CMNS 130 Scholarly research Sylvia Roberts Communication Librarian

CMNS 130: Scholarly research Sylvia Roberts Communication Librarian sroberts@sfu. ca 778 -782 -3681

Short essay / Reading response • Format: two discussion questions to the readings + your response to one of them (700 words). • Essay 2 should be based on two course readings + two external sources (an academic essay and an academic book) with annotations. • Annotations will show the relevance of external sources to the topic discussed • The optional topics for the second essay will be these: • • • Information Internet Labour Surveillance Media ecology

Assigned readings • ‘information’ OED • Streeter, Thomas. “Internet, ”in Digital Keywords. A Vocabulary of Information, Society & Culture. Edited by Benjamin Peters (Princeton University Press, 2016), 184 -193. • Qiu, Jac. k. Linchuan (2012) “Network Labor: Beyond the Shadow of Foxconn. ” Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication and the i. Phone. London: Routledge: 173 -189. • Mark Andrejevic: “We Are All ‘Lab Rats’ Online” (PBS, 2014). • Hirst, Martin, John Harrison and Patricia Mazepa (2014). “We Know What You’re Doing. . . The Surveillance Society Has Arrived, ” Communication and New Media: From Broadcast to Narrowcast. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press: 268 -293. • Burrington, Ingrid. “A Rare and Toxic Age, ” Increment 4 (February 2018). • Lewis, Simon and Mark Maslin, “Defining the Anthropocene, ” Nature 519 (May 2015): 171 -178.

How to… • Use citation information to find the full text of a book or article reference • Use the SFU Library catalogue to find research materials on a topic • Use databases to find articles in peerreviewed journals • Find additional sources of research and writing support

Qiu, Jac. k. Linchuan (2012) “Network Labor: Beyond the Shadow of Foxconn. ” Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication and the i. Phone. London: Routledge: 173 -189.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS • How have labour conditions for Foxconn workers changed since the Qui article was published in 2012? • Other ideas?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS • How have labour conditions for Foxconn workers changed since the Qui article was published in 2012? • How would you find research materials that would help you address this question? • Think for 1 minute • Share your thoughts with the person next to you (2 minutes) • De-brief as a group

Library catalogue searches § SCOPE: 95% of the SFU Library collection (online articles, print and e-books, reports, media, etc. ) § § § Search by keyword Modify or filter search results Investigate promising titles Determine availability of full text Use metadata & references to find related records

AND produces results that have at least one word from each box Foxconn Labour OR Labor OR Workers conditions

Article databases • SCOPE: Finding tool for articles, conference proceedings, book reviews. Often includes full text or links to full text. • Key journals in a discipline • Each record covers one article and includes • Metadata (title & author of the article, journal title, volume, issue and page number of the article) • Descriptive information (abstract, subjects or keywords) • SFU Library lists databases by subject and title • Start with Communication and Mass Media Complete • Limit to scholarly or peer-reviewed articles

What is peer review? •

Research consultations • Ask a Librarian services • In person at each library • Ask Away (chat) • Sylvia Roberts, CMNS librarian • sroberts@sfu. ca • By appointment: in person (Burnaby & Vancouver), by phone or Skype

Writing help • How to write an annotated bibliography • Citation and style guides • Student learning commons • One-on-one consultations or drop-in

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