I have a question about sources for our research paper. Are we allowed to use and cite in press articles?

Hi! I am wanting to use JSTOR’s offline solution, which has significantly expanded this year, as my research-based info source for my information community (people experiencing incarceration), and was hoping to get some feedback to see if that sounded right. Thanks for reading!

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I’m currently working on my #sourcessurvey. Is there a major penalty for going over the word limit? I’m at 1577 words and trying to cut down, but I am finding difficulty.

Do the articles in our lit review need to be organized in the matrix in any particular order? I noticed in the examples many were in alphabetical order by author last name, but I wasn’t seeing anything about that in the instructions (or maybe I missed it?). Was considering organizing mine more in thematic groupings to help with research paper…[Read more]

It does not seem like there is a peer-reviewed article specifically about the information behavior for my community (hobby crochet). For Blog #4, should I use an article that has my community as participants and has parts that can be interpreted as information behavior, an article that is for information behavior of a similar hobby community, or…[Read more]

Hi all!

I’ve been seeing the terms “serious leisure” and “fandom” in relation to lenses and frameworks, and I feel silly for asking this, but where can I find more information on these? Are they in our resources somewhere? I combed through the lectures and readings given so far, and can’t seem to find anything on these frameworks. Help please!