Sunday, October 7, 2012

Unit 3, Post #1, GVRL subject search


On October 7, 2012, I used the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) search feature for the general topic of “privacy”. I found two interesting articles (the first article yielded only about 13 keywords of interest so I skimmed a second, related article from the choice to “narrow down” by selection with a subcategory. This produced the following keywords related to my subject: internet, technology, ethics, constitutional privacy, decisional privacy, tort privacy, informational privacy, nanotechnology, communication, spyware, bio-metrical data, authentication, data protection, transaction-generated information, panoptic environment, hackers, internet, firewall, network security, cyber-criminals  plagiarism, viruses, hypertext, and GPS. The search process was easy and the exercises performed on the IRIS website were helpful. From the “Research Notes” section, I used their suggestions for capturing information to use in this blog. I also captured the citation information with my Zotero software, another recommendation from the IRIS tutorials. I will refer back to these two, general subject encyclopedias, and their sources should I perform more research on this subject. This initial process only took about an hour.

Source article #1
Van Den Hoven, Jeroen. "Privacy." Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 3. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 1490-1492. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 7 Oct. 2012.

Source article #2
Johnson, Deborah G. "Computer Ethics”. Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 1. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 392-398. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 7 Oct. 2012.

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