Debate Team Help Page: Christ College Debate 3, Spring 2008

RESOLVED: Commercial tracking and marketing should be banned from MySpace and Facebook.

Finding Articles [off campus access] [tips]

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CQ Researcher 48 full-text reports a year on current, hot, and controversial topics, providing balanced introductions to the issues, cross references to related reports, excellent tables and graphs, and clear instructions on how to cite the resource (search using the phrase "social networking") [more...]

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Subject Headings (use for Subject searching in Galileo)
  Online social networks
  Internet
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  Internet advertising
  Marketing -- Databases
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  Consumers -- Research
  Consumer behavior
  Economics -- Psychological aspects
  Mass media

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Reference & Background Information Resources [tips]

Online -- Selected Reference Resources

Print -- Christopher Center Reference, 2nd floor
Online marketing handbook : how to promote, advertise, and sell your products and services on the Internet Ref. HF5415.1265 .J36 1998
The Elgar companion to consumer research and economic research and economic psychology Ref. HF5415.32 .E48 1999
The Advertising age encyclopedia of advertising Ref. HF5803 .A38 2003

Encyclopedia of communication and information Ref. P87.5 .E53 2002
Encyclopedia of international media and communications Ref. P87.5 .E535 2003

Recommended Internet Resources [tips]

Facebook Is Marketing Your Brand Preferences (With Your Permission)
   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/technology/07adco.html

Data Privacy Lab @ Carnegie Mellon
   http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
   http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/socialnetworks/index.html
   http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/facebook/index.html

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Evaluating Sources

Critical Evaluation of Resources
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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
   http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
   http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
      Examples
         http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalexpl.html

 

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