Citation Tracing
I began my search from the content I discovered in the Week 11 Blog Post in order to build upon my already existing topics. In particular, I wanted to solidify quantitative data for transgender prevalence in the United States (Meerwijk, E. L., & Sevelius, J. M., 2017). Consequently, my citation trace was within the Academic Search Premier database.
- Forward Citation Trace – This study is cited 12 times within the Academic Search Premier according to metadata. This led to a few more useful articles such as Nonbinary individuals’ emotional experiences: Implications for advancing counseling psychology beyond the binary (Sinnard, M. T., Budge, S. L., & Rossman, H. K., 2022).
- Backward Citation Trace – This study cites 59 sources–many of which are other studies reporting transgender population figures. I found Source #21 particularly useful (Flores, A.R., Herman, J.L., Gates, G.J., & Brown, T.N.T., 2016).
Subject Searching
For my subject search, I similarly used an article sourced in the Week 11 Blog Post regarding transgender media representation (McLaren, J. T., Bryant, S., & Brown, B., 2021). The subject term which caught my eye was “CRITICAL discourse analysis“. Searching for this subject term yielded 1,650 results–very few of which were related to my topic of interest. As such, I added the subject term “Transgender“. Searching “CRITICAL discourse analysis AND Transgender” as subject terms only yielded four results. To expand the available resources somewhat, I instead searched “CRITICAL discourse analysis” as a subject term and “Transgender” as an all-text keyword. This yielded a modest 18 results. A good example of an eligible source from these results would be Defining diversity: a critical discourse analysis of public educational texts (Arce-Trigatti, A., & Anderson, A., 2020).
Conclusions
These practices were useful in expanding the horizon of this topic to more specific contexts. With that said, these contexts can only slowly build the overall framework I’m trying to accomplish. “Ageism in Transgender Representation in Media” might be a topic too unexplored to easily substantiate. With that said, the core of what I want to study–the relations between cisgender and transgender people in wider society–is still very much on-the-table. While I’m far from ready to abandon my original research goal, it’s worth contextualizing that goal as being within a much greater trend.
Works cited
Arce-Trigatti, A., & Anderson, A. (2020). Defining diversity: a critical discourse analysis of public educational texts. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 41(1), 3–20. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/01596306.2018.1462575
Flores, A.R., Herman, J.L., Gates, G.J., & Brown, T.N.T. (2016). How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the United States? Los Angeles, CA: The Williams Institute. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Adults-US-Aug-2016.pdf
McLaren, J. T., Bryant, S., & Brown, B. (2021). “See me! Recognize me!” An analysis of transgender media representation. Communication Quarterly, 69(2), 172–191. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/01463373.2021.1901759
Meerwijk, E. L., & Sevelius, J. M. (2017). Transgender Population Size in the United States: a Meta-Regression of Population-Based Probability Samples. American Journal of Public Health, 107(2), e1–e8. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303578
Sinnard, M. T., Budge, S. L., & Rossman, H. K. (2022). Nonbinary individuals’ emotional experiences: Implications for advancing counseling psychology beyond the binary. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 35(1), 19–42. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/09515070.2021.1940102