Friday, October 30, 2009

RJP3

RJP3

Search statement used: "internet community" and ("Internet community trans*")

Newspaper: "internet community" and ("Internet community trans*")
This yielded 264 for results
I thought this one was the best for related topics that I was after

Internet AND Community development
This yielded 84 for results
Too narrowed and seemed that it wasn’t giving the info I was after

Summary
I found this out about the Comcast community; Was No 1 corporate villain for the "net neutrality" movement. It was important to me as a Comcast user. There was much more interesting but this was impacted me personally.


Stephen Foley. "Spirit of internet at risk, campaigners warn after Comcast move. " The Independent 29 Mar. 2008, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 30 Oct. 2009.

Magazine:
Search statement used: “Internet transformation” and community

“Internet transformation” and community
Search Result Count: 15

Too many results even though there were some interesting topics that gave alternative meanings and other terminologies that could be used in other search statements.
Search Result Count: 1267

Internet and (transform or change) and (community or people)
This yield an enormous amount of hits, the search statement must be narrowed.
Search Result Count: 826914

Summary
From very different viewpoints, two new books ask what online communities are about and where they are headed

"People power. " Rev. of: title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. The Economist 17 May 1997: Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 30 Oct. 2009.

Scholarly Journal
Search statement used: Internet and” community development”
Search Result Count: 84

Summary
This yielded the best results I felt closer to the overall topic of internet therapy(health). It touched base on how the Internet is still in a constant
Form of change and flexibility. Bringing benefits to an users door step,rather than trucking across town and some other benefits also, but still not a 100% covering my topic to which I am looking for, but real close.

Hallett, J., G. Brown, B. Maycock, and P. Langdon. "Changing communities, changing spaces: the challenges of health promotion outreach in cyberspace. " Promotion & Education 14.3 (2007): 150-158. Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 30 Oct. 2009.

Scholarly Journal
Its truly hard to believe that with truncation, parenthesis, AND, OR, Not can make such a vast difference in the search critique. Just typing in the word yield good results but didn’t seem to be much focused on the particular statement as a whole. My experimentation with truncation was dangerous I used it and had 1 hit of over 867,000 results. With some further revision and proper truncation my results got narrowed down to 264 now this was doable as opposed to the later.

1 comment:

  1. Your summary was good - truncation is dangerous isn't it? You do have to be careful. I don't see any annotations of each article though.

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