WEB 1 (.com)
Search Engine: Google Advance
Search Strategy: youth OR adolescents AND Internet AND addiction.com
Citation: Smahel.David, and Subrahmanyam.Kaveri, "Digital Youth" Springer Science+Business Media, New York, NY 2011
http://www.springer.com
Summary:
This seems to follow all ASPECT, being very credible information. This is a E-book and a full text is available on the web for viewing. This E-book offers a full descriptions of authors including email address, and it also provided a in depth review of the book. There is also cited information, and references. This book "focuses on the psychological effects of today's online media". This seems to be right on with my topic, they also focuses on other topics involving youth and the Internet that could be tied in with with my topic. The Springer site seems to also offer a lot of info on other subjects online which you are able to access Abstract, Full Text, or PDF.
WEB 2 (.gov)
Search Engine: Google Advance
Search Strategy: (youth or adolescents) AND Internet AND addiction site:.gov
Citation: Shek. Daniel, and Yu. Lu, "Internet Addiction Phenomenon in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong" ScientificWorldJournal. 2012 June 18. Date Accessed, July 30th,2012. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3385635/
Summary:
This Source I feel is credible it is a up to date journal on the government website. The article gives information on the author, it cites pages from references with links. The article also gives clear statistics on the study, plus results of the study. The article offers Abstract, and PDF formats. I feel this article could be useful with my topic since it is a study, and results are made clear.
WEB 3 (edu.)
Search Engine: Google Advance
Search Strategy: (youth or adolescents) AND Internet AND addiction
Citation: Griffiths. Mark D, and Kuss. Daria J. "Excessive online social networking: Can adolescents become addicted to facebook?" Vol.29 No. 4, 2011. Date Accessed, July 30th,2012.
http://nottinghamtrent.academia.edu/MarkGriffiths/Papers/928007/Kuss_D.J._and_Griffiths_M.D._2011_._Excessive_online_social_networking_Can_adolescents_become_addicted_to_Facebook_Education_
Summary:
This site seems to be credible, due to the fact it gives information on both authors and it is linked to SHEU that states it is nationally-recognised, since 1977. This site is part of the education and health journal. The references used for this article a within the last two years, and feel could be work able with my topic. Both authors are possibly well knowledgeable within the subject with one being a doctoral researcher in the field of online addictions and the other a professor of gambling studies. Since this site is located on a edu web page I see a credibility link there.
WEB 4 (.org)
Search Engine: Google Advance
Search Strategy: youth or adolescents AND Internet AND addiction
Citation: (2011) Microstructure Abnormalities in Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder. PLoS ONE 6(6):e20708. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020708 Date Accessed July 30th, 2012.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020708
Summary:
This site seems credible enough, the article is only a year old with a lot of info, and references. One thing about this article it might be a little harder to read since there are a lot of scientific data that is being explained. As like above authors are documented and emails are provided. This site the article is on is a peer-reviewed, open access journal.
Summary of Journal 9:
When searching for my topic on these four domains I found that at least the .com, edu, and .gov had some of the same articles. One thing that I noticed on the .com and .org was that there was a lot of advertising for rehabs. When I clicked on a site that looked like it would of been a very credible article just by the heading what I initially found was that the site was misleading to a smaller less credible site with a more of a help line or brief descriptions of my topic. The .com domain and the .org seemed to be the hardest to find credible sites and were the two that I spent most of my time browsing through especially .com. When I started my search with .gov, and .edu I found that I had more options for credible sources, and less misleading sites. I feel that .edu and .gov would be the best domains for my topic.
Hi, Cynthia:
ReplyDeleteThank you for your excellent report. You found highly credible and useful articles using all the domains but I would imagine it was easier in .gov and .edu It makes sense that there would be more academic and objective information on these two domain but they still need to be evaluated.
Cheers,
Andrea