Skip to Main Content
Stony Brook University

SOC 330: Media & Society: Home

Selected resources and research tools for SOC 330.

Welcome

Use this guide to:

  • Find articles & search research databases
  • Find books
  • Get help with your research
  • Discover citation tools

If you need help contact us!  Our contact information is on the right sidebar.

Related Research Guides

Off-Campus Access

Use your NetID and password to access library resources when off-campus.

Research Starter

SEARCH Everything

Searches research databases, journals, our catalogs, and more | HELP

Searching Tips

Searching tips to narrow or broaden results

  • Boolean operators

    • (can be in source) twitter OR facebook

    • (must be in source) social media AND activism

    • (must not be in source) media NOT television

  • Quotes: “occupy wall street”

  • Parenthesis: (twitter OR facebook) AND activism

  • Truncation: “social media” AND politic* [politic, political, politics, politically]

  • Other limiters:

    • source (scholarly, popular),

    • subject/thesaurus: genetically modified organisms -> transgenic organisms

    • date,

    • full-text,

    • document type/primary/secondary (article, review, report, interview, statistics, map, image, video)

Top Picks

Librarian

Profile Photo
Gisele Schierhorst
Contact:
Office: 631-632-7560

Fax: 631-632-7116