Please answer the following questions using Academic Search Premier. Click on Edit Page and enter the password library. Type your responses in the boxes provided. When finished, click Save.
You are researching the free speech on the Internet.
1. Do a search for free speech. Do not set any limits. How many results do you get?
2. Do a new search for "free speech." Make sure to put the term in quotes. How many results do you get this time?
3. Add Internet to your search. How many results do you get this time?
4. Look at the full record for the first article in the list. What is this article about? Is it on topic?
The article discusses the concept of the "homophobosphere," which is an environment created by antigay postings on weblogs that spread hate, produce fear, but are protected by free speech. The author examines a video posted on the popular website YouTube by Chris Crocker, a teenage performance artist who defended pop musician Britney Spears. The video became a sensation and received the second highest number of comments on the site, with many of the comments containing antigay hostility and hate speech.
5. Return to your list of results. Find a scholarly/academic article in the list. Type the title of the article and explain how you know it is scholarly. List 3 reasons.
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1. Trading Free Speech- 1. because the source is from the "index of Censorship". 2. Andrew McLaughlin because he nis a scholar. 3.
2. The Hazzards of Dissent-
3. Regulating the Internet
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6. How could you truncate one or both of your search terms? Type the truncated search term(s).
You can put and asteric behind the word Speech, and you end up with 513 results for that page.
7. If the full text of an article you want is not available in Academic Search Premier, what would you do?
Find full text in other databases
8. Type 1 or 2 synonyms or related terms for free speech and Internet. How did you come up with these terms? (Hint: Subjects, Thesaurus, brainstorming)
Free speech- Outspoken and for Internet- Web
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