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"Defining
Communication Theories"
(web document from McGraw Hill)
Surveying the
Literature Landscape
Understand your topic; read assigned text(s)
and recommended readings. Note key concepts. Prepare thesaurus (keywords, search terms, names of scholars,
and the like.)
Become acquainted with major scholarly journals
(journals
that require articles to be peer reviewed prior to publication; popular
magazines are not peer reviewed) in your
field. [Note: the following is a selected list.]
- American
Communication Journal (ACJ) 1997 -
- Communication Abstracts
- Communication Research
- Communication Theory
- Critical Studies in Mass Communication
-
The Iowa Guide
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
- Journal of Communication
- Journal of Mass Media Ethics
- Journal of Media Economics
- Journal of Media Psychology
- Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs
- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
- Mass Comm Review
- Media History
- Media Psychology
- Media, Culture, & Society
- New Media & Society
- Newspaper Research Journal
- Other scholarly research resources for possible
consideration include: published conference proceedings, research reports,
government documents, statistical references, polling data,
subject-specialty handbooks, yearbooks/annuals, bibliographies
Primary and
secondary resource materials
How does one find the current issue of these
journals?
- Go to this URL http://www.lib.unc.edu.
Select "Advanced Search." On the next screen, highlight "Journal Title," then type in the journal title.
Finally, press the "search" button.
Should you discover that neither Davis Library nor our Park Library have the
journal you need, your next step is to go to
http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid and click on "W" for WorldCat. Search
for your journal title in that database.
Which online databases offer access to scholarly journals'
archives?
- E-Journals
http://www.lib.unc.edu. Click on the link to "E-Journal Finder." On the
next screen,
type in journal title, press enter, and note where you can locate archives
(citations, abstracts, full-text.)
- Online Databases (electronic resources for scholarly,
popular, and trade publications)
http://www.lib.unc.edu. Click on the link to "Article Databases," then
click on the letter corresponding to the name of the database. Also, you may
click on "Research by Subject" to discover the
databases and research guides available for "Journalism and Mass
Communication." [Note,
see list of likely databases below.]
WorldCat
12th century - to date
WorldCat is a union
catalog of more than 39 million records representing the electronic holdings of
several thousand libraries. This database includes bibliographic records for
books, dissertations, journals, audio-visual materials and manuscripts, some
written as early as the 12th century. Note: This database does not include
individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book
chapters.
Infotrac Web:
Expanded Academic [Note: limit results to refereed journals] - 1980 - to
date
InfoTrac SearchBank Indexes provides access to three (3) databases. Many
citations include the full-text of the article. The databases are: General
BusinessFile Internat'l, 1982-; Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-; LegalTrac,
1980-.
Communication and Mass Media Complete - 1915 - to date
CMMC
completely indexes and abstracts over 300 journals covering the study of
communication and mass media, and selectively indexes another 100 journals. Full
text of over 200 journals is also available. CMMC combines two earlier indexing tools, CommSearch (formerly
produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles
Index (formerly produced by Penn State) and adds additional journals not covered
by those two.
Sociological
Abstracts - 1963 - to date
A
primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and
related disciplines (e.g., journalism and mass communication) in the social and
behavioral sciences.
ERIC via EBSCO Host
(NCLive)-1967- to date
Covers
education-related research from conferences, meetings, government documents,
theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories,
books and monographs. Includes selected AEJMC conference papers.
Digital Dissertations
1861 - to date
ProQuest
Digital Dissertations, or Dissertations Abstracts, indexes U. S. dissertations
from 1861 to as recent as last semester. The full text of dissertations done at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1997 on are available for
free downloading in PDF format. Citations for dissertations from 1980
on include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 forward have 150
word abstracts. For both dissertations and theses, from 1997 on, the citations
also provide 24 page previews in PDF format. The database covers work done at more
than a thousand institutions, primarily in the United States but also in Canada
and Great Britain, and at other European universities for recent years
ABI Inform Global via ProQuest
(NCLive) 1971 - to date
ABI/INFORM
Global is a business and management database providing extensive coverage of
North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing,
management, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.
Also, information on 60,000+ companies.
PsychoINFO - 1887- to
date
Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO covers the
professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Includes indexing for over 1,300 journals worldwide in more than 20 languages,
as well as book chapters.
JSTOR (E-Journals): Social Sciences/Cultural
Studies. Coverage varies. Contains full text articles.
JSTOR
provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly
all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign
areas studies, and many of the sciences. A retrospective digitization project,
it provides a collection of complete backfiles of hundreds scholarly
periodicals, starting with the first issues. A moving end-date wall excludes the
most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals
Other Online Resources:
- AEJMC Scholarly conference papers
database Searchable conference papers by faculty and grad students
since 1994 to date. Select "Search the Archives." Suggested keyword(s):
(mass comm theory); (mass communication theory)
- Questia Promoted
as "The World's Largest Online Library."
Now
with over 50,000 books and 399,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
All books and articles are available in their entirety - search every page
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GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Develop an appropriate thesaurus of search terms: (selected
listing)
- mass communication theory
- media effects
- media messages
- media bias
- content analysis
- research methods
- case studies
- media uses and gratifications theory
- diffusion of innovation
- Internet addiction
- [names of mass media theories, e.g., agenda-setting theory,
spiral of silence theory, information theory, Wesley-MacLean model, etc.]
- four theories of the press: Authoritarian theory,
Libertarian theory, Social Responsibility theory, Soviet-Totalitarian
theory)
- "Defining
Communication Theories" (web document from McGraw Hill)
Discover the scholarly literature review
process
Bibliographies
Interlibrary
Loan (from Davis Library)
[Note: First-time users of ILL must register, then you may
request material by completing an ILL form on the Davis Library web site. Expect
a delay of several days to 3-4 weeks.]
Selected Reference Books:
Dictionaries
and Encyclopedias
| Dictionary of Communication and Media Studies |
REF P87.5 .W38 1997 |
| Dictionary of Quotations About Communication |
REF PN6081 .D535 2000 |
| Encyclopedia of Communication and Information |
REF P87.5 .E53 2002 |
| Encyclopedia of International Media and
Communications, 4 v. |
REF P87.5 .E532 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of New Media |
REF QA76.575 .E5368 2003 |
| Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and
Communication |
REF P87.5 .D35 2000 |
| Language and Communication: A Cross-cultural
Encyclopedia |
REF P29 .F47 1998 |
| Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition |
REF PN172 .E53 1996 |
| World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems
Worldwide |
REF PN4728 .Q53 2003 |
Handbooks
and Guides
| Communication Yearbook, 27 (in Park Library) |
TH .C734a 2003 |
| Handbook of Communication and Emotion |
BF637 .C45 H283 1998 |
| Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature |
REF PN4731 .C38 1997 |
| Mass Communications Research Resources: An Annotated
Guide |
HE7631 .M37 1998 |
| Mass Communication Review Yearbook, 1-6 v. (in
Park Library) |
TH .M414 1987 |
Scholarly Integrity and Plagiarism
Questionable Resources
[NOTE: Interesting, provocative, maybe even useful at some
levels of inquiry, but if you start with these resources, print or online, it is
unwise to limit your research to these typically non-scholarly materials.]
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