2016 confirmed that news and social media go hand in hand. Here is an upcoming conference, dealing with issues, which are very close to content of this class; you can use to generate brainstorming for your final project’s topic:
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/01/18/collecting-preserving-and-transforming-the-news/
as a bonus, I threw in my slideshow from the National Library of Iceland.