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Google Scholar

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I used Google scholar search to find this “Conceptions in the Code: What ‘the Copyright Wars’ Tell Us About Creativity, Social Change and Normative Conflicts in the Digital Society“ by Stefan Larsson.  However this scholarly journal didn’t pop up at first by term copyrights creativity. I had to change search setting to year 2012 to 2013. Most scholarly articles found by Google scholar were any title that included my search term. And some journals had my search term, but were misleading. And that was hard to decide until you skim through it. I had same problems you would get from regular internet search, however you can pretty much know that any article shown by Google scholar search is trust worthy.

Search and you shall find! 10/28

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Although you can find a lot more pertinent information when using search options catered to scholarly sources, it can sometimes be a little harder. One of the resources that I found very useful was Academic Search Complete. using this database there are various search options and come in handy. There are different search modes and expanders such as finding phrases, all search terms etc. There are also options to search for various document and publication types. One of the best things you can do after you find a long article is to scan through the article. Another option is to do a Find within the documents looking for keywords and reading around them.

Scholarly reasearch

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Though I do appreciate the simplicity of using Google, it is difficult to find something that is relevant to my research topic which is why I am glad Professor Leonard introduced us to Google Scholar. That is one application that helps me narrow down articles that are actually relevant and useful towards my research paper. Trying to just search through Google with the word ‘plagiarism’ does not actually find anything that I can write 5-8 pages worth of information regarding it but it just defines the word plagiarism. Just using Google was not able to provide me with any scholarly articles that I could use for my research paper. But using Google Scholar helped me find relevant information in milliseconds. After reading, ‘Apple’s’ blog post, I was tempted to try out ERIC and to my surprise I found it pretty good but I actually prefer Google Scholar because of its simplicity.

Hierarchies

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What would sentences be without words?
Sentences makes finding out and understanding the concept and meaning of a word easy and brings out the sense in the word. Badke states that “ keywords are flat. Keyword search engines scan across the broad surface of databases looking for matches”. This situation has happened to all of us where searching for a keyword turns into an endless pit of irrelevant links that has nothing to do with what your initially are looking for.
Hierarchies makes researching so much easier. Combining words and using phrases to help narrow down your search.

HW 10/7/13

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Basically this article “Opening access to knowledge” discuss a very popular problem today. Why should students pay for educational materials that are needed for the class or some project. Sometimes student pay that money for nothing. Author does not understand ,why student should pay twice for material that was written mostly by university professors for student education. One of those companies is JSTOR, they provide educational materials that suppose to be free ,for money. JSTOR has provided an important service to academic and other research communities by scanning back issues of journals and offering subscriptions to research institutions,but this storehouse of knowledge is not as openly available as Swartz apparently thought it should be. He downloaded 4 million articles from the JSTORE in only one purpose ,to show to the government and rest of the country ,that educational material must be free for students.Federal prosecutors decided to charge him with 13 felony offenses,which lead him to commit a suicide.

HW 09/25/13

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What is copyright? A lot of us heard this word many times , but less of us know ,what it really means.Basically every original work of author has a copyrights, same at the web.I think every teacher or professor in the college has told us ,that we cant use information or works of other people from the web ,its illegal and against the law, in some private colleges people were kicked out because of copyright violence.We can use digital copies ,but cant use other people writings. We can use copyright ,but only under doctrine of fair copyright use.Even some commercial products have special label ,where is written, that their product is only for educational or private use.Educators can use copyrighted material ,only if its relevant to their topic and they should provide protection against third-party access and download.And finally,students can use copyrighted material only if they need to make some presentation or its needed in educational purpose,they can use different videos ,music to develop and discuss their topic, But they cant never copy and paste some authors ideas in their work,its illegal.

The Struggles

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Research is often tedious, as it refreshing. Some difficulties that I found as I work was obtaining various court cases and documents (primary sources). When the media reports on Copyright Infringement, often, names are left anonymous and sentencing is also left in the dark. Thus, in order to successfully correlate infringement punishment and morality, obtaining court documents is a necessity. It is painstaking but its almost completed.

A strategy that I found exceptionally useful is the use of narrowing search parameters. Using “AND” frequently in search engines and databases has garnered better results than simply searching for a broad topic.

Down the road

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THe most difficult part of this research proposal draft was actually trying to figure out what topic to choose. Trying to narrow the the topic i hit a wall. Its like writing a paper for my sociology paper, i chose crime but the number of categories that fell under crime made it difficult to choose. Even though my topic is on privacy and “terms and agreements” im still not sure is i want to head down this road. Maybe privacy and the government, or plagiarism. I still have to dig deeper into my topic to see if its plausible to do. Wonder in the end will my research topic  the same when this is all said and done?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research?

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In our current day and age, we can receive so much information on anything we seek to research. So much information that can overwhelm us. To take advantage of all the information we can search, we have to to broaden our writing to something that becomes informative and to a manageable size. With the tips that Badke gives, we can harness what we should put into our research that is informative but not in the form factor of a full length book. With these tips, I’ve learned to compress large sums of information that doesn’t overwhelm me, or the reader. With this, we are able to show how that compression doesn’t have to be a lack of information.

My Research Path

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The topic i choose is very broad and it can be narrowed down to different subtopics. I don’t expect  many difficulties in the continuation of my research. What concerns me as of now is how to narrow down my topic and which path to choose. I expect to find more articles about my topic as well as media coverage. Putting together all of my research will be rather challenging and how to express all that information into a 6-8 page paper. In my opinion my topic would cover more than the required pages but my objective is to find many opinions on the topic as well as many articles to try to compare them to answer my research question in full detail.