Filter Bubbles

Filter bubbles aren't necessarily a bad thing but they keep you from seeing the sites on the website you are most interested in. Google is using robots to pick up on your searches in your database to see exactly what you like on the internet. Well the bad thing is, is that the robots are using nonsense junk to add to your filters as well, which means hiding the real news in the world from you. Problems that occur in the filter bubbles are when searching for an important issue, google might lead you in the opposite direction that your going in. In class we were taught to use Galileo research database instead of google. I know now before the video to use Galileo for scholarly sources and never use google. I read the top way to pop your own filter bubble and yes I did take action. I was always taught by my mother to keep my privacy on the internet low so I wouldn't receive any viruses on my computer. I already knew to clear out my history, cookies and data..etc to keep my computer up to date and running at a good pace. I also downloaded the "keep my opt-outs" trying to understand how to help my filter bubble but I don't really understand how to do so. I am going to look over once again and try to get rid of my filter bubble.

Skills Obtained through Library and Research

Through out this semester the course LIBR1101 has helped me with my research tasks ever than before. I have rarley did research papers since my freshman year only in English class and I don't remember ever seeing a higher grade than a C. I have learned how to broaden my topic and see that I can elborate more effectivley on it. I'm taking English 1102 now and I have turned in my first essay, I was very impressed with my work on the rough draft. I have improved so much from my freshman year on grammer, writing, ideas, and thesis. Also, from taking this class I have learned to better my citing ability and finding the publisher, I have always had an issue with looking for the essentials in a citation. I have found it very helpful with database sites. The database sites have helped my skill of looking up resources without taking up too much time. This class has helped my group ability skills, I have never worked in groups as effectivley as now. In our group we are all working to create a research paper, which is more than just an assignment. We have to put into a paper our own ideas so we need to work together on even our english skills to make a great grade on the assignment.

September 10th Homework

My topic consists of criminal's minds and what makes the criminal act in a violent way. I want to reflect back to the brain activity or the thrill the criminal get's when they murder/ hurt someone. In order to find these books I searched the GIL-Find Beta with the topic "Criminal Minds" and found two books that fit my search. My first book, Analyzing Criminal Minds and the second Inside the Criminal Mind. Both books share a similarity, they dig down deeper into why the criminal does the foolish acts. I chose these two books in the search because they were the only one's not checked out or via-Internet copy. Plus the pictures on the label looked very interesting! The first book lead more to realistic stories pertaining to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, also refereed to CSI crime scene show. As you can tell I don't really watch TV that much but I do know within the CSI shows and law and order the scenes are overdramatic. There is no way you can find the suspect of DNA on a crime scene within 30 minutes. Sorry, of topic but the first book wasn't helpful at all.  The second book gave me information on the criminal mind from the day they were born. I read a chapter where it says criminals either never have jobs or put on a front at work to commit crime underneath the employers nose. Also, in school a criminal child rejects school at a young age, seeing the school as a play ground for crime. The child will find ways to end up in trouble at every given time they spend there. I like that my second choice of a source shows reality played in criminal minds. The GIL-Find Beta came in good work finding the book I needed!

Class Blog Post Sept 12

In Highschool when I used the library it was looking up sources for papers, so when I'd look up a book I would use a website to find a book pertaining to my topic. Which is very similar to the university's book catalogue when searching for a book. The difference between my HighSchool and the University is how broad the university's selection is I came from a small hometown so our library wasn't as useful as the Universities'. Also my high school used decimals to look up books, not a call number with letters. Which made my search even more irritating to find my book. My library ethnography helped my search ten times more, I never knew how to look up a university book before then. I havent been able to reach my sources yet that im not in the States but when I return I will be able to find my books with ease! 

I found the GIL-Find is easier to use than just the regular GIL. The difference is GIL-Find makes keywords and phrase searching easier and broadens out the source. Also, you can login and mark favorites, add comments, and sign up to be emailed when updates are available. What blows the classic GIL out of the water is when your grabbing a call number the call number will be texted to your phone and its location. I must say the GIL-Find is pretty legit! 

Library Ethnography

My Library Ethnography assignment with my partner with Ashlynn Deese!

http://www.slideshare.net/asdsoccer/library-ethnog-raphy-assignment-91012

Interview Assignment

For this assignment, I chose to interview a local student who is an upper level junior about her choices in her research papers. Kristin Baldridge is a current University of West Georgia student and she is one of the two tutors for Alpha Xi Delta's study group. She currently holds the position as academic chair where she oversees and helps girls throughout the chapter with their schoolwork. She is a double major in special education and speech pathology with a minor in psychology. Her previous research papers were based on Children Psychology, How Obesity effects children in the United States, Sexuality of Children and Young adults, and even did research on Teen Pregnancy in the United States. Her sources were old school; she chose to use the library for majority of her research. She used books that had useful information and statistics to help her with writing her papers. Kristin also looked to her professor's and other educatepersonals on the campus that have also done research on the same subject and used their research to conduct her papers. Other materials she used were Newspaper articles and sometimes magazines. Her sources helped her achieve high grades on her research papers and also helped her inform others with useful information. 

How will I refine my research question?

I will  broaden out my research question to be able to elaborate more on my topic. Without a good research question a research paper will not be a success. My topic is over a psychopath named Edward Gein. I want to dig down deeper as to what made Edward do the things he did..What makes people turn into a serial murderers? Most psychopaths start out as normal people and sometimes charming to their surroundings. Yet underneath the front they are self-centered and dishonest. Edward Gein was abused as a child by his mother and he never had his father around. Was it a genetics that encountered Edward's monsterous actions or did his mind set turn him into a psychopath? In a study 30-38% of psychopaths show abnormal brain wave patterns. Personally, I think each psychopath has a tragic event in their live which mentally screwes up their thinking/learning ability. Edward Gein learned only from the social outside world by horrific comics, as he already had horrific events at home. The way his mother treated him he thought was normal in the outside world, which was abusing others. What was different about edward he took it father than just huting others, he killed and manslaughtered innocent people. Edward was mentally messed up in the head from how his mother treated him.