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Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Print.

Yardi, Sarita, and Danah Boyd. “Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization Over Time on Twitter.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 30.5 (2010): 316-327. Academic Search Complete. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

Boyd, Danah. M., Nicole B. Ellison. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

NewYorkPublicLibrary. The New York World’s Fair, 1939-40 – Treasures of the New York Public Library. Narr. NewYorkPublicLibrary. YouTube.com, 2008. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

Facebook.com. “Facebook’s Privacy Policy.” Facebook.com. Ed. Facebook.com. Facebook.com, 5 Oct. 2010. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

Sisario, Ben. “U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown.” New York Times. 26 Nov. 2010. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

Background: (Griggs, 2009; Jensen, 2006)
Exhibits: (Rheinggold, 2001)
Arguments: (Wellman, 2002)
Methods: (Wellman & Gulia, 1999)

1. What are three things about research that I learned today?

1. Web of Science: how to determine the reliability and publicity of the authors of sources.
2. Google Scholar feature–source cited–is unreliable.
3. Yochai Benkler does not have a PhD.

What is the one thing about evaluation of sources that I’m still unclear or uncertain?

Few questions I have about evaluation of sources is: Is there a number of other work citing a source making that particular source reliable? Is it that 100, 300, or 500 of other working citing a particular article makes the article substantially reliable? Is it true that the greater the number means the source more reliable?

The subject term “information technology” in the library catalog is broken down into an array of categories in alphabetical order. Categories ranging from countries (i.e. Japan, Great Britain), fields of study (i.e. Management, Philosophy), to other different subjects. Each category is also further defined with a co-category that is related to its first one.