Every semester, in my Mass media and society class, I require students to engage with mass media research. This is usually their big final project.
They turn in a proposal, an annotated bibliography and collect data and then present in class.
Here are a few selected student presentations.
The Dark Side of Social Media by Benting Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqdEhsd9F0I
Hypersexualization in Mass Media by Benjamin Huebner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI3X-Jb97CI&feature=youtu.be