How media used “family”
frames; including the direction and tones of media coverage)
How Presidential
son and daughter are like or different from their fathers?
How media
coverage on Presidential families in the U.S. and in Korea can be compared?
These are just
rough ideas and they are subject to change and be detailed, of course..
AR: I see some difficulties with your proposed ideas, although I do think they are interesting. 1. How can you compare US and Korean coverage when you are looking at their coverage of different presidents, with different families? (Sounds to me like you want to see how the US covers the Bush family and how Korea covers the Park family?). 2. Doesn't the ways in which the fathers are portrayed/framed depend on how they were as presidents? 3. I'm not sure how "differences between the sons/daughters and fathers" constitute a media study research question -- can you clarify? Mainly, it sounds to me like you want to compare apples and oranges. However, I think it would definitely be interesting to see how the "family frame" is used differently in the US and Korea, though it may be best to focus on the same presidential family for comparable analysis -- so the basis of your comparison would be "how the family frame is used differently to cover X" (which would allow you to discuss the role culture plays in such frames perhaps), rather than "how different presidential families are covered by different news media."
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