In this post I must use the Universities Library Facilities to conduct a literature review for week five. This week will be the information gathering week, where i will search the internet and university's facilities and try to gather as much relevant sources of published work that will back up my research paper with valid arguments. so lets get started!
In a Google search I found a couple of websites devoted to the impact mobile phones have on our health, and a report from the Institute of Science in Society complete with references that claims that mobile phones could promote the growth of cancer.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FOI2.php
The other site was the American Cancer Society that has printed it own report into the effects of Mobile phones and their impact on our health. These may prove quite useful to me if I want to add health risks in my research paper.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp?level=0
While conducting another search this time for newspapers and their articles on the effect of mobile phones I stumbled upon a couple or relevant sources, one from the Daily Telegraph commenting on the latest applications for mobile phones, this may prove a reliable source if I want to explain what types of software one could find on their mobile phone in the next few years.
Title: Time for a reality check The best augmented reality applications The next generation of software heading our way, augmented reality, has the potential to transform our lives, says Claudine Beaumont.(Features)
Citation: Daily Telegraph (London, England) Year2009
Another valid point comes from the Archbishop Vincent Nichols who said the sites encouraged teenagers to build "transient relationships'' that left them unable to cope when their social networks collapsed. He said the internet and mobile phones were "dehumanising'' community life. This should provide me with a good point to back up one of my arguments that mobile phones are causing teenagers problems.
Title: Archbishop: Facebook a suicide risk. (News)
Citation: Sunday Telegraph (London, England) Year2009
There were some more ones I started to unearth:
One from the Times reporting on the statistics of the amount of people with mobile phones, Happy Slapping, and crime statistics which will prove very useful in my research paper.
Title: Parents happier for children to have mobile phones as health fears diminish.(News) Citation: The Times (London, England) Year2009
When I started the search for books and journals the list of valid sources started to grow there was literally thousands to search through here are just some of the viable sources I had on offer:
Computers, Phones and the internet: Domesticating information technology, by Robert Kraut et al. a journal dedicated to the effects of technology at home, with family and in the community. This journal will prove most interesting when I wish to prove that the effects of mobile phones can have a detrimental effect on parents and their children.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/anglia/docDetail.action?docID=10160630
Another Useful source is a book called; The mobile connection: the cell phone’s impact on society by Rich Lang. This book covers almost all the issues I want to cover in my research paper it will provide a most valuable source of information.
There are a lot of relevant literature publications on this topic almost too many to count.
Title: Mobile phones and children: an Australian perspective.(Report) Source: Issues in informing science & information technology education This journal gives an insight into just how many children have mobile phones in Australia which is just staggering, unbelievable in fact, while this may be a bit off the beaten track this journal does however provide extensive research data into the effects of mobile phones both optimistic and both pessimistic data has been extensively collaborated. And will no doubt provide some unbelievable statistics.
I think I will leave the source collecting for the moment as I have a lot of information to get through.
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Monday, 2 November 2009
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This is great if I wanted a list of sources, but this is not written as a literature review. Below is an example from my blog as to how I want it written:
ReplyDeleteSmith 2009 argues that students are often late to lectures due to the excesses of alcohol, however Jones 2008 states that most students cannot wake up until midday due to a natural hormonal anomaly and this is why they are tardy. He also mentions that due to this, all lectures should take place in the afternoon and cites Haden 2003 and his interesting insight into student sleep patterns to evidence this. Morgan 2008 notes that some individuals are either "early birds or night owls", and many students follow this pattern. Those people who favour early rising are very often exhausted by mid afternoon, whereas late risers can produce their best work after midnight (Wright 2009).
You need to write this as a narrative, citing the surname and date of
your source - without placing the whole reference in the text - this goes at the end of your paper in the references.