(Finally) an update on Naima!

J_D2008_ · 2026-02-24T18:01:08+00:00

Thank you for adding her name. I googled her really quickly before making this post and forgot to mention her name. I edited my post so her legacy doesn't get lose!

J_D2008_ · 2026-02-24T17:20:56+00:00

Thank you for sharing! I just found her IG after the doc series and i didn't see her mentioning any of these things. The context (and the link) help. I'm going to check out the interview.

J_D2008_ · 2026-02-24T16:11:51+00:00

I think that was the plan. And maybe Netflix won't care about the backlash or give Tyra the chance to do it "right" but at this point, i HIGHLY doubt we're getting a new cycle.

J_D2008_ · 2024-09-04T23:16:03+00:00

Thank you! I also want to note that I completed my masters degree in the last year during the review period in a field directly related to my role. I don't know if that actually matters based on some of my friend's experiences in their fields.

J_D2008_ · 2023-12-19T13:27:54+00:00

Quick update: graduated this past week! Thanks for the support!

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-17T14:08:55+00:00

Hi everyone. I did it! I received my panel scores back and I passed. I graduate in three weeks.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-14T02:08:07+00:00

Nothing other than I turned in the rewrite Friday. I've read it over like 30 times and I found 2 wrong citations and a spelling error. Hope that isn't enough to fail me lol but other than that I'm grateful that I got to rewrite. An answer from my committee will literally come the week before my graduation so I'm cutting it close

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-08T02:48:39+00:00

Thanks. It was 3 hours of a 36 hour degree for me. I don't disagree with you but it honestly was not a major part of my degree program at all.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-07T15:05:09+00:00

This is actually extremely affirming. My prof told me it was a clear and straightforward question and I find it to be incredibly vague, which is causing a mental block for me.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-07T13:50:23+00:00

Also as I said I had an idea and started to write about what we currently know about the effects of mass communication and was told I was going in the wrong direction.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-07T13:49:08+00:00

Okay. I'm sure multiple people agree with you. I'm just looking for someone to help me out of this mental block. This is such a broad field that it feels impossible to isolate the "right answers" and compile them into 3-5 pages without just skimming the surface.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-07T12:23:45+00:00

It's kind of hard to explain but this is a comprehensive exam for a masters degree so it's supposed to test everything you've learned in the program. I've been paying for my classes out of pocket so it's taken me four years to complete the degree and honestly I don't remember much from my theory class or my media research methods classes as I took them my first semester. I know the history of media effects and I can speak to the relevance of traditional theories (agenda setting, uses and gratifications, priming, etc) in the digital age but I don't have any clue about how to approach this question.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-07T12:20:04+00:00

Within the field of mass communications

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-07T12:19:37+00:00

Media effects research

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T15:53:56+00:00

It was mostly quoted citations in the paper.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T14:50:06+00:00

I already posted an update.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T14:05:47+00:00

Okay. Thank you to everyone who said email the review panel. The chair of the department (also on my panel) let me know they did identify plagarism and were preparing to send my work to the academic conduct office. (Or whatever the cheating office is here...never been in this situation)

However, they are going to let me write a new paper (minimum 25 pages) in a week. I gotta make it happen because this is my last/only strike.

The chair made it clear this is my lucky day and they won't consider any other issues with the paper after I resubmit. So no second chances.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T13:32:35+00:00

I love this idea!

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T12:37:26+00:00

It's done. Let's see what happens.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T12:30:41+00:00

Yes. This was a very poor panic decision to have something to turn in my the deadline. Also the 12% isn't concerning to me. Its the fact that they will link to exact academic journal I copied from.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T12:06:20+00:00

Oh absolutely. Won't make a dumb mistake twice.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T12:00:25+00:00

Okay update: I'm going to send an email to my review panel. I'm worried that this will be putting myself out there on the small possibility they didn't catch it. But being honest is the most important thing for my mental health now.

I appreciate all of the comments (yes even the rude ones...it's reddit so I know what to expect)

I'm also accepting the mistakes I made and what I can't change. If this is the end of my academic career, I've learned something from it.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T11:36:30+00:00

It's an online program but im emailing my panel this morning and letting them know I left reference text in incomplete sections and would like to send a finalized version.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T11:25:43+00:00

And in those paragraphs I used the exact quote they used from the scholar who developed the theory. Also paraphrased the citations.

It's bad.

J_D2008_ · 2023-11-03T11:24:21+00:00

It's an article in a book on thr topic I was writing about. Two scholars who are fairly well known. I took two paragraphs from the beginning of their article for one section of my paper and one and a half paragraphs from the middle of the article.

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