Monday, May 28, 2012

Periodical indexes

My initial boolean search terms did not have any successful results. I tried the suggested search but that also came up with nothing. I revised the search term to be more specific, so I went with: Cellular telephones AND Invasion of privacy. That came out to 25 results and sounds like better terms to use.

 Scholarly journal - "Cell Phone Records for Sale" Nikki Swartz. Information Management Journal. Lenexa: Jan/Feb 2006. Vol. 40, Iss. 1; p. 14

For as little as $100, anyone can buy your cell phone records online. Law enforcement authorities said various illegal methods are used to collect the information. It is not a new practice, but it is an alarming one. Authorities say online data brokers have been selling Canadian and US phone records for at least three years and have not been hiding the fact. US Sen Charles Schumer has introduced legislation that would make selling cell phone records illegal and would create a special unit in the Federal Trade Commission to tackle the problem. However, his bill has not progressed in the Senate.

Magazine article - The Snitch in Your Pocket; Law enforcement is tracking Americans' cell phones in real time-without the benefit of a warrant. Michael Isikoff. Newsweek. New York: Mar 1, 2010. Vol. 155, Iss. 9

This article describes how law enforcement can track cell phones without a standard procedure. This is a helpful article in describing how a cell phone is more than just a personal device. The government or cell phone companies can track anyone they want to, which is bad and good.

Newspaper - Keeping an eye on everyone. Dana Milbank. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Apr 4, 2012. p. A.17.

This article talks about using a cell phone as a spying device. People can basically spy on each other with this new technology. 

Using ProQuest and the boolean search methods came up with helpful types of articles for me. I had to modify my search terms a few times to get some good results. With more practice I can get better results. These popular magazines and newspaper articles are helpful for my topic because it deals with the present.




1 comment:

  1. Hi, Tan:

    You learned a valuable lesson with your research, you have to persevere and be flexible, some times your ideas/keywords have to be changed to get to the topic you are interested in. Great work sticking with it, you knew there was information/articles on your topic, you just had to figure out what terms were being used.

    The scholarly article you selected looks good but you don't mention the clues that it is a research article, methodology in the abstract, graphs/charts, extensive bibliography, author credentials. All articles in scholarly journals don't include research results.

    Thanks for your efforts,
    Andrea

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