COMM 3100: Foundations of Media Industries
Finding Articles
Recommended Databases
Media Studies Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
This database is your best bet for this assignment. It contains articles from scholarly journals in the fields of communications and media studies.
Other Databases
- SocIndex with Full Text This link opens in a new windowComprehensive and scholarly index of content related to sociology that includes some full text resources.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowFeatures thousands of full-text journals covering a broad range of academic subjects.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides the full text from a set of journals and e-books in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
Keyword Search Strategies
AND
Combine keywords with AND to narrow your search.
Muslim AND media
OR
Combine keywords with OR to broaden your search. This works well for synonyms.
Muslim OR Islam
"phrase search"
Put quotes around multi-word searches to find only documents that contain those words as a phrase.
"social media"
* (wildcard)
Use a * with the stem of a word any word beginning with the letters you entered.
religio* searches for religion, religious, religiosity, etc.
