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Sociology: Sociology & the Media

Sources for finding the way the media presents social issues, as well as sources for evaluating media (demographics, audience, rankings, perspectives, etc.).

Books at W&M

LIBRARY CATALOG

Here are sample search strategies to use to find books, documents, etc., by searching our library catalog (see link below).

 Note:  in our "Classic Catalog," use $ for truncation and 'single quotes' for phrases

 

1.  General topic:

(social or socio$) and (media or newspaper$ or periodical$ or television or radio or internet or digital)

 

2.  Specific topic: (but also use "General topic" strategy above  if you can't find enough on your specific topic)

immigration and (media or newspaper$ or periodical$ or television or radio or internet or digital) 

 

3.  Data/demographics about a medium (e.g., subscriptions, circulation, viewership, ratings....)

(viewer$ or circulat$ or subscript$ or reader$ or rating$ or market$ or survey$ or audience$) and (media or newspaper$ or periodical$ or television or radio or blog$ or internet or digital)

 

Selected Books

Encyclopedia of Gender in Media -- edited by Mary Kosut

Books at Other Libraries

WORLDCAT

Here are sample search strategies to use to find books, documents, etc., by searching WorldCat, a database of 60,000 library catalogs (see link below).

       Note:   use * for truncation and "double quotes" for phrases

 

1.  General topic:

(social or socio*) and (media or newspaper* or periodical* or television or radio or internet or digital)

 

2.  Specific topic: (but also use "General topic" strategy if you can't find enough on your specific topic)

immigration and (media or newspaper* or periodical* or television or radio or internet or digital)

 

3.  Data/demographics about a medium (e.g., subscriptions, circulation, viewership, ratings....)

(viewer* or circulat* or subscript* or reader* or rating* or market* or survey* or audience*) and (media or newspaper* or periodical* or television or radio or blog* or nternet or digital)