Research Guides: PPLE 210-01 Contemporary Issues & Zines: Starting Point

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Scandal in a Digital Age by Hinda Mandell and Gina Masullo Chen (Editors)
Call Number: Hatfield Library -- 2nd Floor Stacks ; P96.S29 S23 2016

ISBN: 1137597739

Publication Date: 2016

"Explores the way today's interconnected and digitized world--marked by social media, over-sharing, and blurred lines between public and private spheres--shapes the nature and fallout of scandal in a frenzied media environment."
Drawn to Extremes : the use and abuse of editorial cartoon by Chris Lamb
Call Number: Hatfield Library - 2nd Floor Stacks ; E183 .L36 2004

ISBN: 0231130678

Publication Date: 2006

"Unrestricted by journalistic standards of objectivity, editorial cartoonists wield ire and irony to reveal the naked truths about presidents, business leaders, and other public figures. Indeed, since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have both made an important contribution to and offered a critical commentary on our society." "This book demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the courtroom to the newsroom.
Visual Political Communication by Anastasia Veneti; Daniel Jackson; and Darren G. Lilleker (Editors)
Call Number: Hatfield Library -- 2nd Floor Stacks ; JA85 .V575 2019

ISBN: 9783030187286

Publication Date: 2019

"Offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication."
Music Is Power by Brad Schreiber
Call Number: E-Book

ISBN: 1978808151

Publication Date: 2019

"Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction and so many other crucial issues. Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA"
An Interview with William Proxmire : basic research has a place, says the man with the Golden Fleece by Robin Marantz Henig (interviewer)
Call Number: Article in "BioScience" from JSTOR

Publication Date: March 1980 (Vol. 30 Issue 3, p149-152)

"An interview with William Proxmire, sponsor of the Golden Fleece Award and chairman of the U.S. Senate appropriations subcommittee on independent agencies. Speaking about the negative image of the awards, he says that criticism has been almost entirely in the social science area and not in the natural science area. He agrees that the federal obligations for basic research has grown. He believes that the fundamental purpose of a university should be teaching."
Golden Fleece Awards, 1975-1987 by William Proxmire (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin serving 1957 - 1989)
Call Number: Online Archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society

Publication Date: 1975 through 1987

"In March 1975, Wisconsin Sen. William Proxmire sent out his first press release identifying wasteful government spending. He called these monthly bulletins "Golden Fleece Awards" and they became a popular feature of his Senate tenure. Given here are digital copies of the Golden Fleece press releases, 1975-1987, from Sen. Proxmire's papers. In this digital version, each year opens with his summary of the 12 awards. A handful of the monthly press releases are missing and none have survived from 1984, which contains only the annual summary. The whole series is preceded by a 12-page list of all 159 awards compiled by WHS staff in 2010, and two undated compilations compiled by Sen. Proxmire's office."

Esquire Magazine's Annual "Dubious Achievement Awards"
For many years, Esquire has published its annual Dubious Achievement Awards, lampooning events of the preceding year. As a running gag, the annual article almost always displayed an old photo of Richard Nixon laughing, with the caption, "Why is this man laughing?" However, the February 2006 "Dubious Achievement Awards" used the caption under a photo of W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official revealed in 2005 to be "Deep Throat", the source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to uncover the Watergate scandal. The magazine discontinued the Nixon photo in February 2007, referring to a poll stating that George W. Bush had surpassed Nixon as the "worst president ever". "Dubious Achievement Awards" were discontinued in 2008, according to an editor's note in the January 2008 issue, considering that the overabundance of imitators had made the feature superfluous however, after a nine-year hiatus, the feature was revived in the January 2017 issue with a skewering of 2016 events. (text from WIKIPEDIA)

What is Peer-Review?

Peer-review is an evaluation process in which qualified individuals within specialized field of study reviews literature before it becomes published in academic journals. This process helps keep standards held by the profession, improves the quality of work being published, and provides credibility & reliability to published works & authors publishing the work. The 3-minute video below describes and discusses the importance of peer-review and its process.

(NCSU video, 3:15 min.)

How to Limit to Peer-Review Journals

Many databases offer a quick way limit your results to peer review literature. Databases, such as Academic Search Premier, have a box to check for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Below is a screenshot of a database that has a check-box to limit results only to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles.

PPLE 210-01 Contemporary Issues & Zines: Starting Point

Composite of photos taken January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol in Washington DC available from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's public files

Links to some interesting resources:

What is Peer-Review?

How to Limit to Peer-Review Journals

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