Online research in cultural studies

• Northern Michigan University’s Lydia M.Olson Library
  NMU library home page
  • online databases and resources by SUBJECT
  • online databases and resources by TITLE
  
  
  
• Need a bank of carefully chosen academic links about cultural studies? Visit the University of Iowa’s compendium of such resources. http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/culturalStudies.html
  
  
• The University of California at Santa Barbara offers "Voice of the Shuttle" a spectacularly useful tool for finding academically sound information in the humanities.
  http://vos.ucsb.edu
  
  
• Students, teachers, and scholars often turn to "Kiss of the Panopticon" for quick access to key figures, ideas, and texts in the field of cultural studies.
  http://www.geneseo.edu/~bicket/panop/home.htm
  
  
• Search engines aregloriously fast and comprehensive. Don’t forget to find out how to use quotation marks in the search line to get the results you want. www.google.com is friendly, popular, and complete.
  
  
• Smart, skeptical, and beautiful . . . no, it’s not John Stewart and it’s not Anna Nicole Smith, it’s the always snarling Adbusters at http://www.adbusters.org.
  
  
• Careful and readable responses to trends and events in contemporary culture make Salon one of the more widely read online magazines. Available at http://www.salon.com, the magazine is not "scholarly" but often notes important ideas and developments.
  
  
• Just a reminder that skepticism and intelligence can turn belligerent. And this makes me happy, so I occasionally visit www.badassmofo.com.
  
  
• Nostalgia’s dangerous tendencies are countered with useful information, graphics, and links at this university-based site. Lots of interesting stuff here about nostalgia's ideologicalroots. Visit http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/tonybaker/bakenostalgia.html.
  
  
• For useful examples of annotated bibliographies visit:
  www.culik.com/hugh/compclass/annotatedbib.html site. Most of our classroom materials are available at www.culik.com/hugh/compclass/syl111.html . . . including this page. And if that’s not a loop, then this isn’t a roller coaster.
  
  

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Assignment

Open a blank e-mail document or a blank Word document and answer the questions below. At the end of today's class, send your answers to hugh@culik.com.

1. Visit the NMU library site (see above) and access one journal article on Jstore. Write out the citation in MLA format. Use http://www.culik.com/hugh/compclass/tools.html to get to the online version of the MLA stylesheet at Purdue University (see above).
   
   
2. Go to the Iowa University site and look at their list of links.
   • Use one of the links to find an online article.
   • Cite the online source using the correct online format available at the Purdue site.
   
   
3. Visit www.portofsaints.com/gilliard.
   • Quickly scan its contents.
   Would such a site be a credible source for a paper assigned in EN 111? Why? Why not?
   
   
4. Go to www.google.com .
   • in the search line type: Naomi Wolf
     • How many hits does this produce?
       
       
   • In the search line now type: "Naomi Wolf"
     • How many hits does this produce?
       
       
   • In the search line type: "Naomi Wolf" + beauty myth
     • How many hits does this produce?
       
       
   • In the search line type: "Naomi Wolf" + "beauty myth"
     • How many hits this produce?
       
       
   • In the search line type: "Naomi Wolf" + "beauty myth" + semiotics
     • How many hits does this produce?