RJA #10a: Thesis Statement

Thesis statement:

In today society of mass media, not everything is acceptable to be see or heard. This is why the government and certain organization intervene. Censorship has become a more common practice in today's society. Censorship has developed a love-hate relationship with he government and the people.

RJA #9: Evaluation of Sources

Book: The three books that i have found on censorship are basically about all the opposing views of censorship, government involvement, and censorship in society.
1. Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints
Publisher: Thomas Gale, 2005
2. Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2002
3. Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints
Publisher: Greenhaven Press & Thomas Gale, 2004

Periodical: i have been unsuccessful in finding a periodical

Website: A bunch of the web sites that i have found all deal with censorship in ways such as censorship during wartime, censored news stories

http://www.ncac.org/index.php

http://www.projectcensored.org/

http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/cenandsec.html

RJA #8c: Multimedia

Video Surf

Censorship, U.S. Government, Mass Media

Date of searched: 10/19/09

Number of hits: 0

Rating: 1

RJA #8b: Social Media

Social Media Search Tool

-Addictomatic

Censorship, U.S. Government

Date of search: 10/19/09

Number of hits: 1

Rating: 1

-Blog catalog

Mass Media, Censorship, U.S. governmen

Number of hits: 1

Date Search: 10/19/09

Rating: 2

RJA #8a: Websites

Search Engine: Zakta

U.S. Government, Censorship, Mass Media

My strategy used was searching in news, books, and research journals.

Date searched: 10/15/09

Number of hits: about 15 to 20

rating: 5

Meta and Multi search engine: Academic Index

U.S. Government, Censorship, Mass Media

Date Search: 10/19/09

Number of hits: about 5

Rating: 1

Directory: Yahoo! Directory

U.S. Government, Censorship

Date searched: 10/19/09

Number of hits: 2

Rating: 3

Invisible Web Search: Turbo 10

Mass Media, Censorship, U.S. Government

Date Searched: 10/19/09

Number of hits: 7

Rating: 3

RJA #7c: Field Research Plan

I am not sure about what method I am going to used for my field. I suppose it would be easy to interview people about mass media and censorship. Some question I might ask would be:

-Do you feel that the mass media is meeting your informational needs?
-Do you feel that the corporations and governments have too much power over what we see and hear in the media?

RJA #7b: Internet Research Tool Test

Zakta
Resource searched: Zakta

Keywords used: Political Science+Government+ Mass media censorship

Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches)

I did not used very specific keywords. I used very broad terms.

Date of search
10/13

Number of hits
I received about two hits every time i used different keywords

Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5)

3 or a 4

RJA #7a: Internet Research Tools

The search engine that i use the most would be Google. It is not the most advanced or accurate, but it gives me an idea of what I am trying to look for. The one thing I like about Google is the ease of use. I feel that it does not take a whole lot knowledge to use. What I do not like about Google is that it can give many web hits that do not have anything to do your search topic. If Google is not working for me, i would turn to the Yahoo search engine. I have an email account with Yahoo so I am familiar with the search engine. What I like about Yahoo is that it gives you narrow they first part of your search topic to general topics first. Search topics like sports, business, and popular culture. The one thing that I don't like about Yahoo is that it is used a lot for advertising.

Google

Yahoo