Facebookistan

This video is about the rapid growing social networking site, Facebook. Facebook allows people to meet new people, catch up with people from their past, and connect with friends. Facebook can be a great tool, but is it the safest. This video shows us how easy it is to access other peoples information. Facebook has become a not so private social networking website. Facebook requires a lot of personal information. They ask your full name, hometown, school, and workplace. This makes it easy for predators to find people. The segment where they talked to the girl who's rapist contacted her through Facebook was horrifying. It crazy to think she could actually have a conversation with him after what he did, she even felt closure. There are many other social networking sites that work in the same way, such as MySpace. There is also Twitter, which doesn't require a lot of personal information. I have also recently noticed the ads on the side of my homepage and all of the ads are pertaining to something I would like. This is where the filter bubbles come in. Facebook is starting to act like a robot, it can see when you are on or offline and see what your searching. Your privacy is gone. Facebookistan is a country that they made up that controls everything that happens. These segments all have one thing in common. It's that they show how easy it is to find people and they show how your privacy has been taken away.

In-Class Blog 11

I thought that the library ethnography assignment was very helpful. This is my second year at West Georgia and I did not know how to find or check out a library book. I also never really thought about using library books as sources. I have always just used online sources. I definitely think you should continue to assign this assignment. It wasn't a difficult assignment, but I felt like I got a lot out of it. I wish we could have spent more time on annotated bibliographies. Since it was worth 100 points I wish we could have spent more time discussing what the format should be and what all we needed to include. I have definitely used things we have learned in class in other classes. The main thing i have used is citing. I have used the worksheets we did to cite other books and articles for other classes. I have also used the things you told us about annotated bibliographies in my online class. We are also doing research papers, so I have used a lot of things I have learned in class on my research paper. I will definitely keep all of the worksheets we have done to use for other classes. I also plan to use the common rhetorical devices sheet to help analyze sources.

In class blog 10

For as book i would most likely find information on a specific subject. A book would definitely be a good source for a research paper. A book is definitely reliable. A book is helpful for my research paper because there are many books published about anorexia and the different treatment plans.

For a blog post i would probably find personal information about a specific journal, because a lot of people use a blog as a journal. This would not be a good source for a research paper, unless the research paper was about social media or something to that effect. I could use this for my research paper if i found a blog that a girl wrote about her recovery and treatment while battling anorexia.

For a scholarly journal article i would most likely find credible and peer-reviewed information, such as a medical journal. This is a great source for a research paper because of the vast majority of journal articles out there. It is really easy to find one that can relate to your topic and is also credible. I could use this for my research question if i found a medical journal about the different treatment plans of anorexia, which i have already done.

For Wikipedia i would most likely find information similar to an encyclopedia. This is not a good source for a research paper simply because it is not reliable. Anyone is able to change or alter the information to something that is completely false. I  would not use this as a source for my research paper, but i could use it to get some basis and background information for my topic. this could be a good starting point.

For a podcast i would most likely find videos or audio of a specific subject. This is not a good resource for a research paper unless the person is credible and is an expert on the subject they are discussing. I would not use this for my research paper unless it was a young women discussing her treatment plans and how it worked for her recovery.

In class activity 10/29

To find the the full text of the provided article I first went to the University website. I then clicked on the Library link that took me to the university library website. I then clicked on Galileo and Databases and searched Medical Students' Use of Facebook. That then took me to the results page where the article was number one.

Homework 10/29

After watching the video I have come to realize that annotated bibliographies are much like a works cited page. Annotated bibliographies consist of a summary citation and annotations. This can be a list of books, journals, databases, and pictures. They all must be cited correctly. The summary includes a brief statement about the source used and how it relates to the topic. . The citation should be formatted properly to exclude plagiarism. Annotations include a note made when reading a source. An annotated bibliography not only gives the writer some insight on his/her topic and sources, but also gives the reader some insight on your topic before reading your paper. An annotated bibliography must be written in APA or MLA format. I feel the reason we are required to do an annotated bibliography is not only for our research paper, but to get some practice for future classes that may require one for a research paper. Annotated bibliographies are a great tool to determine if our source is beneficial to our research paper or not.

In Class Blog Post October 24

Theses topics have to do with library research because most of these topics involve books, databases, and journals, which are all found in the library, and library research is done in the library. They also involve citations. These topics discuss what constitutes plagiarism, copyright violation, and paraphrasing. I will be able to apply the things i have learned in other classes when writing papers and doing research for a research paper or presentation. I have learned and practiced how to properly cite all kinds of sources, such as journals, databases, books, and even images. I feel i have learned many things that i had no clue was either plagiarism or a copyright violation. This is important because there are many people that would not knowingly plagiarize, but they are not educated adequately on this subject, therefore can not determine what is plagiarism and what is not. They may not know how to properly cite internally or externally. One thing i feel i still have a few questions about is copyright violation and at what point are you using too much information. I know that if a person uses a whole song that is copyright violation, but how much is too much?

Homework 10/22

Trouble for Elsevier was about workers who were mistreated and were not being paid for their work. The workers eventually boycotted, because they wanted free for taxpayers. The New England Journal is a medical journal with a lot of medical knowledge that is free to taxpayers and they are able to access this at anytime free of charge. The Changing Nature of Knowledge  talks about how when it came to knowledge things used to be censored. To me they were thinking about ways to disclose information, because there are so many resources out there besides reading things in books. This is mainly due to the rise in technology. These stories all talk about displaying items to the public. In Elsevier's case it was negative, but they wanted the public to view his work freely. In the New England Journal it was positive because the information was already visible to the public, which is a great thing. The Changing Nature of Knowledge is positive because i feel people are changing their ways of thinking about technology, which today we could not function without. These stories affect me because i am constantly looking up things and if the information was limited i would not be able to do proper research. The Change Knowledge of Nature really affects me because is discusses technology, which i am a big fan of. I feel technology is a great thing because we are able to do so much today they we haven't been able to do in the past.

Plagiarism

To put plagiarism in my own words, i would say that plagiarism is when someone uses someone elses work as their own without crediting the author. This could be in a research paper or, like we discussed in class, music videos. To me there is no excuse to to plagiarize a research paper. It takes less than five minutes to cite your source and most of the databases have the sources cited already. Plagiarism is taking someone's work as your own without crediting the author. Copyright violation is using someone's whole work, but still citing. There is a limit to how much of the work can be used. One or two quotes is not a copyright violation, as long as the quotes are cited correctly. One example of plagiarism that is not a copyright violation is when a person uses a quote from a book and the quote is not properly cited or not cited at all and used as their own work. An example of a copyright violation that is not plagiarism is when a person does a cover of a song and uses the whole song, but the person does give credit to the artist. But because there is a limit to how much of a person's work can be used they are at risk of a copyright violation.

If i am at a party and i hear some people talking about something, i might listen to them for a minute before i just jump into the conversation. I want to make sure i know what i am talking about first. For example if i heard someone talking about the television show Jersey Shore i would immediately jump into the conversation because i consider myself an expert on that topic. I would start off by saying something like , "did you see when this happened...?". I really enjoy talking about things i am interested in. If the situation were in reverse i would love for someone to jump in the conversation, especially if it were to be something that we were both interested in. I would also enjoy talking to someone with a different opinion and talk about our differences. If i thought someone was giving false information that i know one hundred percent was wrong i would definitely tell them. I would not do this out of spite, i would do this so that they are telling false information.

Based on what we read about the filter bubbles i would hope that the databases we use would be protected from this. In most cases our research questions would not be something we would normally search or look up. i would think this would be taken in consideration by the "robot." The reason i would think the databases would be protected by this is because most of them the university has to pay for the service. With this said i would think the database has taken this in consideration and has found a way around this. The two databases i serched in class today were PsycInfo and MEDLINE with full text (at EBSCOhost). I found both of these very helpful, but i found MEDLINE more helpful than PsycInfo. I found MEDLINE more helpful because the article and journal talked more on the medical side of things. A lot of the articles in PsycInfo were in different languages, so were not helpful at all. I really had to search for the ones with the best information. I have since changed my research question from the media aspect of Anorexia to the different treatment plans of the disease. I found a lot of information on this topic in MEDLINE. They not only discussed medical treatments,but also therapy options, which seems to play a big part in the healing process.

My Research Topic

My research question is about how the media influences women struggling with anorexia. So far while doing research I have found a lot of vidoe clips about this but not a lot about this subject from databases. I have found two books that i feel will be really helpful during this research project. They talk a lot about body image and what affects this has on women. I have found a lot of journals about body image and i have found that media influences this a lot, therefore young women feel the need to fit this profile. I think i still need to find a good bit more of information. The past few classes have really helped me in finding journal articles that fit my research question. A lot of them are facts and figures, but I would like to find more interviews with victims of this disease. If possible, I would also like to find some statistics about what influences women with this disease and how they feel about the role that the media plays. So far i have not had to narrow or broaden my research topic. I have been extremely fourtunate to find many good sources and articles on my research topic.

Filter Bubbles

I don't feel like filter bubbles are a good thing. I don't think a robot is capable of deciding what a persons likes or dislikes are based on your computer activity or facebook. Limiting information on a persons computer is just crazy! This has to be limiting when doing research. A person may not like their topic, but are still required to do adequate research and find up to par information. How can a robot determine this? It is not fair that this is left of to a robot! I also felt that the information in how to get around this was very helpful. They were some good tips that people with this problem could benefit from.

Things I have learned :)

I feel i have learned many different things so far in this class that may help me in future classes. The one thing that will really help me is learning how to do a good and correct citation. Although i use my Writer's Resource all the time, i now have a much better understanding on how to cite correctly and most efficiently! I also have a much better understanding on how to find all of the information that is needed to cite different sources other than just books. I also think that using APA along with MLA was also very helpful. I have found i like MLA much better! I also think that the criteria for finding a good website or source was very helpful. This is something that will help me in almost every class i take. Finding good sources can make or break a research paper! I also found that learning how to find books on the library catalog and then finding them in the library was very helpful as well. This is also something that will help me find better sources for future research papers. Overall i think this class will help not only me, but the other students out a lot in future classes. Hopefully everyone has found this class as helpful as i have!

I feel using the Ingram Library catalog is a little more difficult to use then my high schools library catalog. I feel this is more difficult for the simple fact that there are so many more books at the Ingram Library than there were at my high schools library. Although the catalog does a great job of having different ways to narrow down your serches and being able to insert keywords there are so many books that may be on the same topic, but are not necessarily what you might be looking for. One thing that suprised me was definitely the amout of books and results that are given when searching for a specific thing. I had trouble when I searched anorexia in the media. All  of my results were movies and video clips on anorexia and were not about how the media influeneced anorexia. No matter how many different ways i worded it the same things kept coming up. So I think i will find more information in articles on Galielio.

I had a lot more success using GIL- Find instead of GIL. I found that there were a lot more ways to narrow down my search on GIL-Find.

I used GIL-Find@WestGa to search for two book relating to my topic Anorexia in the media. One of the books my group was give in class i found to be very helpful for my topic. That book is Fat--A Fate Worse Than Death? : women, weight, and appearance. This book focuses on body image as well as the social aspects of gain weight and the need to be as skinny as you can be. I feel this book would be great to use for my research topic not only because of the social aspect of the book, but because the book as a whole is media.

Another book I found very helpful was Women Afraid to Eat : breaking free in today's weight obsessed world. This book also discusses the social aspects of the disease. I feel this book would be better then the other because it goes more in dept into the  media aspect of the disease. Along with the other book, this book also goes into dept about body image and the need to be skinny.

Another question that came to mind is why would someone write these books in the first place? is it supposed to help people battling this disease? is it supposed to motivate people to get in shape?

I interviewed Jessica Folds about her experience with research papers. Jessica is a senior here and West Georgia and is a Business Management major. I asked her what her favorite research paper was about and she said she hadn't done many, but her favorite was a paper about sexual harassment in the workplace. She told me that this occurs much more than people think. I also asked what types of sources she consulted during her few research papers that she had. She told me her teacher mainly wanted them to use media sources such as newspaper or magazine articles. I was surprised that she had not done many research papers through out her  college career and that they mainly were assigned group projects. 

http://www.slideshare.net/kolbeywinders/libretho1101

During this project I along with my partner looked up the book and found the book together. I also took some of the pictures and was in one of them. We both worked on the power point together.

Based on today's exercise I found that if your not careful many research questions can become too broad or too vague. Many of my research questions were too broad. This lesson really helped me understand how to write a research question.

One of my research questions was, What are some contributing factors associated with anorexia? Some things i could change about this question are to be more specific about what topic I am researching. My new research question is, How does the media influence women struggling with anorexia?

While Anorexia is a broad topic our group has narrowed this topic down to health problems, media influence, psychological issues, and economic status. We feel these four issues will make great research topics. 

Anorexia

Our group has chosen to do our research project on Anorexia. This is an issue that affects many women all over the country. This topic interests me because I would like to find out why women chose to do this? Do they honestly want to be that skinny? What affects does this have on the body long term? Short term? How does this affect the people around them?

Effects of Bullying

 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/28/md-teen-charged-with-attempted-1st-degree-murder/?intcmp=trending

 This news story discusses a Maryland father who claims his son was bullied at school and that is the reason he shot another student.

Dangers of owning aggressive Pit bulls

 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/27/florida-man-attacked-by-pit-bull-while-mowing-lawn/ 

 This news story reveals that a Florida man was attacked by a pit bull while mowing his lawn. Deputies say the attack was unprovoked.

Wildfires
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/28/investigators-falling-boulder-sparked-utah-fire/

This news story discusses one of the many causes of wildfires. The place of this wildfire is in Utah.

  

Introduction

Hi everyone! My name is Kolbey Winders and I am currently a Sophomore here at West Georgia! My major is currently undecided, but I am thinking of going into Radiation Therapy. I have one sister...we are twins and she is also in this class! I am a vet tech at Carroll County Animal Hospital and I absolutely love my job! I have two pets, a dog named Sam and a chameleon named Glitzy. I am looking forward to having a great semester!!