wsdb 292
library research workshop
at the AskUs desk
via chat
via email
by phone
ask questions - GET HELP:
your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca (she/her)
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ZOOM office hours: most Tuesdays
3:30-5:30 pm
OR by appointment
AskUs Desk
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Google: concordia library women's studies
today
- Library Workshop and Practice
- Group Library Assignment:
- Finding and analyzing the thesis statement, literature review, methods, and key concepts/theories of an article
what about YOUR future ASSIGNMENTS in this course?
where does the
library come in?
identify primary sources (objects of your qualitative data analysis)
INCLUDE citations and bibliography: chicago author-date STYLE
for your papeR or PROPOSAL, you need to:
find scholarly research related to your topiC & write a mini LITERATURE REVIEW
tell me here:
what else MIGHT HELP YOU?
BUT remember:
NEED ASSISTANCE WITH ANY OF THE agenda ITEMS we just discussed?
ask questions - GET HELP:
at the AskUs desk
via chat
via email
by phone
Need assistance beyond a quick chat,
and have a bit of time to plan?
your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca (she/her)
Text
ZOOM office hours: most Tuesdays
3:30-5:30 pm
OR by appointment
AskUs Desk
Webster LB building: most Tuesdays 1-3
Text
Google: concordia library women's studies
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A message from the Principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute on October 2:
"Most recently we have secured funding to ensure that our Feminist Reading Room and Learning Centre provides students with staffing support from 9 am- 9 pm from Monday-Thursday, and from 9 am-5 pm on Fridays. Please note that Isabelle Lamoureux has already begun to work in the Reading Room 9-5; we will inform you as soon as a graduate student has been hired to work in the evenings.
Simode de Beauvoir Institute
Feminist Reading Room & Learning Centre
ER building, 2155 Guy Street, 6th floor
contact: isabelle.lamoureux@concordia.ca
finding research
related to your topic
my topic:
GENDER DIVERSITY STAFF TRAINING IN CANADIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
where should i enter my keywords and search for
research on this topic?
tell your classmates
Search for specific library books, ebooks, articles and films
but go beyond sofia to search for topics
use your WSDB 292 LIBRARY GUIDE
Reminder:
SAMPLE SEARCH #1
my topic
sample search #2
...interesting results might include:
other examples
example: multiple ebsco databases
I am interested in Carol J. Adams and her iconic but controversial feminist work, the Sexual Politics of Meat. Critics claim that she ignores the relational aspects of veganism, and of eating, and that the discussions around her work lack an intersectional lense.
...more examples
*see also: search tips & strategies
In the smaller and more specialized Gender Studies Database I can enter a broader, less focused search and browse the results for relevant ideas.
In sociology databse SocINDEX, I can look for other examples of research that has employed content analysis to similar subjects .
now how can you access / download those articles?
| TIP | WHAT IT DOES | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
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AND |
Combines concepts. Limits how many results your search produces |
police AND violence |
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OR |
Allows for synonyms or alternative terms. Increases the number or results your search produces. |
violence OR brutality |
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* |
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:
example of a keyword
combination in socindex
(YouTube, 7 mins)
Developing your search strategy: VIDEO
search strategy test yourself
from our Library Research Skills Tutorial:
PRIMARY SOURCES
(objects of your data analysis)
in the library
use your WSDB 292 LIBRARY GUIDE
Reminder:
PRIMARY SOURCES
thanks to Rachel Harris and Vince Graziano for inspiration for this slide
| WHAT ARE THEY? |
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Original sources of evidence created at the time of an event or thereafter |
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The material that your interpretation is based upon. |
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sources that YOU analyze, and that other secondary sources analyze |
| POSSIBLE EXAMPLES |
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| 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.... |
reminder:
use your WSDB 292 LIBRARY GUIDE
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
what about autobiographies?
you can start anywhere, even google, to identify primary sources such as AUTOBIOGRAPHIES or memoirs
sample google searches
you can then go to the LIBRARY's
sofia search box to find out if we have
or can get those titles...
example
not found at Concordia!
2. EXPAND your search:
select Bibliothèques universitaires du Québec
1. Search Sofia for:
found it!
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
- TIP: Use the ProQuest Select Databases tool to select and search all three ProQuest news databases simultaneously
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
analyzing &
evaluating sources
anatomy of a scholarly article
- Thesis statement
- Literature Review
- Methods
- Key concepts/theories
some elements of a scholarly article
article:
....This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press, revealing how newspapers played an important role in heightening the campaign’s visibility. ... However, our study also highlights how the press’ role in enabling and expanding the visibility of #MeToo has been characterized by a number of crucial and, we argue, problematic factors. 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.
abstract
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.
The study - Research design and methodology
what about
THAT literature review?
Our article is organized in four parts.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
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.
is it academic / 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
what about
google scholar?
findit@concordia TIP:
"cited by" TIP:
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2
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referencing &
citationS
For your assignments, you need to use the CHICAGO author-date citation style.
What about automatic citation tools
instead of style guides ?
a) citation generators (Ex: those provided within databases like SOCindex or Google Scholar)
b) citation management tools (ex: ZOTERO)
* Make sure to double check your generated citations - they are not always correct! Use the Library's CHICAGO citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.
* Make sure to double check your generated citations - they are not always correct! Use the Library's CHICAGO citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.
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!
WSDB 292 2023
By susie breier
WSDB 292 2023
Library Workshop slides for WSDB 292, professor Michiko Aramaki, Fall 2023
