ssdb 275

library research workshop

FALL 2024

TO FIND THESE SLIDES & MORE:

Google: sexuality concordia library

tomorrow:

...and OPEN TO ALL – NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Discussion and presentation of film and media resources on decolonizing at Concordia and across Montreal Location: SHIFT Centre, LB 145

library web site:

your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca

ZOOM office hours most Tuesdays 3-5, or by appointment

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ZOOM & H-1132 office hours: most Tuesdays

3:30-5:30 pm

OR by appointment

AskUs Desk
Webster LB building:
 

most Tuesdays 1-3

most Fridays 4-5

AskSusie, every Tuesday 3:30-5:30 pm, ask any question under the sun about research or the library

pronouns: she/her/elle

today

  1. Library workshop and practice
     
  2. Get started on your assignment:
    METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS

 

  1. Identify and select a scholarly/peer-reviewed article focused on sexuality research
     
  2. within the article, identify:
    -research question(s)
    -method(s)
    -research outcomes/results/conclusions
     
  3. Cite (with page numbers) the article you found + the supplemental article(s) and include a bibliography

 AS PART OF THE METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS, you MUST:

NEED ASSISTANCE WITH ANY OF Those agenda ITEMS ?

but first:

 ask questions - GET HELP:

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at the AskUs desk

 

via chat

 

via email

 

by phone

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Need assistance beyond a quick chat,
and have a bit of time to plan?

your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca

ZOOM office hours most Tuesdays 3-5, or by appointment

Text

ZOOM & H-1132 office hours: most Tuesdays

3:30-5:30 pm

OR by appointment

AskUs Desk
Webster LB building:
 

most Tuesdays 1-3

most Fridays 4-5

AskSusie, every Tuesday 3:30-5:30 pm, ask any question under the sun about research or the library

pronouns: she/her/elle

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Simode de Beauvoir Institute

Feminist library & Learning Centre

ER building, 2155 Guy Street, 6th floor

monday-thursday 9 am - 9pm +  friDAY 9 AM - 5PM

contact: isabelle.lamoureux@concordia.ca

finding scholarly articles

related to sexuality research topics

where  do you like to search?

tell your classmate

Search for specific library books, ebooks, articles and films

 but go beyond sofia to search for topics...

Use your  subject guide!

Google: 
sexuality
concordia library

Find Articles: try these DATABASES

NOTE: EBSCO databases can be searched together. Just click on: Choose Databases

how can you access / download articles FROM EBSCO DATABASES?

WHAT ABOUT GOOGLE SCHOLAR?

  • Huge and multidisciplinary
     

  • Great for finding RECENT articles and tracing scholarly conversations
     

  • No “peer-reviewed” checkbox – not everything is peer-reviewed!
     

** tip: SET UP Google Scholar to access Concordia online resources frome home

tip:

WHAT ABOUT JUST BROWSING?

JOURNALS

your turn

Find at least 3 possible articles for your assignment using ANY of these:

ANALYZING &

EVALUATING SOURCES:

is it scholarly/

peer-reviewed?

peer-reviewed articles checklist

In many Library Databases you can use a checkbox:

test yourself - which one(s) is/ARE peer-reviewed?

 

This blog entry reports on an interesting study which involved many academics, but it is NOT an academic/scholarly/ peer-reviewed article

This IS an academic/scholarly/
peer-reviewed article. Important clues: published in an peer-reviewed journal, academic language, distinct sections, long bibliography of references.

still not quite getting it?

VIDEO: peer-review in 3 minutes

still not quite getting it?
view our video

analyzing &

evaluating sources: 

elements of

a scholarly research article

anatomy of a typical
scholarly research article

graphic showing typical sections in a scholarly article, in this order: Journal/publication name/info, Article Title, Authors, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Bibliography
  • Introduction/Literature Review
     
  • Research Question/Thesis statement
     
  • Methods
     
  • Key concepts/theories
     
  • Findings/Outcomes
     
  • Conclusion/Limitations/Further research

 some elements of a scholarly research article

  1. Identify and select a scholarly/peer-reviewed article focused on sexuality research
     
  2. within the article, identify:
    -the research question(s)
    -the method(s)
    -the research outcomes

     
  3. Cite (with page numbers) the article you found + the supplemental article(s) and include a bibliography

 AS PART OF THE METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS, you MUST:

my example:

(but note that my scholarly article is focused more on feminism & media studies  than sexuality research)

....This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press ... We show that the #MeToo coverage has followed and reinforced familiar patterns with respect to news coverage of both sexual violence and feminism, namely, support of feminism alongside a concurrent de-politicization, an individualizing tendency through a focus on celebrity and the cultural industries, and the centring of the experiences of celebrity female subjects who are predominately White and wealthy.

(provides good summary & some context)

Abstract

 The article is organized in four parts.

  1. The first section situates our study within current scholarship on the rise of popular and neoliberal feminism as well as in relation to research on the depiction of feminism and sexual violence in the news.
     
  2. Informed by this literature, in the second section, we introduce the key questions our study seeks to address, namely, has #MeToo been framed in supportive terms? What issues has the coverage focused on? And, what types of solutions were offered for the issues that #MeToo has raised?
     
  3. We then discuss the study’s methodological design, the coding frame and the rationale for conducting content analysis. This third section presents the key findings.
     
  4. Tying together the strands of the analysis, in the conclusion we discuss the significance and limitations of the coverage of the #MeToo campaign in the UK national press, linking this discussion to wider debates about the current possibilities and challenges facing feminism in a mediated age.

which section(s) will have
research question(s)
or method(s) or outcomes?

 The article is organized in four parts.

  1. The first section situates our study within current scholarship on the rise of popular and neoliberal feminism as well as in relation to research on the depiction of feminism and sexual violence in the news.
     
  2. Informed by this literature, in the second section, we introduce the key questions our study seeks to address, namely, has #MeToo been framed in supportive terms? What issues has the coverage focused on? And, what types of solutions were offered for the issues that #MeToo has raised?
     
  3. We then discuss the study’s methodological design, the coding frame and the rationale for conducting content analysis. This third section presents the key findings.
     
  4. Tying together the strands of the analysis, in the conclusion we discuss the significance and limitations of the coverage of the #MeToo campaign in the UK national press, linking this discussion to wider debates about the current possibilities and challenges facing feminism in a mediated age.

which section(s) will have
research question(s)
or method(s) or outcomes?

questions in section 2 

methods and findings in section 3

 Informed by the literature on the rise of popular feminism and the coverage of feminism and sexual violence in the news, our study examines how #MeToo has gained visibility and whether such visibility was sustained over the first 6-month period following Alyssa Milano’s tweet. Has #MeToo been framed in supportive terms? Does the coverage show patterns identified by previous research, namely, the individualization of women’s experience of sexual violence and the de-politicization of feminism?

To address these questions, we conducted a content analysis of the campaign’s coverage in the UK press. While, to date, analysis of #MeToo’s coverage has been scarce and largely based on small-scale qualitative data (see Conor et al., 2018; Gill and Orgad, 2018; Hemmings, 2018; Tambe, 2018), our study offers a more comprehensive understanding of the patterns of this coverage, its prevalence and characteristics over time.

can you find
research question(s)
or method(s) or outcomes?

 The article is organized in four parts.

  1. The first section situates our study within current scholarship on the rise of popular and neoliberal feminism as well as in relation to research on the depiction of feminism and sexual violence in the news.
     
  2. Informed by this literature, in the second section, we introduce the key questions our study seeks to address, namely, has #MeToo been framed in supportive terms? What issues has the coverage focused on? And, what types of solutions were offered for the issues that #MeToo has raised?
     
  3. We then discuss the study’s methodological design, the coding frame and the rationale for conducting content analysis. This third section presents the key findings.
     
  4. Tying together the strands of the analysis, in the conclusion we discuss the significance and limitations of the coverage of the #MeToo campaign in the UK national press, linking this discussion to wider debates about the current possibilities and challenges facing feminism in a mediated age.

which section(s) will have
research question(s)
or method(s) or outcomes?

questions in section 2 

methods and findings in section 3

your turn

Pick one of the articles you found and try to start reading and reviewing it as described in your Methodology Analysis Assignment Instructions. If it doesn't work, try looking for another article......

bibliography &
citationS

 AS PART OF THE METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS, you MUST:

  1. Identify and select a scholarly/peer-reviewed article focused on sexuality research
     
  2. within the article, identify:
    -research question(s)
    -method(s)
    -research outcomes/results/conclusions

     
  3. Cite (with page numbers) the article you found + the supplemental article(s)
    and include a bibliography

what's the simplest way to  properly cite?

it depends.

Start by picking a

citation style  (APA, MLA, ChiCAGO)

your turn

Practice writing a test/draft paragraph for your Methodology Analysis paper, and adding one or more in-text citations, as well as one or more full references for your bibliography.

* Make sure to  double check your generated citations - they are not always correct! Use the Library's citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.

keywords & search strategies

TIP WHAT IT DOES EXAMPLE

AND

 
Combines concepts. Limits how many results your search produces
 

police
AND
violence
OR

 
Allows for synonyms or alternative terms. Increases the number or results your search produces.
 
violence OR brutality
 
*

 
Near the end of a word, retrieves all words that start with the letters entered. Increases the number of results a search produces Canad*
(retrieves Canada, Canadian)
 
“ ” For two words or more, search for an exact phrase only, rather than each keyword separately. Limits how many results your search produces “systemic racism”
(retrieves systemic racism, but not systemic oppression related to racism)

search tips & tricks
 standard library article databases

handout to download:

search strategies

Google Scholar strategies:

  • use OR for alternative terms
     
  • use quotation marks " " for phrases
     
  • DON'T use AND (it is implied)
     
  • DON'T use * ( happens automatically)

example of a keyword

combination in socindex

example of a search in "standard"
EBSCO Article Databases

bodybuild*
 

AND

 

women OR females OR "gender roles"
 

IN EBSCO library ARTICLE DATABASES:

IN GOOGLE SCOLAR:

(bodybuilding OR bodybuilders) (women OR females OR "gender roles")

(YouTube, 7 mins)

Developing your search strategy: VIDEO

search strategy test yourself

from our Library Research Skills Tutorial:

literature reviews

Most peer-reviewed articles  include a literature review within their text, even when it is not separatey labeled as such

these paragraphs are part of the literature review:

Popular feminism, sexual violence and the news

Popular and neoliberal feminism

The past few years have witnessed the increasing visibility of feminism across an array of media. Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey and Miley Cyrus, high-powered women in the corporate world such as Sheryl Sandberg, movie stars like Emma Watson and the new Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, are the new faces of feminism. If just a decade ago, prominent feminist scholars were writing about the coalescing of a postfeminist sensibility and the renunciation of feminism in the mainstream and popular media (Gill, 2007; McRobbie, 2009), today, by contrast, the cultural landscape seems to be characterized by the widespread embrace and popularity of feminism. Sarah Banet-Weiser (2018: 8) has even suggested that ‘[t]he question du jour for female (and some male) celebrities has become, “Are you a feminist?”’ Moreover, recent accounts have shown that a dominant strand of feminism circulating in mainstream and popular media, particularly in the Anglo-American world, is one that encourages women to focus on their personal empowerment and aspirations (Banet-Weiser, 2018; Rottenberg, 2018). Indeed, championing gender equality and identifying as a feminist have become a mark of pride and source of cultural capital for many high-profile women. The UK press has been a central site in which this type of ‘popular’ (Banet-Weiser, 2018) or ‘neoliberal’ (Rottenberg, 2018) feminist discourse, which tends to obscure structural critiques of gender inequality, has been disseminated and, thus, gained prominence.

LIT REVIEW JOURNALS

PRIMARY SOURCES

thanks to Rachel Harris and Vince Graziano for inspiration for this slide

WHAT ARE THEY?

Original sources of evidence created at the time of an event or thereafter

The material that your interpretation is based upon.

sources that YOU analyze, and that other secondary sources analyze
POSSIBLE EXAMPLES
newspaper articles
advertisements
photos, images, videos
journals and diaries
interviews
autobiographies/memoirs
social media posts /  blogs / forums
websites of organizations
films / videos
archival records
survey responses
field notes
government documents
surveys & polls

methods & PRIMARY SOURCES

can the library help:

METHOD LIBRARY PRIMARY SOURCES? 
INTERVIEWS not really, unless they are recorded in a publication somewhere. If YOU are interviewing, then your interviews and interview notes are the primary source
CONTENT ANALYSIS news databases (for analysis of news articles);  films/videos; government documents; surveys & polls;  historical databases with diaries...
FOCUS GROUPS  NOPE!
DIGITAL ARCHIVAL RESEARCH primary source databases, BANQ digital archives.....
PARTICIPANT ACTION RESEARCH  NOPE! 
CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS same kind of library sources as for content analysis
PARTICPANT OBSERVATION
AUTOBIOGRAPHY autobiographies / memoirs, collections of autobiographical essays....

though we offer primary source databases at concordia, these offer only limited  examples of what you can find.

if you don't already know of primary sources related to your topic, first learn more about your topic... then find your primary sources 

just one example:

NEWS ARTICLES as primary sources: 

 try one of our NEWS DATABASES

 

ProQuest Canadian Newsstream - includes major Canadian daily newspapers like the Montreal Gazette, as well as regional news sources
 

ProQuest International Newsstream -  includes international newspapers
 

ProQuest US Newsstream - includes major US daily newspapers like the New York Times, as well as regional news sources
 

 

Factiva - includes Canadian and international news sources -- lots of interesting and unusual search options

 

Eureka.CC - similar sources as Factiva, but more FRENCH language sources

accesing items at concordia and beyond

Search for library books, ebooks, articles and films

what if the library doesn't have it ONLINE?

request a book and pick it up later....

or use the call number and locate button to find it

what if the library DOESN'T have it at all?

search for it in any library worldwide:

... and simply request it!

SSDB 275 FALL 2024

By susie breier

SSDB 275 FALL 2024

Library Workshop slides for ssdb 275, Wnter 2024, Prof. Yuriy Zikratyy

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