MySpace

ASCBC Lecture:
Lane, Frederick. "Lost in MySpace: Social Networking, Student Privacy, and Self-Protection." Associated Students of Columbia Basin Coll. Columbia Basin Coll. HUB, Pasco, WA. 13 Mar. 2007.

CQ Researcher Issue:

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Cyber Socializing." CQ Researcher 16.27 (2006): 625-648. CQ Researcher Online. CQ Press. 3 Mar. 2007 .

Internet socializing has become hugely popular, and Web sites that help people meet potential dates, find new friends and keep track of old ones are big business. Hundreds of sites attract tens of millions of users, and more sites come online daily. Born along with the Internet in the early 1970s, online socializing has helped people worldwide link to others with common interests for conversation and support. Nevertheless, new social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace raise more troubling privacy issues than traditional Internet chat rooms. Visitors to such sites can access not only individuals' posted profiles but also profiles of their friends. Parents and law-enforcement agencies worry that predators can use the information to contact vulnerable teens. Some states are considering requiring tighter security and confidentiality, and a bill introduced in the House of Representatives would require schools and libraries to block teenagers from the sites.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Online Report:

Lenhart, Amanda and Mary Madden. How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace. 18 Apr. 2007. Pew Internet & American Life Project.

A new survey and a series of focus groups conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project examines how teens understand their privacy through several lenses: by looking at the choices that teens make to share or not to share information online, by examining what they share, by probing for the context in which they share it and by asking teens for their own assessment of their vulnerability.

Articles:

Valkenburg, Patti M., Peter, Jochen, and Alexander P. Schouten. "Friend Networking Sites and Their Relationship to Adolescents' Well-Being and Social Self-Esteem." CyberPsychology & Behavior 9.5 (2006): 584-590. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 3 March 2007.

Andrews, Michelle. "Decoding MySpace." U.S. News & World Report 141.10 (2006): 46-60. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 3 March 2007. .

Teen use of MySpace.com and safety as it (should) concern parents.

Rawe, Julie, et al. "How Safe is MySpace?" Time 168.1 (2006): 34-36. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 3 March 2007. .

Hempel, Jessi, and Paula Lehman. "The MySpace Generation." Business Week (2005): 86-96. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 3 March 2007.

Using MySpace and other social networking sites as marketing/advertising platforms.

Medintz, Scott. "Talkin' 'bout MySpace Generation." Money 35.2 (2006): 27-27. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 3 March 2007.

Finder, Alan. "Guess Who's Looking at Your Web Page?" New York Times Upfront 18 Sep. 2006: 16-17. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 3 Mar. 2007 .

These two articles discuss the potential use of MySpace.com and Facebook.com sites by prospective employers when evaluating candidates for a job.

NPR News
Talk of the Nation, December 4, 2008 · Is Creating A Fake Online Profile A Criminal Act?

Jazz - Biography Resources

Current Biography Illustrated - Biographies of public figures, including musicians, 1940 to present.

Grove Music Online - includes The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers may be found in EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier and ProQuest. The Historical New York Times includes articles written during the lifetimes of many jazz greats.

The CBC Library Catalog contains many books on jazz musicians.

Searches 1 - Keywords & Truncation (Factory Farms)

This is the first in a series of posts illustrating how to use our library databases, beginning with searching.

Choosing Keywords – starting with some background information we select words or phrases that commonly but uniquely represent our topic. After we run some basic searches in EBSCOhost or ProQuest the databases will suggest topics or subjects, allowing us to change our keywords to improve our search results. For instance, this CQ Researcher abstract has several keywords highlighted:

Weeks, Jennifer. "Factory Farms." CQ Researcher 17.2 (2007): 25-48. Are they the best way to feed the nation? Most U.S. meat, poultry, eggs and milk come from so-called factory farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations), where thousands of animals are confined indoors. While they efficiently produce abundant supplies of affordable food, CAFOs also raise questions about animal welfare, public health and environmental degradation. Large livestock farms create huge quantities of animal waste, which produce noxious air emissions and contaminate water supplies when storage facilities leak or overflow. Overuse of antibiotics to keep animals healthy in crowded conditions helps generate drug-resistant bacteria and spread infections in humans. And many critics argue that long-term confinement in small enclosures or cages harms farm animals. Organic and free-range meat and eggs are increasingly popular, but they are more expensive than conventional meat and dairy products, and some organic suppliers are adopting industrial-style methods to keep up with demand. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

I picked words that I thought were specific enough to avoid many 'false hits' - articles that didn't have anything to do with my topic. For instance, I didn't pick 'animals' and 'indoors' since I don't want to read articles about the benefits/problems of keeping your pets inside.

Note that these are the concepts I selected; I could have chosen to focus on the use of antibiotics and the growth of resistant bacteria instead. Now I can take these keywords and group them into concept areas, maybe adding a few alternate keywords along the way:

Concept 1: factory farms, CAFOs, concentrated animal feeding operations, livestock
Concept 2: environment, waste (also pollution)

Truncation - most of our databases let you use the * (shift-8) character to take the place of any number of characters at the end of a word. This lets us capture various forms of a keyword without having to type them all in. For instance, farm* = farm, farming, farms, farmer, etc. Here are my keywords with truncation:

Concept 1: factory farm*, CAFO*, concentrated animal feeding operation*, livestock
Concept 2: environment*, waste, pollut*

I am careful about how closely I truncate my keywords - poll* = poll, polls, pollster as well as all the keywords I really want (pollut*=pollute, polluted, polluter, pollution).

Now that we have some keywords to work with we can construct searches.