Monday, February 27, 2012
For Tuesday, February 28: Sorting Through Public Archives (Box 31)
For this activity you'll need to find a public archive, where you can view public and private records, historical documents, and/or artifacts. If you don't have time to access a site in person, try one of the online archives mentioned in Chapter Seven in FieldWorking, or do an online search using key terms about your topic plus "online archive." Or try one of these sites: The National Archives, Indiana State Archives, or the Ball State Archives and Special Interest Collections.
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On many of the sites I looked at I could not find anything on gay psychology. I did find some info on gay rights, though that is not my specific topic.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2004/nr04-50.html
This was a press release in which the United States Civil Service Commission questioned President Johnson about homosexual affairs. The FBI found this imperative to know. It really had nothing to do with my topic but that is the only article I could find relating to homosexuals. I am not really sure how to use many of the other sites, including Indiana State Archives because everything I searched resulted with no articles. I have never used this database before.
I also found this video on youtube (is that an archive?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z50T6cKI2lo
It was helpful in explaining about how harassment towards one's sexuality can seriously affect someone's brain and mental state of being. It can cause a feeling of insanity and to harass and embarrass someone due to their sexuality can only result in negativity. I could easily use this source for my research if need be.
I found a really good site. It was the American Psychological Archives. Sounded perfet for the paper i am writing. It's easy to navigate and have tons of material. They have magazines, newspapers as well as the Journals. Many of the articles are right there to read online. They also have a link to more APA websites, which could come in handy. http://www.apa.org/topics/index.aspx
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, there aren't a lot of online archives about blogging. The funny thing is that I found a lot of blogs ABOUT other archives. BSU's archive collection for example:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bsuarchives.blogspot.com/
And information about blog archives:
http://weblogs.about.com/od/partsofablog/qt/Overview-Of-Blog-Archives.htm
^These are basically a collection of all your past blogs and it is an easy tool to let readers find your older posts faster.
I think my topic is so new that there is no official "archive" for it. Or the field itself is just archiving. I think the latter of the two is a more plausible realization.
Though there are many online archives dealing with historic preservation in cities like Seattle and Boston, I found it hard to find an archive dealing specifically with the history behind old mansions. What I was able to dig up was a book on the online archive collection of the New York Public Library, called "The historic mansions and buildings of Philadelphia : with some notice of their owners and occupants," which deals with buildings that can be found near where my family's old mansion used to be. I think this would be a good source of information because it not only deals with my specific topic, but gives information on houses that were built before my family's was, giving my research more depth. It will be interesting to compare the buildings in the south east portion of PA that were built years apart to see what kind of differences arise.
ReplyDeleteI did a quick search on "dorm life online archives" and a few other keywords here and there and found several things, surprisingly several blogs about dorm life which could prove helpful from a point-of-view stand point for added variety. But the ones i have chosen here were helpful, too.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ashevilleschool.org/students/dormlife.aspx
this page was a link with information about dorms and what it is like living in them which is exactly my position for my paper. It describes the multiple purposes and experiences one may find living in a dormitory.
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/newsblog/general/historic-images-of-ohio-university-dorm-life
this page was more history oriented, which was cool because it was how dorms used to be - a quick look into the historical archives of ohio university. Things like this could prove useful if i want to expand more on the relevance of dorm life and the progression or history of them.
http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/PostDemNews&CISOPTR=931&CISOBOX=1&REC=1#metajump
ReplyDeleteIt was surprisingly difficult to find a archive about cults. I found a newspaper article titled, "Slaughter of the Innocence" from the Muncie Post Democrat from 1921, that looked promising, but it was very difficult to read.
I used the National Archives but the information that is relevant to my paper didn’t seem to be in the results of the search. I also do not like how the search results are portrayed. There is not a lot of information given. You actually have to click on the link and read the whole text, rather than having a summary of some sort. I had no idea what some of the information meant. Maybe the information given by the archives are useful to somebody but not to me.
ReplyDeleteI found a website that has a ton of data and other things to use with information on substance abuse. They have surveys of drug abuse treatment and tools to analyze data online.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/SAMHDA/
After a few quick searches I could not find any resources that had and historical or reported data on duck hunting technology. I did however, find some interesting records on bird banding data that catalogs all the way back to the 70's and 80's. This information is not only very interesting but is important for waterfowl biologists in researching migrational patterns and harvest rates.
ReplyDeleteI found a great archive with childhood obesity. It had many useful articles to use. The articles are very recent and up to date. That should help by giving recent information about the problem. I found another archive, but this was the best archive out of the two.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=125943404
I found a lot of good useful information about the history, technique, and development of Blues at this cite. I've narrowed my information using this and it allows me to see whats out there.
ReplyDeletehttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2000&jid=PMU&volumeId=26&issueId=01&iid=637328
looking all over these websites i was unable to find an archive about internet addiction. Every search i made it came up with results for internet or addiction not both of them together.
ReplyDeleteAfter doing some searches I haven't really been able to find any useful information. When I typed in archives of ALS it came up with the ALS Associations News Archive, so going back I can find some information about studies being done, risks, or changes in information. This information most likely won't be any help because the information keeps changing, but maybe bits and pieces might help.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alsa.org/news/archive/index.jsp?page=9
I used the National Archives. There were many different articles about "the American Dream." As I scrolled through the different articles there many different types of "American Dreams." I had a hard time narrowing it down to my specific topic of "The American Dream".
ReplyDeleteAlthough this site wasn't much help, this was about the closest I could find to anything about gender identity and transsexuality. Surprisingly, there aren't many documents that talk about the socialization of gender.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/redline/overview.php
After using the National Archives there were a few articles about PTSD. I am planning on using some of them for my paper. However, there not many articles on military post traumatic stress disorder so I do not believe I will use a lot of information from here.
ReplyDeleteI found some good information on the National Archives cite that I might use in my paper. There were a lot of different articles and it has information that is valid for my paper that I could use.
ReplyDeleteAlthough searches of the national and state archives resulted in virtually nothing of any use, UCLA has an extensive ethnomusicological archive. I found several good articles that might be of use in my paper, and there were many audio and video recordings that I could reference.
ReplyDeleteI found an article in the National Archives about technology and a group of people that will sit down and discuss where technology relating to social media and communication is going. They discussed the impact of social media and communication on society and how it can change ultimately for the better. The people in the board asked themselves what was wrong with social communication now and how it can be fixed. This website will help me with finding information about technology and how it progresses.
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