Instruction for doing research online for UNC's Media & Journalism Research Methods course, MEJO 701. These slides were used for the MA course, but they are relevant to the PhD students as well.
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MEJO 701 Library Instruction
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Stephanie Willen Brown
Park Library
swbrown@unc.edu
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INTERNET RESEARCH FOR
RESEARCH METHODS
3. Assignment First Impression
• Pre-class assignment questions:
• What was new to you in the assignment?
• What were you already familiar with?
• What was of particular interest to you, and why?
• What would you like to learn more about?
Image: https://pixabay.com/en/integration-welcome-shaking-hands-1777536/
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4. Finding these Items …
Items to Find Where Found?
Yates, D., & Paquette, S. (2011). “Emergency
Knowledge Management and Social Media
Technologies: A Case Study of the 2010 Haitian
Earthquake.” International Journal of Information
Management, 31(1), 6-13.
Spence, P. R., Lachlan, K. A., Lin, X., & del Greco,
M. (2015). “Variability in Twitter Content Across the
Stages of a Natural Disaster: Implications for Crisis
Communication.” Communication Quarterly, 63(2),
171-186.
Crowe, A. (2011). “The Social Media Manifesto: A
Comprehensive Review of the Impact of Social
Media on Emergency Management.” Journal of
Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 5(1),
409-420.
Difficulty Level?
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9. Think Pair Share
Think on your own:
• What is your topic?
• Write down some search terms you might use to find articles, using
what you have learned in class & from the Library Hacks videos.
• Search in EBSCO for your topic, using the words you generated.
Pair with a classmate:
• Explain your topic in a few words to your partner.
• Share your search terms
• Brainstorm together for new search terms
Share with the class:
• Changes you made after thinking, discussing with a
classmate
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11. Experiment
• Search Your Topic in …
• BOTH
• Google Scholar AND
• EBSCO
• Compare results
• # Results
• Relevance
• Dates
• Getting to full-text
• Ability to modify results
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12. Stephanie’s Search Log
Search Terms # Results Results: Relevant? Timely?
EBSCO
EBSCO
EBSCO
Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Based on Luker’s Sample Search Log
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13. Translated to Search Engine-ese
(job loss* OR layoff* OR lay off* OR
furlough* OR "laid off”) AND (manufac*
OR westinghouse OR "r.j. reynolds”)
AND (WARN Act OR “Worker Adjustment
and Retraining Notification”)
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• How will I manage & format all the articles I find?
• You will identify LOTS of articles you want to read now, or later …
• You may want to organize them into folders by topic
• You will need to format them in APA or MLA citation style.
• Yipes – that sounds time-consuming!
• Save time with Zotero.
• Save citations into a folder
• Reformat them into hundreds of citation styles, including APA, MLA,
and more.
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25. How To: Install Zotero
1. Install Zotero from www.zotero.org/download
• FireFox preferred
• Other browsers require “Zotero Standalone”
2. Watch video by former Park Library staffer about Zotero
at http://bit.ly/1hQwtDV
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26. What Did You Learn Today?!
http://bit.ly/parklibQ
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27. Next Steps
• Stay in touch!
• I will send a follow up email to
Dr. Austinin 2 weeks:
• Highlights of what you learned
today
• Reminder of what we discussed
• Link to guide with curated links
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