The document outlines an assignment for a visual culture essay of 2500 words in MLA style, including image citations and requiring eight resources. It provides various topic suggestions related to visual culture, along with research tools like library catalogues and academic databases. Topics range from virtual reality and surveillance to representation in media, with emphasis on correctly using resources and permissions for images.

1. Library Instruction
SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
Visual Culture Essay Topics
The Assignment
 2500 words, 10 double-spaced pages, Times Roman 12 pt.
 Modern Languages Association style
 Insert images and cite correctly
 8 resources
Topic Suggestions & Research Tools and Resources
Essay Topic Research Tools & Resources
Virtual Reality (ex: VR as an alternate  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
“reality” & its relationship to identity; pros  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
and cons; its use in simulation training and  JSTOR
practice)  Project Muse
 Social Sciences Full Text
 Humanities Full Text
CGI (computer generated imagery) (ex:  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
photo-shopped “truth”; sampled actors in  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
cinema)  JSTOR
 Project Muse
 Social Sciences Full Text
MMORPG’S (massively multiplayer online  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
role playing games) (ex: its effect on our (pick  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
one) perception of reality & identity, racial  JSTOR
stereotypes, sense of personal power)  Project Muse
1 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012

2. Library Instruction
SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
Music video (ex: is it entertainment or advertising?)  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
 Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Surveillance (ex: its forms, attributes and counter-indications; issues of  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
privacy and human rights; psychological effects)  Internet (using syntax site:.gc.ca, image search with copyright and
permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Violence in (pick one area) television, advertising, video games or film  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
(ex: aestheticization of violence in Tarantino’s films)  Internet (using syntax site:.gc.ca, image search with copyright and
permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Representation and/or misrepresentation based on (pick one) race,  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
gender, age, sexual preference, disability or difference in (pick one)  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
advertising, television or film (ex: Images of older women in  Project Muse
advertising; depiction of first nations in film)  Humanities Full Text
 Social Sciences Full Text
The embodiment of technology, biological engineering and visuality  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
(ex: how cyborg are we, pros and cons?; glowing rabbits, robo-bugs &  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
hybridity, the limits of bioengineering)  JSTOR
 AGRICOLA
 Project Muse
Cyberculture (ex: virtual relationships & worlds; avatars and online  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
loves and lives)  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
2 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012

3. Library Instruction
SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
 Project Muse
The News (ex: how information is managed to control mass beliefs and  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
actions; online connections & bypassing large corporations – is it  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 American History and Life
possible?)  Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Reality television, Lifestyle magazines, tabloids (trailer trash truth or  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
worthy entertainment?)  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
 American History and Life
 Social Sciences Full Text
Advertising’s colonization of spaces (ex: billboards, buildings, clothing,  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
movie, websites).  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 American History and Life
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
 Social Sciences Full Text
3 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012