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Your library research for this course will focus on finding materials to inform and support your arguments about the representation of cultural identity and/or intercultural communication in a specific mass media text. In particular, you'll be looking at how identity, difference, and communication are related.
Library Catalog
- Voyager Library Catalog
For books at Oakland University - WorldCat
To broaden your search to include several thousand libraries around the world. You can request items you find in WorldCat be sent here through InterLibrary Loan (look for the
option
)
Article Databases
To find reviews of movies, books, etc. try:
- Art
Abstracts
Search for the title of your movie, etc., in quotation marks, as a keyword search (e.g. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding") - Humanities
Abstracts
Search for the title of your movie, etc., in quotation marks, as a keyword search. - MLA
Bibliography
Search for your title, in quotation marks, as a keyword search - Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe News Resources
Select "Arts & Sports" (Step 1) and either "Entertainment News or Book, movie, music and play reviews" for (Step 2). Search for your title as a "headline title, etc" search in quotation marks. If your title is to short/common, try adding the keywords; movie review. Also, make sure you set the "date range" far enough back to cover when your movie/book/etc was released in theatres. Not having much luck? Try searching "General News (Step 1)" and "Major Papers (Step 2)" instead.
For information on how a particular group interacts with/within society, try:
- America: History and Life
- Social
Science Abstracts
Index to the journal literature of the social sciences - Sociological
Abstracts
international index to journals in sociology and related disciplines - Web
of Science & Social Sciences Citation Indexes
Comprehensive citation index with abstracts to journals in the sciences and social sciences - PsycInfo
Comprehensive index to psychological journals
Contact Information
Robert Slater Phone: 248-370-2478
Email:slater@oakland.edu
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Other Resources
You may also want to check these general purpose multi-disciplinary full-text databases. These are full-text databases of scholarly journals:
These (mostly) full-text databases contain a range of multi-disciplinary content, from popular magazines and newspapers to scholarly journals.
For Demographic Information
For demographic information related to the US population, check the information gathered by the US Census Bureau. Besides conducting the decennial census, the Census Bureau also conducts several other specialized surveys (like the American Community Survey). All of this data is available on the census web site in it's raw form, as well as being issued as specialized publications that pull related information together. You can even extract your own specialized data using the American Fact Finder Program. Areas of interest for this research may include:
- Information on the Ancestry of the US Population, based on the 1990 census
- Information on Race and Ethnicity from the 2000 census
- 2003 American Community Survey : SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS (scroll down to ancestry)
- More up to date information can be extracted from the 2000 census using American Fact Finder (look for tables PCT18, PCT16 and PCT17)
- You can also find some brief information on this topic in the Statistical Abstract of the United States (also available in print at the reference desk and in the government documents collection). Look up your topic in the Index (in my case Ancestry) and you'll be given a table number. Then go to the section that contains that Table Number and jump to your table. Note that this resource gives the briefest treatment to the wealth of data the US government collects. With persistence, you can extract cross reference of ancestry with almost any other variable on the American Fact Finder site.
