HUM 142 Sources for Research Assignment - see NOTE about off-campus connections

*Asterisk next to the title indicates a resource from a course lesson.

• Ethical and Legal Issues (security, privacy, censorship, filtering tools, child safety, copyright)
• Access/Digital Divide
• The Deep (Invisible) Web, Internet Searching
  • Wikipedia
• Information Literacy
• Web Authoring and Design
• Internet: Social Aspects
• Internet at Work
• Online Education
• Blogs and News
• Recommended Web Sites

NOTE: The library database links work only on campus; from off campus computers, you must follow these steps:

• Access the QCC Alden Library.
• Select Online Databases.
• Choose the service (EBSCO or Gale/Cengage).
• Login with your ID number (or library bar code if you have this) and your last name.
• Choose the database(s) such as Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic ASAP, or Academic OneFile.
• Use the article title or appropriate keywords to access the source.
• To complete MLA format for the Internet and library database articles, you must add the date you accessed the source.

Ethical and Legal Issues

Many articles below apply to more than one category.

"After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology." PBS Newshour. 4 January 2010. Web.

On laws governing security, privacy, and censorship

"ACLU v. Mukasey: The Legal Challenge to the Child Online Protection Act." EPIC.org. 3 Feb. 2009.

Kaplan, Carl. " "Clinton: Internet Barriers Have 'Moral, Political and Economic' Costs." 15 Feb. 2011. The Rundown News Blog: PBS Newshour. Web.

McCullagh, Declan. "Discriminatory filtering: CIPA's effect on our nation's youth and why the Supreme Court erred in upholding the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act." Federal Communications Law Journal 57.3 (May 2005): 555(24). Expanded Academic ASAP. Web.

Hinman, Lawrence M. “ "Ethics Updates - Esse est indicato in Google: Ethical and Political Issues in Search Engines.” International Review of Information Ethics 3 (June 2005): 19-25. Web.

Kaplan, Carl. " Kaplan, Car. "How the Decency Decision Defined the Net." New York Times. (3 July 1997):  LexisNexis.

"Talking Points on the Importance of 'Net Neutrality.'" Educause.edu. March 2006. Web.

Privacy and Security

Awad, Neveen Farag, and Kristina Fitzgerald. "The Deceptive Behaviors that Offend Us Most About Spyware." Communications of the ACM 48.8 (Aug 2005): 55-60. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Thornbergh, Dick, and Herbert S. Lin, Editors. Youth, Pornography, and the Internet. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, 2002. The National Academies Press. Web.

Bays, Hillary, and Miranda Mowbray. " "Cookies, Gift-Giving, and the Internet." First Monday 4.11 (November1999). Web.
    Here is a unique view of cookies from several years ago.

Bonfield, Brett. " "Consuming information: we're all learning how to create new web content, but what are the best and fastest ways to process it?" Library Journal 132.17 (Oct 15, 2007): 26(4). Academic OneFile. Web.

Goldsborough, Reid. "Who's storing your words?" Teacher Librarian 35.4 (April 2008): 62(1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Web.

Hillyard, Daniel, and Mark Gauen.. " Hillyard, Daniel, and Mark Gauen. "Issues Around the Protection or Revelation of Personal Information." Knowledge, Technology & Policy 20.2 (Summer 2007): 121-124. Academic Search Premier. Web.

" "Protecting Privacy in a Web Searching World." 27 July 2007. Science Friday. National Public Radio. Web.  (See directions below.)

• In the right column, select "Real audio format" under "searching" to hear the 25-minute program. Guests are Andrew Keen and Javed Mostafa.    (Also listed under Deep Web and Internet Searching)

"Social insecurity." Consumer Reports 75.6 (2010): 24-27. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.

Worona, Steve. "Privacy, Security, and Anonymity: An Evolving Balance." Educause Review 38.3 (May/June 2003): 62-63. Web.

Copyright

"Copyright and wrong." Economist 395.8677 (10 June 2010): 16. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.

Creative Commons. 2012. Web.

Kelly, Kevin. “Scan This Book!” The New York Times Magazine 14 May 2006. 43+ LexisNexis. Quinsigamond Community College Library, Worcester, MA. 18 May 2006.

Templeton, Brad. "10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained." 2008. Brad Templeton's Home Page. Web.

Toobin, Jeffrey. "Google's Moon Shot: The quest for the universal library." 5 Feb 2007.  The New Yorker. Web.

Access/Digital Divide

Bollman, Melissa. "Net Neutrality, Google, and Internet Ethics." Humanist 70.6 (2010): 6-7. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.

"Chinese Internet Censorship." Online Newshour. 18 April 2006. Web.

This is also listed under "Ethical and Legal Issues>Censorship"
Will the existence of the Internet--even a censored one--lead to political reform or to spreading human rights in China?

Fox, Susanna, and Jessica Vitak. "Degrees of Access." 8 July 2008. The Pew Internet and American Life Project. Web.

Tucker, Patrick. "A New Ruler for the Digital Divide." Futurist 41.2 (Mar. 2007): 16-16. Academic Search Premier. Web. (Full text is a PDF file.)

"World Internet Usage Statistics News and World Population Stats."  31 March 2011. Internet World Stats. Web.

The Deep (Invisible) Web and Internet Searching (also see Information Literacy)

(also see Kevin Kelly's "Scan This Book" under Copyright)

Blanchard, Gary. "Dr. Google? Internet revving up for medical emergencies?” Worcester Telegram & Gazette. 27 March 2006. C1. Newsbank. Web.

*"The Invisible Web: What it is, why it exists, how to find it, and its inherent ambiguity." 4 December 2008. UC Berkeley Library. Web.

Lamb, Annette, and Larry Johnson. "Beyond Googling: Applying Google Tools To Inquiry-Based Learning." Teacher Librarian 37.4 (2010): 83-86. Academic Search Premier. Web.

"Protecting Privacy in a Web Searching World." 27 July 2007. Science Friday. National Public Radio. <http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Jul/hour2_072707.html>

• In the right column, select "Real audio format" under "searching" to hear the 25-minute program. Guests are Andrew Keen and Javed Mostafa.   (Also listed under Privacy and Security)

Pariser, Eli. "The Troubling Future Of Internet Search." Futurist 45.5 (2011): 6-8. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Apr. 2012.

Reilly, Michael. "Internet search engines go on trial: court action to uncover search engines' secrets is meant to benefit us all--but will it work out that way?" New Scientist 191.2565 (August 19, 2006): 24(2). Expanded Academic ASAP. Web.

Wright, Alex.  "Exploring a 'Deep Web' That Google Can’t Grasp". 22 February 2009. NewYorkTimes.com.

Wright, Alex. "Searching the Deep Web." Communications of the ACM 51.10 (2008): 14-15. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.

Wikipedia

Carbery, Genevieve. "Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries." 6 May 2009. The Irish Times. Web.

Foster, Andrea L. "What Google's New Encyclopedia Means for Students and Professors." The Chronicle of Higher Education 55.2 (Sept 5, 2008): NA. Academic OneFile. Gale. Web.

Giles, Jim. "Internet Encyclopedias Go Head to Head." Nature.com. 438.7070 (Dec 15, 2005: 900(2).

Maehre, Jeff. "What It Means to Ban Wikipedia." College Teaching 57.4 (2009): 229-236. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.

Pasachoff, Jay M. "Is 'Knol' for knowledge or for pseudoknowledge?" Skeptical Inquirer 32.6 (Nov-Dec 2008: 14(2). Academic OneFile. Gale. Web.

Prensky, Marc. "Search vs. Research: Or the Fear of the Wikipedia Overcome by New Understanding for a Digital Era." 2005. MarcPrensky.com. Web.

Schiff, Stacy. “Know It All: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?” The New Yorker 31 July 2006. Web.

Information Literacy (also see Deep Web and Web Authoring)

Aviles, Kitzzy, Bill Phillips, Tim Rosenblatt, and Jessica Vargas. "If Higher Education Listened to Me." Educause Review. 40.5 (Sept/Oct. 2005): 18 (7). Web.
This article is also listed under Online Education.

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." July 1945. The Atlantic Online. Web.

*Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Atlantic Monthly 302.1 (July 2008): 56-63. Academic Search Premier. Web.

   Carr's article is also available at

   Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The Atlantic.com. July/August 2008. Web.      

Estabrook, Leigh, Evans Witt, and Lee Rainie. "Information Searches that Solve Problems." 30 December 2007. Pew Internet and American Life Project. Web.

Fallows, Deborah. "Search Engine Use." 6 Aug 2008. Pew Internet and American Life Project. Web.

Gomes, Lee. “PowerPoint Turns 20, As Its Creators Ponder A Dark Side to Success.” Wall Street Journal Online. 20 June 2007. B1. Web.

I've included this article because we find so many PowerPoint files on the web. Gomes examines the misuse of the software and the issue of format vs. content which applies to information literacy and web authoring.

Pariser, Eli. "The Troubling Future Of Internet Search." Futurist 45.5 (2011): 6-8. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Apr. 2012.

*Prensky, Marc. "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants." On the Horizon 9.5 (Oct. 2001). MarcPrensky.com . Web.

*Prensky, Marc. "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Part II: Do They Really Think Differently?" On the Horizon 9.6 (Dec. 2001). MarcPrensky.com. Web.

Rizzo, Antonio, et al. "The Net In The Park." Knowledge, Technology & Policy 22.1 (2009): 51-59. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Rosen, Christine. "The dangers of visual culture: the power to control and manipulate images is democratizing, but it may also undermine trust." The Futurist 41.2 (March-April 2007): 29(2). Academic OneFile. Web.

Quint, Barbara. "Emotion and Information." Searcher 14.10 (Nov/Dec 2006): 4-6. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Thompson, Derek. “Is America Addicted to Information?” The Atlantic. 25 Jan. 2010. Web.

Web Authoring and Design (also see Information Literacy)

Lynch, Patrick, and Sarah Horton. Web Style Guide, 3rdEdition.  © 2008-2011. Web.

McKinnell, Jennifer. "Be careful what you wish for: do more resources and tools make a web site better? (web site of Health Sciences Library of McMaster University)." Online 30.2 (March-April 2006): 33(5). Expanded Academic ASAP. Web.

Willmott, Christopher J.R., and Jane Wellens. "Teaching about bioethics through authoring of websites." Journal of Biological Education 39.1 (Winter 2004): 27-31. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Internet: Social Aspects

Cooper, Carol. "Terminally Addicted." Lancet 351.9114 (16 May 1998): 1522. Academic Search Premier. Web.

"Doctor: Internet Addiction Should Be Termed a Disease." The Bryant Park Project. June 12, 2008. NPR.org. Web.

Friedman, Thomas L. "The Age Of Interruption." The New York Times 5 July 2006. A17(L). Academic OneFile. Web.

FRONTLINE: Digital Nation - Life on the Virtual Frontier. PBS.org. 2 February 2010. Web.
This is a 90-minute streaming video.
Also see the Resources section including Digital Parenting (with quizzes), 21st Century Learning, Multitasking and Addiction, and Learning in Virtual Worlds.

Grimmelmann, James. "Saving Facebook." Iowa Law Journal 94.4 (May 2009): 1137-1206. <http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/issues/ILR_94-4_Grimmelmann.pdf>

Growing Up Online. Jan. 2008. Frontline. PBS.org  Web.
The complete video is about 56 minutes and you may  view the entire program online or sections and updates by using the search feature box at http://www.pbs.org/video/ and entering the title. The program covers some of the negative effects of teenagers' Internet use and explores the impact of social networking and classroom learning.

Hanley, Jennifer A. "Cyberbullying." Family Online Safety Institute." 2009.

Horrigan, John. "The Mobile Difference - Tech User Types." Pew Internet & American Life Project. 25 March 2009. Web.
Also see summary chart.

Keen, Andrew. Interview. "New Book Looks at the Internet's Impact on American Life." Sept. 2007. Online Newshour | PBS. Interview.   

Lenhart, Amanda, et al. "Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults." Pew Internet & American Life Project. 3 Feb. 2010. Web.
    Download PDF file for the full report.

Madden, Mary, and Aaron Smith. "Reputation Management and Social Media." 26 May 2010.  Pew Internet. Web.

Thompson, Clive. “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy.” 5 Sept. 2008. New York Times Magazine.Web.
RTF file for printing

Internet at Work

Cerf, Vinton G. "Innovation and the Internet: the sharing of information is making us all more powerful in ways that at present we may only dimly understand." Research-Technology Management 51.1 (Jan-Feb 2008): 30(4). Expanded Academic ASAP. Web.

Fallows, Deborah. "Email at Work." 08 December 2002. Pew Internet and Life Project. Web.

Friedman, Thomas L. "Outsourcing, Schmoutsourcing! Out Is Over." The New York Times. 19 May 2006. A25. LexisNexis. Web.

Madden, Mary, and Sydney Jones. "Networked Workers." 24 Sept. 2008. Pew Internet and Life Project. Web. See full report. (PDF)

Mastrangelo, Paul M., Wendi Everton,and Jeffery A. Jolton. "Personal Use of Work Computers: Distraction versus Destruction." CyberPsychology & Behavior 9.6 (Dec. 2006): 730-741. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Online Education 

Allen, I. Elaine, and Jeff Seaman. Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009. Babson Survey Research Group. January 2010. Sloan Consortium. Web. <http://www.sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/learningondemand.pdf>

Aviles, Kitzzy, Bill Phillips, Tim Rosenblatt. "If Higher Education Listened to Me." Educause Review. 40.5 (September/October 2005). Web.

Bell, Paul D. "Predictors of College Student Achievement in Undergraduate Asynchronous Web-based Courses." Education 127.4 Summer 2007: 523-533. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Boettcher, Judith V. "Finding Their Voice." T H E Journal 35.3 (Mar. 2008): 28-30. Academic Search Premier. Web.

*El Mansour, Bassou, and Davison M. Mupinga. "Students' Positive and Negative Experiences in Hybrid and Online Classes." College Student Journal 41.1 (2007): 242-248. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web

Marshall, S. J. "No Student Is a Passive Learner." Communications of the ACM 50.1 (2007): 12-12. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Marshall's letter is responding to this article; the focus is technology and learning styles.
Adams, Dennis. "Wireless Laptops in the Classroom (and the Sesame Street Syndrome)." Communications of the ACM 49.9 (Sep. 2006): 25-27. Academic Search Premier. Web.

Picciano, Anthony, and Jeff Seaman. K–12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators. Sloan Consortium. January 2009. Web. <http://www.sloanconsortium.org/sites/default/files/k-12_online_learning_2008.pdf>
 

*Parry, Marc. "Tomorrow's College." Chronicle of Higher Education 57.11 (2010): B4-B6. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.

Blogs and News

"Guardian Unlimited Blogposts." 2012. Guardian Unlimited. Web.

Rainie, Lee. "The New News-Media Scape." Presentation.  Pew Internet and American Life Project. 17 Feb. 2009. Web.

"The Rise of Citizen Journalism." 16 Nov. 2005. Online NewsHour. Web.

Winer, Dave. "Harvard Weblogs: What makes a weblog a weblog?" 23 May 2003. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.  Web.

Internet History, Standards, Governance

Also see The Internet Society and World Wide Web Consortium

Schenker, Jennifer L. "Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet." New York Times (8 Dec. 2003): C.1. LexisNexis. Web.

Zakum, Robert Hobbes. "Hobbes' Internet Timeline: the Definitive ARPAnet and Internet History." 2012. Web.

Recommended Web Sites

American Library Association. <http://www.ala.org> See Issues and Advocacy section>Federal legislative issues for CIPA and Copyright information.

CyberSmart! Student Curriculum. Commonsense Media.org. 2012. Web

Educause Resources. 1999-2012. See links to Educause Review and Educause Quarterly.

Electronic Frontier Foundation <http://www.eff.org/>

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)  <http://epic.org/>

Family Online Safety Institute  http://fosi.org

Internet Society <http://isoc.org>

i-SAFE Inc. 1998-2009. <http://isafe.org>

*Pew Internet and American Life Project: Topics
<http://www.pewinternet.org/Topics.aspx>  

Wiredsafety.org  <http://wiredsafety.org/> An independent 501c3 (charitable) organization which operates worldwide

World Wide Web Consortium <www.w3.org>

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