My search topic is finding if journalists can still act as the watchdogs of the media if they are not considered credible due to certain modern elements such as social media and advertising.
Subject Search:
Database: Communication & Mass Media Complete database from EBSCO Host.
Otto, L., Glogger, I., & Boukes, M. (2017). The softening of journalistic political communication: A comprehensive framework model of sensationalism, soft news, infotainment, and tabloidization. Communication Theory (1050-3293), 27(2), 136–155. https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12102
The subject term I used from the above source was “Yellow journalism.”
When I clicked on the subject term, The EBSCO Host server showed “DE “Yellow journalism” which brought out 23 results. However, when I only searched “Yellow journalism” under the field of subject terms 30 results turned up.
The search was useful in providing me with around 5 new sources to look into and use for my research. However, half of the sources provided were book reviews and some in another language. Looking into “Social responsibility of print media” and “Fake news, truth and trust,” will prove useful since they tie into how journalism responsibility is seen because of false information.
(All of these searches were so narrow that I had no need to add further limiters.)
Citation Trace:
Database: Sage Premier using the Journalism journal as a filter.
Papanagnou, V. (2021). Who is a good journalist? Evaluations of journalistic worth in the era of social media. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211036848
The source above referenced about 57 other sources and almost all of them seem to relate to my research topic. If it does not relate to my topic most of the other sources are covering topics of which research methods are best for their type of study. The top two sources I picked out were “‘Tweet or be sacked’: Twitter and the new elements of journalistic practice” and “A decade of research on social media and journalism: Assumptions, blind spots, and a way forward.”
The downside of this article is that Sage Premier’s Cross Reference feature showed that there were 0 sources that cited this source. But, this seemed like less of a problem when I looked further into the sources that the article referenced.
“‘Tweet or be sacked’: Twitter and the new elements of journalistic practice,” one of the top articles I picked from my original source, showed that 44 other articles cited this source. Just because there were 0 articles that referenced the original source does not mean that it was a failed citation trace since it referenced a multitude of other sources that show to be cited by others.