Ethnic and Racial Images in the Media

2005-05-11T11:52:00.000-07:00

Stacey, Tori and Rob...

2005-03-28T22:06:00.000-08:00

Rob

Comparison of Visual Search Engines/ Open Directory vs. Google

2005-03-15T18:05:00.001-08:00

After checking out all the innovative types of web pages I am fairly intrigued in the possibilities internet database searching has. When you think about it our structure of search engine is very primitive. I though out of all the search engines that http://news.stamen.com was a very good web site to gain general knowledge because you can scroll across the color chart and find an infant number of names and topics on which to read. However, there were no strict distinctions or guidelines to the chart. The visual thesaurus was also very useful and visually stimulating. Kartoo was probably the easiest to understand at first because the visual layout is pretty straightforward yet at the same time represented very well visually. The Touchgraph Google Search was by far the most visually intense but it was also the most complicated to use. I like the news stamen site the best because it offered unlimited resources on unlimited topics all displayed in a visually engaging way. I think I liked Mooter the least because it was most like the standard search engine.

The open Directory is a very useful idea, however it has troubles all its own. Google is far easier to find effective web pages for what you are searching for because you can search for information directly related to your topic where in the Open Directory it is not as guaranteed. However, the open Directory offered many alternative web sites that perhaps you would not be prone to search had you used Google.

Comparison of Visual Search

2005-03-15T18:05:00.000-08:00

visulization searching, google, and open directory comparissons

2005-03-15T12:00:00.000-08:00

What I Liked Best...

The best one was probably the straight forward and easy to use Mooter.com. I typed in a search (coldplay) and got a list of categories like BAND, or LYRICS, or POSTERS, etc. And all I had to do was search through those, and get a whole list of sites directly related to my precise search. No sorting through piles of Google pages. They were categorized and that makes me happy.

What I Liked Least...

Anything BUT Mooter.com because they just seemed like they were flashy designs that were good for nothing but giving my synonyms and alternate searching terms, which, while that is a plus, doesn't give websites to click on quick and easy like. They just seem like tools where graphic designers and librarians show off. And new.stamen seemed to me to be a popularity contest, which is interesting but doesn't give solid information. just data.

Google vs. Open directory...

Google is, as always, fast and easy to use. I typed in the band Coldplay for google and got the typical results (ie. the bands official home page, amazon.com's listings of the band, a few major fansites, and the other music publications of the band's work like interviews, reviews, pictures, etc). Open Directory, on the other hand, separated my results into categories like: Arts, Music, Shopping, etc

The results were organized, easier to sort through, but for some reason, in different languages. For a more organized search on a topic that a user might not know lots about, Open directory would be the way to go. Butfor something like Coldplay, which I'm pretty well versed on, I like google because it's fast, easy, and i can explore and pick through a lot of sites in a pretty efficient manner.

Amy Orfanakos

2005-03-14T18:45:00.000-08:00

Hi, my name is Amy and I am 19 years old and in my first year at Western. I am originally from Richmondhill, On where i live with my parents, my older brother who goes to school in Guelph and my dog Kelsey. I live in Saugeen and eventhough it was my last choice, I LOVE IT...

Visualization Tools and Open Directory vs. Google

2005-03-09T18:32:00.000-08:00

1) The visualization tool I liked the best was the site http://kartoo.com. The search results were broken down into clusters that linked to each other in different ways. This allows the searcher to pick and choose from the visual concept map which sites are relevant. There is also a synopsis that appears to the left of the screen when choosing different combinations, therefore the searching process is made faster and more efficient. There are also suggested words that can be used to make the search more specific. This site is visually stimulating, which makes conducting an effective search easier. I liked this site because the pages retrieved were useful and because the links between the ideas helped me to clarify the topic of my search.

The visualization tool I liked the least was the site http://news.stamen.com. Although I think this is an interesting idea for a news search engine, the visuals on the opening page were much too jumbled and convoluted. There is a lack of organization as the coloured blocks that the searcher can click on for information on different people and topics made the site difficult to orientate. I found that this opening page hindered my ability to use the site to its full potential as I didn't really understand how it worked. This site was unorganized and the visual aspect was frustrating as too many possible examples are provided on the first page, which only discourages the searcher.

2) The advantages of using the Open Directory search engine are numerous. First of all, the Open Directory is more organized and provides specific categories, sub-categories, and languages in which to conduct searches. This allows for more relevant matches. Also, once you have entered your search there are numerous suggested categories that can be linked to in order to guide your search. However, an advantage of using Google instead of the Open Directory is that the advanced search option is offered, which seems to narrow the search more efficiently than the categories provided on the Open Directory. It is also important to take into account the topic of research. For instance, if searching for broad information on a favourite television show, Google would be the better choice. However, if you have a focused topic for an essay you are researching, the Open Directory may be more beneficial as you will know which category to search within. Therefore, when conducting certain searches the Open Directory will suggest that you use Google. In conclusion, both search engines are useful for different types of searches. The Open Directory is beneficial for searches involving certain categories and broader topics whereas Google searches are helpful in retrieving specific word searches.

Open Directory vs. Google

2005-03-08T16:12:00.000-08:00

The Open Directory searching tool is very useful when examining specifics and potential web pages to be used in researching. The overall interface for both search engines are extremely simple and user friendly. I prefer Google because you can search direct information and not just web pages as in the Open directory. In the directory searching requires a little more patience than in Google but in many cases patience yields results. The Google searching tool can be used in all instaces for research and has many more advanced features then that of the Open Directory. When searching through categories much of the web pages were somewhat underground and tended to steer clear of the mainstream. For example searching for golf putters none of the big name golf makers web pages popped up and the ones that were exhibited were no name un advertised companies. Personally I find it much easier to use Google simply for the time factor and relevance but the idea of having a fully edited Directory of potentially helpful web pages recommended by others is a great idea and concept which I beleive can be pushed futher by the capability of the world wide web.

Comparison of Visual Search Engines

2005-03-08T14:37:00.000-08:00

The Open Directory vs. Google

2005-03-08T13:16:00.000-08:00

The Open Directory vs. Google

As far as results were concerned, both Google and The Open Directory seem to return similar amounts. The Google results have more returned results that are directly related to the topic, but through using the directory to specific topics and subtopics, The Open Directory provides many specifically related results. Although not all these results that are found in the directory of The Open Directory are specifically related to the originally searched topic, many of the websites themselves are full of other useful content. I also found Google to be much more comprehensive with keyword searches. The Open directory returned no results for “ethnicity media” and suggested searching on Google. Therefore, for conducting simple keyword searches I find Google to be much easier, but with using directories to search, the Open Directory provides a more effective list of topics and subtopics.

Web Visual navigation tools

2005-03-08T13:14:00.000-08:00

Visualization Tool sites

The visualization tool that I liked the most was the site http://news.stamen.com. It was very easy and fun to use. It is an easy way to become up to date with current events as people in the news are directly linked with online news stories related to them. It is very useful because it provides a large list of results specifically relating to a person. People often recognize news stories by the names of people, businesses, etc. that are involved and not necessarily the exact content of the stories, making it an easy tool to use for searching current events. The fun aspect is the colour coding that determines who is a winner and a loser in the news recently. It makes it seem like a tabloid, but the difference is that all the stories are true. The colour coding is also very easy to read and recognize, as opposed to some of the visual representations of the other visualization tools sites.

The site which I liked the least was http://visualthesaurus.com. I found this site to be of very limited use. When searching Media Theory, I was provided with other search terms that had for the most part nothing to do with media theory. The site was also very bland and unappealing visually. Perhaps this site would be useful for somebody who would like to start searching for an extremely general topic. However, in university studies, this is very rarely the case.

Beyond search engines lab for tuesday march 8th, 3:00pm

2005-03-08T13:10:00.000-08:00

2. New visual tools
a. Of the new visual tools used today the one i liked the best was Kartoo. i liked it because it uses a concept map for words searched, some results seemed pointless but others seemed useful. connected links in the concept map together if the shared common themes. there was also a list of related topics at the side to assist in further searching . could be confusing to make the connections between ideas on the concept map. Still did offer up lots of good initail information as well as links to site that could provide usefull info. This one is more visually apealing using cartoons and other animations to try to grab your attention.

b. the visual tool that i liked the least was TouchGraph Google Browser. I did not like this because it work right now. I will try again later to see if it works, how easy it is to use and the caliber of results offered. The loading never finished after correct entry feilds were submitted. this leads me to believe that this tool is unreliable.

3. Using the Open Directory Project
Advantages:
Provides you with specified categories(google does not)
Gives good results (Better then that of Google)
The results are ordered in terms of what you searched for (google only counts the number of times characters are used, content is irrelavent)
More search results are displayed per page so load time is decreased

Disadvantages
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Still contains links to irrelavent information(not as many as google)
Gives irrelavent categories(at leaste it gives categories

this blog was posted by Spencer Vermue

lab:tuesday March 8, #3 The open Directory

2005-03-08T13:09:00.000-08:00

Disadvantage it has compared to Google - it frequently says that it's on a heavy load.
Its advanced option is not as diverse as Google

Advantage it has over Google - I could narrow the sites into Kids sites or Teens sites

by Ho-Yul Lee

Open Directory vs. Google

2005-03-08T13:08:00.000-08:00

When exploring Open Directory I found it to be both advantageous and disadvantageous in comparison to a Google search. For starters, the first attempt of searching on Open Directory was denied because it was “temporarily unavailable”. I retyped the search and thankfully, it worked this time. After looking at the different sites that it provided me I found that a lot of them did not have to do with what I was looking for (there were a lot of sites on actual races [ex. Running] rather than the race I had in mind. So, I decided to search ethnicity and media instead, but again, the site was temporarily unavailable. This made me a little frustrated and felt that this consumed too much time. The writing seemed smaller to me than Google. The one thing I liked about Open Directory was that it did not provide thousands of sites, but only the ones that seemed to be of my best interest. Also, Open Directory allows searches in several languages; the option of changing the language is very easy and noticeable. All in all, I still prefer Google (despite the thousands of useless sites it provides) but this may just be my bias kicking in.

New Visualization Tools

2005-03-08T13:05:00.000-08:00

My favourite search engine was Touchgraph Google browser. The website was organized and easy to use. Once you searched something, Touchgraph would open up a spider web of topics which have to do with your requested search. This allows for unlimited searching opportunities and learning about all areas of a search that you had no initially requested the website to find. All of the various topics Touchgraph found were useful and applicable to the requested search and it made it easy to find what exactly you were looking for and created new ideas of what you wanted to find. As well, once you select one of the many topics, you may click info which will provide with a summary, a snippet, a website and a Google directory on the requested search for further searching.

My least favourite search engine was kartoo.com. This is because when I requested “race in the media”, it completely disregarded the four words I had requested and only found topics pertaining to the word race, in the sense of racing (cars, bikes, etc) and not race as I had intended. I value a search engine that searches for all the words I request so I can be assured cohesive and inclusive search results, rather than limited and unfulfilling results that I obtained from kartoo.com. Although the website was well designed, it was also hard to look at visually and hard to follow because of the many spider webs which emerged from the various topics.

Advantages of open directory:
-Stimulates results in an organized manner. You are given a list of articles, as well as various other categories that the search engine believes pertain to your search. You may click on any of these categories which include how many matches there are. Google just gives you a list of articles.
-Every article that is stimulated explains what the article is about so you know what you are clicking on. In Google, every article title is followed by the first few lines of the article, and not an explanation of the overall article so you know what it is you are selecting.
It allows you to search on various other websites (Altavista, HotBot, Netscape, etc) whereas Google only allows you to search on its own site.
-It searches in many languages (Catalan, German, Spanish, etc.)
-Allows opportunities to become an editor, or to submit a site.
Introduces the website and allows for further information about the site with various URLs that pertain to the site.
-It is a volunteer based search engine which gives the opportunity for everyone to contribute.

Disadvantages of The Open directory:
-The Open directory does not stimulate as many searches as Google does. It filters out many articles which may have perhaps been useful.
-Is it very word specific. When I typed in “Race in the media” it said nothing could be found, whereas when I typed in “Race and the media”, it found results. Google would have found the same results, despite “in” or “and”.

beyond seach tools

2005-03-08T13:04:00.001-08:00

The search tool I liked the best was kartoo.com because when I searched for kiss of the panopticon all of the relevant sites appeared on the page and everything was grouped on the side panel. when u search for something initially an icon appeared which indicated that it was searching the database although its something that wont really change the outcome of a search I found it welcomed because most sites are bland and boring .Another feature which I liked was the ability to save your search, mapes

The site I found least helpful was http://news.stamen.com/ first of all I was very confused as to what or wear to go they have all these color bars which meant nothing to me. For a first time user it might be a little too confusing. Also compared to cnn where most articles are on the front page and ready to be viewed. On this page I had to sort though And figure out what to do and where to look in for example I was looking for Lebanon and needed to sear thought many of those blocks of color before I found anything while on cnn it was displayed on the front page confusing for someone who has never used it for sure.

The open directory

Well what I really like about this search tool is that if nothings available it asks if u want to try another search engine mainly Google. It also allows anyone to edit url links and stuff to help add to its database IT also separates subjects into categories which is useful for anyone that has an idea for a specific heading like videogames. It looks the same as Google appearance wise, everything is in front of you easy to see, with little confusion.

Just as gouge can expand so can this search engine thought editors summiting articles. So it’s just as powerful as Google allowing for future expansions.

The biggest problem found with this site is it took me many tires to finally search for “race and the media” due to large server loads it seems its not as versatile as goggle which works regardless of how many people are using it . Since everything is sorted into categories it sometimes could take a while to find what you’re looking for sometimes directly typing in a search term might not yield any results. This search tool grows by allowing anyone to edit its contents or add to it this maybe hinder it as peoples own laziness could allow it to stop growing as fast as Google and its search bots

SIMAR HAMID

Diane's post for March 8 - beyond search engines

2005-03-08T13:04:00.000-08:00

The search engine I liked best was Kartoo. I simply typed in Futurama, then about 8 websites came up with the properties of each. I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to know, but when I saw the word ‘wallpaper’ I thought – hey! – I should get some Futurama wallpaper for my desktop. Then I could see which Futurama websites had wallpaper. If I clicked on ‘wallpaper’, then it showed popular wallpaper sites. The site is very cool for browsing.

The one I liked the least was Mooter. When I searched for Futurama, I could choose from ‘movie’, ‘movies’, ‘cartoon’, ‘series’, ‘fox’, ‘television’ and ‘groening’. After choosing a few of these clusters, I found that the websites found were repeated under the categories. The categories were too much alike to really have much purpose.

The Open Directory is better than Google in a lot of ways. At Google, a number of sites come up that when you look at them, you have to sort them and decide if it is relevant. At the Open Directory, the categories are given first, then you can click on a relevant category and relevant sites are displayed. The site is sorted by experts in the field who do the deciding for you. This leads to more precise searching.

The Open Directory is not perfect, however. The site is organized by volunteers; it even asked me if I would like to help edit this category. The site has no way of knowing whether the person editing is actually an expert or not. I, a person who knows nothing about cooking, could help edit and sort recipes. This takes away from the trustworthiness of the site. Also, when I searched for “media AND ethnicity” some fabulous cultural studies categories appeared. Unfortunately, many of them had nothing to do with media.

Diane Jansen

Beyond Search Engines

2005-03-08T13:03:00.000-08:00

1. I liked the Mooter search engine the best. It provided me with the easy access to everything I needed with complete ease. The lay out of the search results was very interesting and it also provided other results, which were closely related to my search and were also very helpful. One downside to it though, was the fact that you could only search in Australia or the rest of the world. All in all I think that Mooter is a very good search engine and I plan to use it in the future.

2. My least favorite search engine would have to News Stamen. Although it did give some good information, I didn’t like the fact that you could only search as far back as 6 days ago. The fact that you couldn’t search for anything was very restricting and I didn’t like that. When you type in something that you are searching for all you get is something that may closely relate to it but not exactly what you are looking for. If you need something which is from only a few days ago and you know that it was important and made headlines than it is a good search engine but other wise I will stay clear of it.

Open Directory: Advantages and Disadvantages

The open directory being a directory which is maintained and edited by volunteers is restricted to what they can find searching the web or watching the news. It has a few different advanced search options which are very helpful for both kids and adults who know exactly what they are looking for or are trying to narrow down their search. As a result of being volunteer operated, the results which are provided are very limited ins some situations. Search engines such as Google always provide many more results for each search. On the search for race and the media I only retrieved 44 results in the open directory as opposed to Google where I found over 14,000,000. After all this I say that the open directory is nothing special and I would rather stick to Google and other search engines which I am more familiar with.

By: Josh Steinberg

New Dimensions to Web Info Retrieval

2005-03-08T12:57:00.000-08:00

Visualization Tools
I liked the Stamen tool the best. It is a great way of catching up on current events in a very visual and intricate way.

The visualization tool I liked least was the Visual Thesaurus. Although it was visually appealing, I found it to be quite impractical and would personally prefer looking up synonyms on a regular online dictionary/thesaurus website.

The Open Directory Compared to Google
The advantages of searching on the Open Directory includes the fact that the results generated are more narrowed and has higher relevancy, since it is maintained by a vast community of editors. In addition, the service is offered in nine different languages (from Catalan to Portuguese) whereas Google.ca is only offered in one other language (French). Disadvantages include the fact that it is not always accessible, particularly in situations when it is under “heavy load”. Furthermore, since it produces significantly less results than Google, it may be weeding out information that could be potentially useful.

Daisy Tsang

Lab March 8

2005-03-08T12:56:00.000-08:00

The TouchGraph Google Browser
This graph was full of information and various sites, but it was way too large and detailed and confusing.

Mooter
I liked Mooter because the layout is very simple. When I searched “the kiss of the panopticon”, instead of getting a mess of zigzags and spindly bursts of colour every time I passed over a site on the map, each aspect of the searched query was simply labeled as what it entailed: the actual term “kiss”, when clicked on came up with various sites of relating to “kiss”, whatever that may be. Same with author, resource, etc. Very simple and quick.

Kartoo
Kartoo wasn’t as simply laid out as Mooter was, but I liked the style of it too. Kartoo’s neat function was that each site that you pass your mouse over on the graph connects with little curved lines what other sites it is related to, and what major sub-topics it’s connected to as well.

Stamen
I hated Stamen. Its way too difficult to understand what is going on, and there are no instructions that will explain anything to you. When I typed in “the kiss of the panopticon”, all I got was a whole bunch of names of people that have been in the news recently, and when I clicked on one of those topics or names, I got dates that I could click on to see what was going on there. Interesting layout, but too difficult to use.

The Visual Thesaurus
Very cool. I like the spidery layout, which is a lot like the Mooter, but obviously has a completely different purpose. I typed in Media as my word to look up, and got hundreds of other words.

The Open DirectoryI found that when searching on the Open Directory, it was much more accurate with precision when recalling. I liked the categories listed at the top, which Google doesn’t have on its search site. The Open Directory doesn’t give close to as many search results as Google does, however, but the value of the information is much greater than half the stuff that comes up on Google.

Open Directory

2005-03-08T12:55:00.000-08:00

Advantages and Disadvantages of searching the Open Directory Vs Google Search Engine:

Advantages:
-because the Open Directory is constructed and maintained by human editors, you have the advantage of more comprehensive and recent information available
-more organized, improves ease of searching on web
-provides list of categories in which your query fits
-provides advanced search option, as does Google

Disadvantages:
-less search results compared to those retrieved when searching for same topic in Google
-may not be able to find exactly what you are interested in
-advanced search option isn’t as comprehensive less as Google’s

Overall I see more advantages than disadvantages of the open directory. I can definitely see myself using it as a search resource in the future.

visualization tools- fav and least fav

2005-03-08T12:54:00.000-08:00

When looking up different visualization tools on the Web, I found that they all had their pros and cons. However, the first one I looked at (TouchGraph Google Browser) was my favorite. At first, it seemed a little intimidating and confusing but it was very easy to understand once I started to explore it. It provided a lot of links that are divided into several different subjects, allowing for precise and easy research. Once you click the info box it provides a summary of the site that it provides for you, so you can determine whether or not it is worth looking at. It also allows you to change the colors, the number of lines that are displayed and a scroll bar allows a zoom in/out of the graph.
My least favorite was news.stamen.com. It was visually interesting but unfortunately, I think this did not work in their favor. Each square represents a person that news stories have been made on in a certain time frame. However, you can only see who occupies which square by placing your mouse over the square and a pop up appears. This makes it hard to remember who belongs to which square and is also more time consuming to have to look at each square individually in order to see who are being represented. I think it would have been more beneficial if the names were displayed or put in a list that is easy to read and easier to access. Once you choose a person it provides several links like a google search would have done. All in all, I did not find this visualization tool to be that great.

Visualization Tools

2005-03-08T12:53:00.002-08:00

I was a fan of the Kartoo visualization tool because it has a very user friendly interface that is easy to use and visually appealing as well. The results were easy to navigate and tended to be fairly relevant when examining a broad range of topics.
The visualization tool I liked least was the mooter search engine...it was fairly easy to navigate but it exhibited many irrelevant search results and yielded poor precision rates on a variety of topics. Once the creators have a chance to fully execute its capabilities and work the bugs out of the engine it should increase relevance and increase it's user friendliness improving it's popularity vastly.

Lab: Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Beyond Search Engine - #2

2005-03-08T12:53:00.001-08:00

I like the Stamen the best because as I typed in Sony about which I was interested in finding news it gave me all the possibilities. For example when I typed 'S' it gave me all the things that start with S.

On the other hand, I like the Touch Graph Google browser the list, simply because I just didn't know how to use it.

posted by Ho-Yul Lee

Open Directory vs Google

2005-03-08T12:53:00.000-08:00

The Open Directory webpage was created as an attempt to organize and simplify the frenzied nature of the internet. It was designed to ensure that searchers find only relevant search results based on the fact that there is so much useless and mediocre information on the internet today making searching for specified topics more and more difficult. This site would be advantageous to anyone doing a very specified search with a very specific research mode in mind. Because the objective of the Open Directory site is to filter out ineffective information, the number of hits on a specified topic will be very limited yet precise. Depending on the type of study being preformed and the area of research, this site or Google could be of benefit. Google would be useful when the specified method or area of search is not yet known and a degree of flexibility and freedom is involved. Google does not subscribe to any filtering methods and as such, would result in a great number of hits on a specified topic, regardless of relevance. This tool would allow you to expand areas of research and explore possible topics and ideas. Overall, both tools could be useful depending on the search being preformed and the characteristics of it.

The Open Directory

2005-03-08T12:49:00.000-08:00

I found that this tool works almost the same as Google. The advantage I found is that the Open Directory offers you a list of categories that were found in addition to the websites. Google does not offer this feature. Seeing as Google is powered by the Open Directory, the search on Google would not provide any more accurate results. Though the google search provides thousands more websites than the Open Directory, the Open Directory has more accuracy.

Lab March 8th Part Two

2005-03-08T12:47:00.000-08:00

After looking at the two different search engines, we found advantages and disadvantages about both of them. First off, they did have a lot of similarities. In both, the key words were highlighted, there was a brief description of the article and they had the same advanced search. With Google, the visual aspect of the site was easier to read and the font was larger and little more specific. The Open directory seemed a little more complicated, and it was a bit overwhelming with all the different options. Now I do not know if this is because we are more familiar with Google, but on a first glance basis, the open directory seemed more complicated. The good parts about the open directory were that they gave you a more limited search. Instead of giving you 1,000 options for a search (as Google did) it only gave you 40 options which were easier to handle. Also, the idea of the different open directory's was nice for further search options, which Google did not have. Overall, we found that both sites had good and bad parts about them and they are both reliable search engines to use.
By Katie McKinnon and Lesley Walton

Lab March 8th

2005-03-08T12:46:00.001-08:00

Visualization tools:

The tool that I found to be the best was mooter. This tool presented a kind of new way to search
for information. The tool is capable of finding related terms to the searched term and then display a sort of web with the terms so someone can look for information relating to the term searched based on a related term. I found Visual Thesaurus to be simliar to mooter except you have to pay for Visual Thesaurus which is uncalled for. I attempted to use Visual Thesaurus and when I searched it gave me a related term and when I clicked the term to search for it I couldn't because I had used up all my free tries, which was a total of one.
Although I found Visual Thesaurus to be pretty bad, the tool that I found to be the worst was Stamen. I can't really see a good purpose for this tool at all. It provides some kind of losing/gaining scale for several different names or topics and I can't see any use in this.

Open Directory:

Open Directory seems to have many disadvantages when compared to google, but not many advantages. One disadvantage is the "heavy load" problem, which is no problem at all with google. If too many people are using ODP at any one time, you have to wait to conduct your search, which doesn't happen with google. Another disadvantage is that ODP can't seem to
retrieve as many results as with a google search. This is a problem because it limits the number of possible sources for finding information. One advantage of ODP is the category system which seems better than google's because it opens the possiblility of finding more sources related to the same topic, and the categories are based on terms related to the search term, so it is likely that
these categories can find other related information on the search topic.

What I Liked Best/Least About Visualization

2005-03-08T12:46:00.000-08:00

What I Liked Best...

The best one was probably the straight forward and easy to use Mooter.com. I typed in a search (coldplay) and got a list of categories like BAND, or LYRICS, or POSTERS, etc. And all I had to do was search through those, and get a whole list of sites directly related to my precise search. No sorting through piles of Google pages. They were categorized and that makes me happy.

What I Liked Least...

Anything BUT Mooter.com because they just seemed like they were flashy designs that were good for nothing but giving my synonyms and alternate searching terms, which, while that is a plus, doesn't give websites to click on quick and easy like. They just seem like tools where graphic designers and librarians show off. And new.stamen seemed to me to be a popularity contest, which is interesting but doesn't give solid information. just data.

Posted by Alex paterson

Advantages and Disadvantages of Searching the Open Directory

2005-03-08T12:43:00.000-08:00

"The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web." However, Google still has way more sites available to search through. The Open Directory Project searches over four million sites, whereas on the Google page it says it searches 8,058,044,651 web pages. It's similar to Google in that upon searching we are presented with categories such as: arts, games, shopping, sports, and so on - all sub categories which make it easier for us to use in our searching.

One advantage of using the Open Directory Project is of particular interest to those who do not speak English as their first language. It is available in nine different languages which can be accessed through the main website. On the other hand, Google is automatically loaded onto an English page but there is a link which will take you to the French version of the program.

Google also seems to be better at retrieving information when boolean expressions are used whereas the Open Directory doesn't always find both subjects you are looking for.

Overall, Google is still my preferred search engine over the Open Directory because it retrieves more data and is much quicker at doing so as well!

advantages and disadvantages of searching the open directory

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When comparing searching the Open Directory to searching the Google search engine, there are several things that differ. The Open Directory is much bigger than Google. It works as a collective brain as a way for the Internet to organize itself. The vastness of this web directory can also be a disadvantage in that the amount of options can be slightly overwhelming. An advantage is that because it is simply a data provider, compared to Google it has no influence or knowledge on how the queries are searched.
posted by Katie and Robyn

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The Open Directory

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The advantage of using The Open Directory is that when topics are searched, the precision is high. Of the results returned, most related to the representation of race in the media. Also, because of The Open Directory's unique organization, the sites that looked relevant actually were useful, and from reputable sources. When searching on Google, many of the sites that look relevant on the results page are actually not helpful at all, and not from recognized sources.

The disadvantage of using The Open Directory is that the recall is much smaller than it would be when searching using Google. Even though most of the results returned are useful, there are many more pages on the Internet that would be useful, but are not included in the directory so are not returned. On Google, there are thousands of sites returned, and if the time is taken to sort through them, more useful sites will be found than on The Open Directory.

Nooreen

The Open Directory VS. Google [march 8th,2005]

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The open directory is a reliable search engine in terms of its content, the fact that the content and sites are handpicked give it credibility. When searching with the open directory, sites are listed with a short description and the category they belong to. Any related groups are also displayed at the top of the page. The advantage of the open directory is that it produces more relevant information, and gives further possibilities of research by providing related directories. However, this also makes the search much more limited in scope. There is much less results produced, and may not be sufficient for research. Also Open Directory lacks some inportant features that is used by google. It does not have options for users to search within a particular region or language for a web site. This makes it difficult for non-english speaking people to use the site. The open directory, due to its voluntary basis, also seems to lack the server capacity of Google. It occured to me serveral times during my search and was extremely inconvenient.

Google vs. The Open Directory

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There were definitely advantages to searching the Open Directory as opposed to Google. One of these advantages was that, since the sites are organized by volunteers, the search provided categories that you can use to make your search more focussed. For example, i seached modernist art, because the topic of modernism was discussed in my MIT025 class. The search results included categories of "Society; Subcultures; modernist", "Art; Literature; Time Periods and Movements; Modernism", "Art; Poetry; Poets; Modernist" and a few others. This allows a searcher to find the exact aspect of, say, modernism that they are seeking. The Google search did not do this.

A Disadvantage to the Open Directory, and a fairly obvious one, is that not all existing web material on the seached topic is retrieved in the search. The google search retrieved 450,000 results for the exact keywords that found 104 in the open directory (this argument sorta sounds like one from my Google vs. Library Database essay!) Generally, there is less information to be found on the Open Directory site.

--Andrew Ioi--

Lab March 8

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Visualization Tools

Best: http://news.stamen.com
Why?
I think this is a very interesting way to look up on a particular news story that interest you. You will be able to see the different ways people have chosen to written about that topic. It will allow you to see that story from all different perspectives and not have somebody else’s bias attached to your opinion.

Least: ToughGraph Google Browser
Why?
The main reason is because the explanation that it gives you for each site is very vague. In the other tools you are usually given a more in depth abstract. I think a good description is important. They allow you to only go to sites that seem relevant to you. With this tool I am getting too many sites that are irrelevant and I do not realize it until I am there.

The Open Directory

One the main disadvantages is that if the open directory is under a “heavy load” it can not conduct your search. This is happening to me right now and I am becoming very annoyed. I would rather search in google for this reason specifically. When it finally does begin working though, the way it categorizes the searches in categories and then sites makes it a lot easy to narrow your search if a category is relevant to you. One was for me, and it provided me with a shorter list of sites that were all mostly relevant. It seems more organized then google, but the first problem really pissed me off.

Lab March 8th, 2005

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After searching the four web sites we found that the easiest to use and most educational was the web site http://news.stamen.com. It was very specific and the setup was unique. It had current and relevant issues in regards to sports, entertainment and many other news fields. Not only could you look at current information, you could also look at stories from the past. This is not to say that the other web sites were not beneficial, but in terms of personal preference we found that this one was the best. With mooter.com the information provided was not as detailed and it was almost overwhelming at first. Although kartoo.com was similar, we would have to say that our least favourite one was mooter.com. In regards to the visual thesaurus, it was quite different from the other sites but very easy to use. It was much more efficient than the thesaurus on Word or other programs. We found it a very accurate website that would be very beneficial to all people.
By Katie McKinnon and Lesley Walton

Lab: March 8, 2005

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March 8, 2005

Part 2
a. My favorite website on the list is The Visual Thesaurus. The site allows users to search for synonyms and then displays results in a unique web structure. The Visual Thesaurus gives an interesting twist to more conventional sites like thesaurus.com that simply list a long list of similar words. The site may be more cool than practical, but it is interesting nonetheless.

b. My least favorite website was Kartoo.com. The site is somewhat similar to The Visual Thesaurus in that results are displayed in a web-like map. The results are linked by similarity to a central search. Although very cool, different, and graphically pleasing, I didn’t find this site particularly useful. Looking through the map display was slow and inefficient, and switching to another page of results took several seconds of loading time.

Part 3
I was very impressed by the Open Directory. In their mission statement, site designers argue that “The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered…. Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself.” In many ways, this makes the Open Directory more useful than the Google search, as all the results that I got were somewhat useful. When I searched for “race and the media” in the Open Directory, it returned categories such as Society: Ethnicity: Multiracial: News and Media and Society: Ethnicity: News and Media. Both of these resulted in useful hits.

Visualization Tools/The Open Directory

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After trying all of the listed visualization tools, I found that the one I liked the most was the Mooter tool. I did a search on the movie "Finding Neverland" and was given seven different "clusters": movie, neverland, movies, depp, author, reviews, and film. I was also given the option of viewing all of the results in one "cluster". I liked this option because it can help you focus on one aspect of the movie or very general ones.

I also liked the Stamen News search - it's a very interesting way of keeping up with the week's news stories. I searched "Martha Stewart" and all of the news stories on her in the past week (and there have been many) came up. There were even ones as recent as three hours ago. I liked this tool a lot but I seemed to be limited to the people/events that it "suggested".

The tool I liked the least was Kartoo. When I searched "Finding Neverland" again, I had difficulty finding any relevant results and many seemed to be in French. Perhaps I wasn't using the tool correctly but in any result, it didn't seem to be too straightforward.

Using the Open Directory was a new and informational experience. The disadvantages to using this tool seem to be that you don't get the wide variety or sheer number of results that you do with the Google search engine. But in contrast to that, the Open Directory seems to be much more focused. When I searched "race and the media", I was given several results, in addition to suggestions for other related topics in the Category results. The links to the individual search engines on the bottom of the page were also very useful.

Lab March 8, 2005

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I liked the Visual Thesaurus the best as I found it very useful in searching for words and meanings. I could definitely see myself using this tool when writing papers. I found the tool very clear and easy to understand. I also liked how the definitions where availiable on the screen when you scrolled over the words and lines but disappear when the cursor was moved so that the screen was not cluttered with information. Overall, it was both informative, helpful and easy to use.

I liked Kartoo the least because I could not really understand how to use it. The results were mostly unrelated to my search subject and the display was very confusing. I did not understand how each resource linked to the others or simply how they linked to my search. It was both confusing and ineffective in delivering the search results I wanted. I cannot see myself choosing to use this tool for research purposes because of its confusing nature.

Open Directory:
The advantage of the open directory is that the search results are mainly very relevant and the amount is small so it is easy to go through each of them to select the best ones. There are also subject headings available at the top which help to narrow down the search should one of them prove to be applicable. This makes searching much more efficient overall.
The disadvantage of the open directory is that it has very limited returned results so it may not cover all resources available. Google has a much larger base of resources and therefore more returned results. Also, since the open directory is free, the volunteers may be less motivated to search for high-quality results that Google’s workers may strive for.

March 8th - Visual Navigation / Open Directory

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Visual Nagivation Tools:
The tool I found most effective was mooter.com's clusters. This gave me the opportunity to separate what I was looking for into a specific category such as an author, artist, date or theory. I also had the option of receiving all my search results in a traditional google-type format.

The least effective tool I found was the TouchGraph Google Browser. This site took awhile to load, and the results were scattered and complicated. Initially I was impressed by the graphics and navigation, but I found it relatively useless when searching for a particular topic or site. I would prefer using an actual search engine over using this tool.

Open Directory Project:

The benefits of using this tool instead of a regular search engine is that everything has been neatly categorized by hand, making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for. You don’t need to change your search too many times before your desired information is found. When you search Google, you are simply searching the contents of other people’s web pages, using their descriptors and keywords. This directory on the other hand uses common keywords with more organization.

The major drawback appears to be that there is not as much volume to search with. Since all the information must be sorted out by hand, it becomes difficult to get as many results.

LAB tuesday march 8

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Visualization Tools

Best: http://news.stamen.com/
Why?
I think this is a very interesting way to look up on a particular news story that interest you. You will be able to see the different ways people have chosen to written about that topic. It will allow you to see that story from all different perspectives and not have somebody else’s bias attached to your opinion.

Least: ToughGraph Google Browser
Why?
The main reason is because the explanation that it gives you for each site is very vague. In the other tools you are usually given a more in depth abstract. I think a good description is important. They allow you to only go to sites that seem relevant to you. With this tool I am getting too many sites that are irrelevant and I do not realize it until I am there.

The Open Directory

One the main disadvantages is that if the open directory is under a “heavy load” it can not conduct your search. This is happening to me right now and I am becoming very annoyed. I would rather search in google for this reason specifically. When it finally does begin working though, the way it categorizes the searches in categories and then sites makes it a lot easy to narrow your search if a category is relevant to you. One was for me, and it provided me with a shorter list of sites that were all mostly relevant. It seems more organized then google, but the first problem really pissed me off.

Lab March 8th

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I found that the best tool was actually the one for kartoo.com. It showd a variety of websites that can be linked to the original search, and organizes it in an interactive, easy to use web of links.
I did not, however, find mooter.com helpful at all. It was difficult to find information, and I could not find the website I was looking for at all. Perhaps I wasn't doing it properly, but I still didnt like it compared to the other tools.

Kiss of the Panopticon search

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Out of the suggested tools to use my favourite to use was Mooter. From the few quick searches that I made on the site they came back with good comprehensive responses.
It is basic and straightforward to search on. I also like how it pops up the best search result initially and then allows you to view the other searches it got. That cuts the searching time in half and allows people to get want they want quick and easy.

And how can I leave out that I love how it says MOOT! instead of search and how it can be in Red or Blue.. (I know i'm weird)

The one that is liked the least was stamen.com I didn't find the fact that it was "events in the news" that limits the search.

visualization tools

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I found all the visualization tools pretty cool, nothing like anything I have experienced on the web thus far. I'm having difficulty choosing which tool i like best, so I will give you my top two. For search purposes, I like Mooter the best. It was fairly straight forward and easy to use, especially for beginner web users like myself. And my second favourite would be the Visual Thesaurus. I found this really cool, and could be quite useful during those essay writing moments when you just cant think of the right word to fit in your sentences. Although I thought that all the tools were quite interesting, I must admit that Kartoo was my least favourite. I found it the most difficult to figure out, and more disorganized than some of the other sites we visited.

Lab: March 8, 2005

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Visualization Tools

I personally found that the Visual Thesaurus was the best one to use. It worked the best for the visualization in my opinion. It was not only easy to use but it made sense and it mapped the information in a way that made it simple. Kartoo and TouchGraph employed similar methods but they did it with websites which made it more complicated and more difficult to use. Of these two TouchGraph provided the information much more comprehensively when compared to Kartoo which gave much less information. I found Mooter to be completely useless. It did not find much information and even after reading the instructions the results still made very little sense and it was difficult to see where they were coming from given that they were not all provided in one visualization.

Open Directory

The open directory immediately gives you a list of categories at the top which it thinks will be useful. I found the first result useful but the others were about sports and their coverage when searching for "Race" and "Media" However, having said this the directory links make it very easy to find what I was looking for it immediately had the information I was looking for. It is much more organized than google is which makes it nice, but for organization we give up size. It is a trade off. Searching becomes easier but results are less. Finding the information was much faster on the open directory, but given time Google produces more results. As the Open Directory grows it will become a great tool but for now size is its limit.

Posted By: Cole Thorsen

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I liked Kartoo.com the best because when i typed in what i was searching for it gave me an option of what I wanted to look at, it also found the official page (I searched Louis Vuitton).

I liked news.stamen.com the least because I found it slight confusing to navigate my way around. I found this was the same with geneseo.edu I could seem to find my way around.

The Open Directory:
- Advantages
o Less work for moderators
o It allows for people to help edit topics they are knowledgeable about or interested in
- Disadvantages
o Anyone can sign up
o Not everyone is reliable

Google:
Google has many search features that help you find exactly what you want which I find to be very helpful. Example, Search within results, language, images and so on…

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Visualization tools [March 8th, 2005]

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Out of the 5 tools presented, I found http://mooter.com to be my favorite. This is due to the easy to understand interface, and the clear and concise way it presented its information. The search results were presented in groups where I could choose which results were best related to what I preferred. The results were then displayed under the chosen category in a similar way Google would display it.

I liked http://kartoo.com the least. Its concept was very similar to that of the TouchGraph Google Browser. The one thing that differed them was in terms of their visual organiztion. Touchgraph tried to simplify its interface by displaying only how key terms related by their proximity to the centre word or Url. Kartoo did almost the same thing. The problem with Kartoo is that it does not show the links until you mouseover a URL. This makes the site very hard to browse and understand, as URL give us little information at what the site may mean.

Visualization Tools

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a. I liked the Visual Thesaurus the best. It was very easy to use: there was only one field to fill in and one button to press. The results page was very straightforward and clear to understand. The actual words returned were organized based on what meaning of the word they applied to, if there were multiple meanings, and this made the search very efficient.

b. I liked Kartoo the least. Although the search page was very simple, the results page was extremely complicated - so complicated, that I wasn't even able to find a result that related to what I was searching for.

Nooreen

Visual Navigation Tools- Pros and Cons

2005-03-08T12:26:00.000-08:00

Visual Thesaurus takes the cake....

Out of the suggested visualization tools used to navigate the Web in a new light, I found the visual thesaurus to be most useful because it displays the words relevant to the search in a way that makes finding the right substitute for a word easy. The branch structure of the word diagram makes locating words very easy and the site is easy to use. Alot of times when preforming a word query, the searcher has to sift through definitions and alternative words, some of which may be irrelevant to the search, especially with many different meanings for the same word. This site presents the words in a very clear and precise manner. The only downside to this site--you have to pay for it.
The site that I found the least useful personally, was the touch graph google browser. This tool was far too crowded, jumbled and chaotic to be of any use at all, and is extremely difficult to interpret. I would think that when creating new visually stimulating ways, or any new ways at all, to navigate through the web, one would focus on the ease in which searchers could access and preform inquiries with their web tools. I'm not sure exactly what this graph tool would be used for or how it could be of benefit for someone interested in preforming a search.

Lab for March 8th

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For Part 2
The visualization tool i liked the best was the visual thesaurus because the product has a nice user interface and it is a useful tool for students. the only down side is that it is not for free.

the least tool i liked was the TouchGraph browser because applet on the site is very slow and it is not a useful thing to check who is linked to the W3C main page.

For Part 3
Advantages of using Open Directory is that it is put together manually by actual human beings which means that only useful and meaningful entries will be added to the directory unlike the google site where a spider browses the web for indexing pages.

Disadvantage of using the open directory is that it is not as powerful as google. Google has more features on its search pages and more boolean operations can be used to limit search results.
Cheers,

Stamen vs. Visual Thesaurus

2005-03-08T12:23:00.000-08:00

Out of the new visualization tools that we browsed through today my favourite would have to have been Stamen (http://news.stamen.com). The site was visually appealing with its black background and brightly coloured text, and it was easy to navigate through as well. It didn't lead me astray as a viewer at all, enabling me to simply click on a name of particular interest which would conveniantly pop open a new window and provide a list of recent articles published on that given subject. I liked using this one because it gives you so many options to choose from once you select your subject, and it also allows you to read articles coming from all different points of view.

In contrast I liked the visual thesaurus the least because I found it to be too 'showy' almost. It seems as though this site was striving to be visually appealing while forgetting that simple is better a lot of times. After clicking on just a few words it becomes so crowded that it's hard to follow the concept map clearly any longer. This service is not free either and so it can be discouraging to even look up this site when you have no intentions of paying to use it.

I'm a big fan of the MOOTER visualization tool

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I tried out all of the suggested visualization tools and found that MOOTER was my favourite. (Based on the few quick searches I made) It allows you to search a phrase and returns a visual web of related subjects and topics where you will find information on the terms you searched. For instance i searched a band's name and the web had links to information on the "band", "music", "lyrics", and "artist". A movie title will return links on the topics of movie, director, the main actors, author, etc.

This is definitely something that would be handy when you are searching for something on the internet with ambiguous keywords: for example you can differentiate between a website on a movie or a book (sharing the same title) if that makes sense.

The visualization tool that I found the LEAST useful was the Stamen tool. It focuses only on recent news and is not convenient for general web searching. Perhaps this is based on a think bias of my own, given that I rarely use the internet to fulfil my current-event needs.

Also, I found the Google TouchGraph to be somewhat confusing. I found that too much was displayed on the page at a time and it was difficult to mentally organize the information and filter it for what I was specifically looking for (once again, IF that makes sense)

--Andrew Ioi--

Ethnic Images, Videos and Sounds

2005-03-02T10:37:00.000-08:00

AUDIO, PHOTOS, MOVIES

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=MLKDream
This is an audio recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s infamous “I have a dream” speech from August 28, 1963. It was found in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_5D7k::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gotts
This is a picture of thousands of civil rights protesters in Alabam in the 1960s. It was also found in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_2elb::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottsc
This is another image from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. It is also a photo of Selma to Montgomery Marchers in front of the Alabama State Capitol building. The protestors are waving American Flags.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Speech/VideoTest/africanamvid2.html
This is a video that discusses the Rodney King beating as well as a modern-day youth’s perspective on racism. This was found on the Berkley SunSITE

ARTICLES

http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3938
This is an article about the famous Brown v. Board of Ed. Case from 1954. It talks about how racism in society and the media has affected education. It also discusses how education is different today, due to changes in levels of racism. This article was found on Google.

http://www.pbs.org/race/007_Resources/007_01-search.php?getonly=Video%20/%20film&searchheader=Video/films
This is not really an article as much as it is a list of films. Actually it IS just a list of films, and not an article at all, but I feel obliged to post it anyway. It lists film resources on the subjects of ethnicity, racism, and immigration. I think that it provides good resources for someone looking to investigate the topic thoroughly.

Posted (late)
by Andrew ("the honest") Ioi and Erin ("reliable") LaRocque

March 2, 2005. Construction of Race

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1. Resource: The Open Video Project
Good Neighbor Family, 1943. <http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3841>
I chose this video because it compared American family culture with that of Latin family culture. It was easy to access, and provided substantial information escorted by the stereotypes of the time.
2. Resource: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
Selma to Montgomery marchers wave American flags in front of the Alabama State Capitol at the end of their 5 day march, 1965.
They say a picture’s worth 1000 words, in this case that is true. The picture gives you an abstract, dramatic idea as to what is going on at the time.
3. Resource: Google
News file: Rodney King Riots, 1996
http://www.time.com/time/newsfiles/rodneyking/
This picture attached Rodney King to the events as an individual. It was provided with a brief explanation of the situation.
Part 2

1. Ian F. Haney Lopez, The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice, 29 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1-62, 6-7, 11-17 (Winter, 1994).
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/race.htm

I picked this website because it seemed credible, and I found the direction focused on by the author to be interesting. The article focuses on the construction of race through law as appose to biology. It had great citation, and bibliographic information for those using the site as a reference.

2. Bowman, Moria, David Rogers. A History: the Construction of Race and Racism. (Western states centre, Portland).
http://www.westernstatescenter.org/resource/ScreenDRHistory.pdf

I liked this site because it had a lot of information and a lot of images to demonstrate its points. I liked that it used a PDF/Adobe Acrobat file format, and the presentation of the information. It also had a good use of bibliographic citations.

Audio, Pictures and the Construction of Race in the Media

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Part 1: Audio and Pictures of the "I Have a Dream" speech and the Selma to Montgomery march

URL: http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=MLKDream
I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. audio speech, August 28, 1963
This site was found on the Internet Archive database and was retrieved from the University of California library. This site is useful because it provides an audio recording of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. This would be essential in researching African American spokespersons as he is one of the most influential black activists of all time. Also, this site is helpful as it provides the audio recording in various different formats, therefore more people can gain access to it.

URL: http://www.africanamericans.com/SelmaMarch.htm
Pictures of the Selma to Montgomery march, March 7, 1965
This site provides pictures of the Selma to Montgomery march that was led by the activist Martin Luther King Jr., who was a prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement, after the first attempt failed. This site is helpful because there are several action pictures depicting the protestors and the police. Even though there are only a few pictures, they are very illustrative of the importance of this symbolic moment in history. Also, the text provides the reader with a background of what happened during this demonstration.

Part 2: Sites found on Google pertaining to the construction of race and ethnicity in the media

URL: http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/24/4/481
This article is entitled Erasing Blackness: The Media Construction of "Race" in Mi Familia, the First Puerto Rican Situation Comedy with a Black Family. The resource for this article is from SAGE Publications website in the Media, Culture and Society section. This is an article about the construction of black characters in a specific Puerto Rican sitcom. This article analyzes in depth the correlation between the media's representation of ethnic minorities in different countries and what this says. This is a useful essay as it examines the construction of the characters and uses this television show as a case study in which to provide instances.

URL: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Grad_Sch/McNair/Summer01/alKaleem.htm
This article is entitled Television News Images of African Americans and their Effects on Self Esteem. This is a useful site for the study of the construction of racial and ethnic minorities in the media as it studies news programs in particular. The concentration on the news and the messages it sends is important as this provides inferences on how issues should be interpreted and people should be regarded. The news is a powerful medium that can control what topics the general public thinks about. Therefore, this article is helpful in bringing attention to the negative portrayal of ethnic groups in the news. I chose this site because it provides an in depth analysis of the topic and examines the history behind the construction of news as well as the possible repurcussions of stereotyping in the media. This is a useful site for someone searching for information on the stereotypes that result from the way racial minorities are portrayed on the news.

Anna Cipollone

Websites: Constructions of Race & Ethnicity in Media

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Title: Ethnicity, Racism and Media
URL: www.blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/eram
This website is the home of a discussion forum whose purpose is to “identify, examine and separate the myths about the role and portrayal of ethnicity and race in the media” and is hosted by St. Johns University. This would be useful for someone interested in the construction of race and ethnicity in the media since it is dedicated to discussing all aspects of mass media in producing and circulating representations of race and ethnicity and welcomes anyone who has been subscribed to the forum.

Title: The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity
URL: www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EthnicImagesVid.html
This site provides listings for videotapes in the Media Resources Center at UC Berkeley. It is a videography that provides a wide variety of ethnic and racial portrayals in cinematic history over the last century. The films range from mainstream Hollywood to historical and current films made by directors of colour. The site is neatly organized by categories and also discusses ethnic images from early motion pictures.

Daisy Tsang

Image & Motion Picture Retrieval

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Title: Integration Report I (1960)
Source: The Open Video Project
URL: www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3933
This is a mini documentary displaying the civil rights movement from 1959 to 1960. The clip is 20 minutes long and includes sit-ins, marches, boycotts, and rallies that occurred in Montgomery, Alabama, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. It is black and white, in English, and directed by Madeline Anderson.

Title: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God a'mighty... Free at last!
Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_1uJ9::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
This is an image portraying the Rodney King controversy. It is a cartoon depicting four L.A. police officers beating an African-American with their night sticks. This resource would be useful for someone interested in the Rodney King riots.

Daisy Tsang

constructions of race and ethnicity in media

2005-03-01T13:17:00.000-08:00

Video sources

Portrayals of racial and ethnic cultures in North America

Around the world in new york

Views of immigrant and ethnic communities in New York City.

Sponsor: N/A
Producer: Unknown
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=27320

I chose this media file because it talks about the various ethnic groups in new your city and how by visiting new York u can get a taste and experience the wide assortments of the many racial and ethnic groups in new your . expirencing it all just in one city and saving the trips arount the world to expircne that particular culter

Combination Platter.(1993)

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Speech/VideoTest/mixedracevid.html#movies

This is a documentary style movie in which it shows a Chinese immigrant working hard to obtain his green cards he sets out to arrange a fake marriage with an American woman. I choose this for many reasons. The first being I wanted to show in choosing this article the state at which immigrants go to and struggle for, just to stay in north America. Sometimes facing racism and having to forget there heritage just to be able to stay in the usa. Also addresses is how Americans view immigrants as people who come there to steal there jobs or look at them with distrust.

constructions of race and ethnicity in media

http://www.blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/eram/

this soite is uiinteresting in that it’s a furom based website where they discuss and try to The purpose of this forum is to identify, examine and separate the myths about the role and portrayal of ethnicity and race in the media.

It’s a great site to have open dialogue and meet others who share a common interest in this field

The Race and Ethnicity collection

http://eserver.org/race/race-and-religious-right.html

this web site contain essay type material on various topics related to media studies and ethnicity useful to anyone who needs fast access to various material to cross reference or try to gather as much material as possible

http://eserver.org/race/

BY SIMAR HAMID

Gill's Links for finding images, movies and audio, March 1st.

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1. Rodney King LA riots:

Found on the CNN.com video archive. The first video is the verdict handed out by the jury in regards to one of the police officers who assaulted Rodney King. The relevance of this video is that the not guilty verdict handed out was the fuel for the LA riots of 1992. This video is very useful in researching or understanding more about the Rodney King Story and the LA riots that followed.

http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1992/king/king.verdict.large.24sec.mov

2. Rodney King LA riots:

Found on the LA times video archive. This video shows the graphic beating of Rodney King by numerous police officers in Los Angeles. This video shows the beating that much of Black Community rallied against when the jury handed out the not guilty verdict to the involved officers. It is relevant because it poses many questions involved with police brutality and racism in the courtroom. These two videos together are very useful and almost mandatory in any research involved with Rodney King and the 1992 LA riots. The only downfall with this video is that it lacks audio.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-042102kingbeating-qt,1,5983436.quicktime?ctrack=1&cset=true

1. BBC News, UK Race:

This webpage is a massive outlet for information regarding race especially in advertising in the media. It showcases how racial representation has changed over the years, and also highlights numerous studies, examples, links and information regarding ethnic representation in the UK especially. This site is very useful with the only downfall being that it is based in the UK and not North America.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/default.stm

2. The Media Awareness Network, Ethnic and Visible Minorities in the Media:

This web directory is branched off of the Media Awareness Network . It proves to be a very useful database carrying helpful links to certain articles, studies, and reports on ethnicity in the media. This webpage is strictly Canadian and could be used as a starting point for anyone exploring the topic of Ethnic Representation in the Media.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/ethnics_and_minorities/minorities_entertainment.cfm

SECOND POST, IGNORE THE FIRST- IMAGES AND WEBSITES

2005-03-01T13:03:00.001-08:00

The Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama: March 7, 1965:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:1:./temp/~pp_5qN2::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
SOURCE:Library of Congress prints and photographs reading room
(Some 300 of the marchers stop for a break)

The Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, 1992 :
http://www.aaregistry.com/eimage/LARiots1992.gif
SOURCE: GOOGLE; http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/850/Rodney_King_riots_erupt_in_Los_Angeles
(a store burning in the midst of the riots)

Speeches by prominent African-American spokespersons
http://www.mlkonline.net/
SOURCE: GOOGLE; MLK online
(there are two audio files contained on this site that show footage of the speech given by Martin Luther King, including his " I have a dream" speech.)

TWO OTHER HELPFUL SITES:

The Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, 1992 :
http://www.emergency.com/la-riots.htm
SOURCE: GOOGLE

This document contains a series of reports that involve information regarding the Los Angeles Riots. It is interesting to read all of the different reports because that way you can compare between the different views and stories

Prominent Black American Speakers:
http://www.aawc.com/paa.html
Source: GOOGLE

This site is a very useful one because it contains a list of a variety of black american speakers and a load of information on each including links to other sites. I would highly recommend this site, there is a ton of valuable information here.

-alica

websites on race and ethicity

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1. http://www.crge.umd.edu/whoweare/index.html
This website is called The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity and is associated with the University of Maryland. The mission of the site is to promote, advance and conduct research related to the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity. The actual page that I found gave an in-depth list of many different resources related to constructions of race and ethnicity in media and provided extremely relevant information about how to locate the source as well as a well rounded abstract about it that states how the source specifically relates to the issues that are the focus of the website. The amount of different sources available and the multitude of different subtopics of the issue that are addressed make this page a great source for a variety of different information on the topic.

2. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EthnicImagesVid.html
This site is called Movies, Race, and Ethnicity and is an excellent general resource from the Media Resources Center at the Moffitt Library at the University of California @ Berkeley. The site has sections on many different ethnic and/or racial groups, as well as in-depth bibliographies and links to different on-line articles. I chose this site because it provided so many different sources on a large number of cultures, giving that much more of a well-rounded perspective on the world in which we have in the past and continue to live in today.

-posted by katie and robyn

Useful sites on Race and Ethnicity

2005-03-01T13:02:00.001-08:00

1. Title: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Source: Google

URL: http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/race.html

I chose this site because it has a ton of great stuff relating to race and ethnicity in all
areas of study including the media. It is packed with images, links to other sites and
several articles dealing with race and ethnicity.

2. Title: Ethnicity and the Media

Source: Google

URL: http://journalism.uts.edu.au/studentwork/carla2001oj1/media.html

I chose this site because it gives a different perspective on some of the current
Issues involving portrayals of ethnic groups in the media. The site contains several
useful links and a “Facts and Myths” section which contains some interesting info.

Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the Media

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Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the Media:

Google Search Results:
I have selected two articles focusing on the representation of racial and ethnic minorities in advertising.

http://forms.gradsch.psu.edu/equity/sroppapers/2003/LockeLinzeeD.pdf
“A Content Analysis: African American Presence in Prime Time Advertisements on BET and MTV Networks” focuses on the issue that despite the steady incline of the presence of African Americans in Advertising, since 1975, the images portrayed are frequently consistent with the common stereotypes in society.

http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_childgen.shtml
This article, “Children’s Advertising and Gender Roles,” from the National Institute on Media and the Family focuses on how advertising has a tremendous impact on the socialization and role development of children in providing them a framework for the development of their identity which manifests typical stereotypes of gender roles in society.

Race and Ethnicity in the Media

2005-03-01T13:00:00.002-08:00

The Portrayal of Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in Televised International Athletic Events
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/reports/diversity/race_athletic_sport.cfm?RenderForPrint=1

This article talks about the way different races are depicted in sports by the media. It includes statistics and explains the studies and research people are doing on the topic.

By: Kali & Amy

Selma to Montgomery March

2005-03-01T13:00:00.001-08:00

http://www.africanamericans.com/SelmaMarch.htm

This web site gives a fast but indepth look into the Selma to Montogomery March. It has pictures as well as links to the people and pther issues surrounding this event.

By Amy and Kali

Speeches by prominent African-American spokespersons

2005-03-01T13:00:00.000-08:00

For this assignment I have chosen to the topic of Speeches by prominent African-American spokespersons, with a narrowed Focus on Martin Luther King Jr., and the “I Have a Dream” speech.
I have found three different resources each providing a different source of media coverage:

Audio:
I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.
From the Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=MLKDream
This is an audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving the "I Have a Dream" speech during the Civil Rights rally on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.

Photo:
http://www.greatestcities.com/users/magnoliasjazz/North_America/USA/District_of_Columbia/Washington/history/
This photo was found using a Google images search which linked to the Greatest Cities Photo Journal. This photo is of Martin Luther King giving his “I have a dream” speech on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial to participants in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Video:
http://www.mlkonline.net/videos/havedream.rm
This is a video file found using the Google advanced search options. It is a video representation of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I have a Dream” Speech.

I have chosen to select three different media representations of the same speech to provide varying means to understand the significance of Martin Luther King Jr. contribution to American history. Each media representation works together to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the essence of his role in American society as a prominent African American Spokesperson.

Race and Ethnicity in the Media

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The Open Video Project, http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3521, “Around the World in New York”. It is a look at the life of immigrants in ethnic communities within New York City. We selected this particular movie because it is very relevant to the particular search about portrayals of ethnic and racial cultures in North America. New York, being one of the biggest States in all of United States, is a clear representation of how various ethnic groups are represented within these fast pace, technology based environments.
The P&P Online Catalog Start, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:1:./temp/~pp_gwk9::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc, “ State Trooper watches as apparently unconscious woman is removed from highway by two friends here 3/7 after she fell in first rush of troopers to break up attempted Selma-to-Montgomery Negro march.” We selected this article because it is a harsh representation of the brutality inflicted upon the people who attempted the Selma-to-Montgomery march and how they were disciplined and treated for their actions. The state trooper who just stands by and watches as two men carry an unconscious woman who was hurt by the troopers in their attempt to break up the march exemplifies his lack of caring for her suffering.
News Voa Com, www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-10-voa26.cfm , “Voices of Civil Rights.” We selected this article because it talks about the importance of Black History month in helping people understand and remember the events that controlled the civil rights movements in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The article emphasizes that the success of the decrease in racial segregation is due to Martin Luther King’s heroic and incomparable actions which shaped the non-violent protests in search of equality and justice.

Constructions of race and ethnicity in media

Media Awareness Network. www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/reports/diversity/race_athletic_sport.cfm?RenderForPrint=1. “The Portrayal of Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in Televised International Athletic events.” This article is a study which examines the depictions of athletes from various races, ethnicities or nationalities when broadcasting international athletic events. The study looks at seven international sport events occurring between 1988-1993 on respective networks examining personal profiles and opening and closing ceremonies in terms of their treatment of race, ethnicity and nationality. We selected this article because when people think of portrayals of race and ethnicity in the media, they mainly think of advertisements and television shows, and very rarely do they think of sports broadcasting. This article examines a very critical aspect of media in which people of differing races, ethnicities and nationalities are treated differently-receiving different amounts of footage, credit and recognition.
Media Awareness Network. www.mediaawareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/crime/crime_has_no_culture.cfm_ “Crime has No Culture or Race.” This article discusses how the media identifies the crime according to the race, culture or ethnicity the person is from. We selected this article because of how relevant is it to our everyday lives when we watch the news, read the newspaper or listen to the radio and the person who commits a crime is always identified by their gender and then there race or ethnicity. This puts a label on certain races, ethnicities and nationalities when more people from a particular group commit crimes, it is thus assumed that all of the people within that certain group are criminals.

Speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.

2005-03-01T12:57:00.000-08:00

Resource: Google Image Search
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mlkbiospot.html
Explaination: I selected this image because it is of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most prominant African-American spokespersons in all of history.

The image depicts Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledging the crowd just after his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28^th, 1963.  He was an advocate of nonviolent protest against racial inequality in America.

Resource:  Google
URL: http://www.gpschools.org/ci/ce/elem/holidays/mlkk5.htm
Explaination: This site contains both a video recording of Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech, as well as an audio recording of the speech "Let Freedom Ring".

Lab for March 1: Other Examples for Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the Media

2005-03-01T12:56:00.000-08:00

From: google.com
URL: http://www.mediaknowall.com/race.html
Explanation: This site provides good information on race and the media and also provides several other links on this topic. One I like about this site is that they do not focus only on the African-American race, although this is a main focus, but they also explore Asian portrayal in the media.

From: Google.com
URL: http://racerelations.about.com/library/weekly/aa080199.htm?once=true&
Explanation: This was a very interesting site which I obtained from a link “Whitewashing on Primetime TV” on the previous site that I explored. It uses five examples of probably the most popular Primetime TV shows and how many minorities have lead roles. ER was the only one. It goes on to provide more information on the topic of the construction of race and ethnicity in the media.

Images and Audio files related to Race and Ethnicity in the Media

2005-03-01T12:50:00.000-08:00

1. Title: Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965

Source: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Online Catalog

URL:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?ils:5:./temp/~pp_ZmnW::displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3c33090:@@@mdbc

This is an image of some participants in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, as the title says. I chose this image because it gives a close look at some of the people involved in the march and gives us a sense of their struggle for freedom and acceptance.

2. Title: I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.

Source: Internet Archive

URL:
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid =MLKDream

This is an audio file of the speech by Martin Luther King he presented on August 28, 1963. I chose it because an audio resource of one of the most famous African-American speeches of all time would be of use for someone interested in researching speeches
from prominent African-Americans.

3. Title: Washington: The Rev. Martin Luther King delivers his address at the Lincoln Memorial here 8/28 during the civil rights march on Washington

Source: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Online Catalog

URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:100:./temp/~pp_3bt4::@@@mdb

This is an image of Martin Luther King delivering a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. I chose this image because it would be useful for someone looking for images that are representative of speeches by prominent African-Americans.

constructions of race and ethnicity in media

2005-03-01T12:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/001331.shtml

Foreign Bodies: SARS, Leprosy and Constructions of Race:
this site details the treatment of different racial and ethnic groups in regards to the diseases that plague certain countries and their assocaition with specific ethnic groups. An example is the mis-treatment of Asian people due to the outbreak of SARS and their assumed assoctiation with the fatal disease. The article details race and ethnicity and the ways that our society and our daily lives are shaped by race as well as places and times where race or ethnicity and disease have come together.
http://static.highbeam.com/j/journalofcomparativefamilystudies/june222000/
howconstructionsofethnicityandgendercontributetosh/
How Constructions of Ethnicity and Gender Contribute to Shaping Non-traditional Family Patterns:
This site deals with the ramifications that constructions of race in the media can have on real life family structures. The article maintains that "This media-driven approach harms our understanding of family dynamics more than it aids us" and that people should be aware of the semblances presented in the media and how to identify them. This would be a useful article because it shows how mis-representations of ethnicities and minorities in media is harmful to one of the most sacred structures in our lives- the family. The article shows that constructions of race can not only be hurtful to the ethnicities invovled, it also has the potential to detriment traditional structures of families and how they are viewed.

Lab for March 1, 2005

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1) Video on Racial and Ethnic cultures in North America
“Around the World in New York”
http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3521

This is a thirteen minute video from the year 1940 providing views of immigrant and ethnic communities residing or visiting New York. I acquired it from the Open Video project, and from what I gather from the synopsis, focuses mainly on Chinese-Americans.

2) Picture of the Selma to Montgomery March
“Selma to Montgomery marchers wave American flags in front of the Alabama State Capitol at the end of their 5 day march.”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_cctG::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc

This is a picture of the Selma to Montgomery marchers waving their American flags in Alabama at the end of their march, which lasted five days. I searched on the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading room and found many of the march.

3) Webcasts of Martin Luther King Memorial Day
http://www.broadcasturban.net/webcast/kingcenter2004/

This looks like a useful site that offers many different webcasts, including an almost daily schedule of webcasts. The webcasts deal with commemorative gatherings in Martin Luther King’s honour, and various greatness awards dinners. I did not watch any of the webcasts, but they look as though they give a celebratory take on MLK’s life.

4) Constructions of Race and Ethnicity in the Media
Savages, Swine and Buffoons
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue08/features/wwii/default-yes.htm

This website offers an essay about the portrayal of Germans, Apanese and Italians in films in films produced during the World War II era. It focuses on how the images were represented during the war in terms of propaganda, and they note that these people were the "enemy".

Useful Images, Videos, and websites for studying Race and Ethnicity portrayals

2005-03-01T12:47:00.000-08:00

Images and Videos

1) Title: Sea of 30,000 civil rights demonstrators gathered outside the Alabama state capitol following their march from Selma to Montgomery (from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room)

URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_5D7k::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc

This is an image of the approximately 30 000 civil rights protestors that have gathered in front of the Alabama state capital building in Montgomery. I have selected this image because I feel that it shows that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was important to many people since there is a large overhead shot of the mass of protestors.

2) Title: Integration Report I (from The Open Video Project)

URL: http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3933

The subjects in this documentary are the various marches, boycotts, and sit-ins in the early days of the civil rights movements in the United States between 1959-1960. This video file will be useful for anybody wanting to study the civil rights movement as it most likely contains speeches by prominent African American activists and should explain how the civil rights movement began.

3) Title: “I have a dream” video. (from Mediachannel.com searched on Google)

URL: http://www.mediachannel.com/special/mlk1.htm

This video clip will be very useful for anybody studying the civil rights movement as it is of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech.

Websites

1) From Google: Trailers: Media and Ethnicity

URL: http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/trailers/media_ethnicity.html

This site provides citations for a number of video clips that deal with the topic of constructions of race and ethnicity in the media. These citations can be perhaps searched for on online video databases or at local libraries.

2) From Google: Gender & Race in Media: TV and Film

URL: http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/tvfilm_txt.html

This site provides a number of useful full text articles and videos relating to race in the media of television and film. The different articles that this site links to all contain detailed information specifically related to the topic of race and ethnicity in the media.

Race and Ethnicity in the Media (Google Search)

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It seems so easy leafing through material on Google because when typing in a topic like the one above simply because there are so many hits to choose from.

The first article I looked at on Google was entitled 'Ethnic and Visible Minorities in Entertainment Media.' It was interesting because it talked about the 'white-washing' of entertainment, in the movie industry in particular, and how very few non-white leads there are in film. It offers surveys that were conducted by the Simon Fraser University on how these representations affect viewers. It also included the misrepresentations of ethnic and racial minorities in video games as well. This is important to examine because this just goes to show that children are being instilled with the wrong ideas about those who aren't of their race and ethnicity at a very young age. It can be located at the following web address: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/ethnics_and_minorities/minorities_entertainment.cfm

Aside from media that is constructed such as film and video games, another article was found talking about race and ethnicity in the media regarding TV broadcasting. It mentioned in the article that broadcast journalism on television is the most popular news medium. It says that there is an abundance of white journalists and then it goes on to discuss the correlation between the journalist and the story selection. It's an interesting read because it shows that even media we rely on as being informative and accurate can be biased and neglect to mention important things. It can be located at the following web address: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2047/is_200312/ai_n6641324

By: Kara Woodburn

images, videos, sound files related to race and ethinicity in the media

2005-03-01T12:43:00.000-08:00

part 1.
Article 1.
1. California Heritage Collection

2. http://ark.cdlib.org/?type=image&xslt=calher&sort=title&search=martin+luther+king&SUBMIT=Search

3. This is a website that contains several images of several ralies in which Martin Luther King spoke at. there are photos of the people who beleived in that King also beleived aswell as photos of king speaking directly to an audience, i think this would helpful not only does it offer images regarding speeches of African Americans spokes persons, but also how the general black public received this spefic spokesperson.

Article 2.
1. Bayard Rustin at news briefing on the Civil Rights March on Washington in the Statler Hotel, half-length portrait, seated at table

2. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_Qcyu::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc

3. This picture contains a very prominate spokesperson for the march on Washington named Bayard Rustin. This was a very historical event and this man was one of the leaders in organizing this march for civil rights for African Americans. For someone being very important to the black civil rights movement this picture depicts him being very unorganized and unpresentable.

Part 2.
Article 1.
1. Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience

2.http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1_e.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1_e.html&h=553&w=700&sz=74&tbnid=JWyS8D3GXlwJ:&tbnh=109&tbnw=138&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drosa%2Bparks%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

3. The Story of Rosa Parks was an event that sparked a call for civil equality for Blacks in America. This event was covered heavily by the media and was an inspiration for black people to stick up for themselves, in order to acheive equality. Why i selected this picture is becasue it was such a large even t that was covered so much by the media, and the picture of an old black lady being arrested by a white cop shows clears contrast between the two groups of people.

Article 2.
1.GEORGE HOLLIDAY'S RODNEY KING BEATING VIDEO

2.http://www.multishow.com.ar/rodneyking/

3. This is a video of the assault of Rodney King by several police officers. This is supposed to be the main website for this tradgedy , whether it is or not i don;t knwo but it does contain a fairly long video of the whole assault. i think this would be good in assisting with further research becasue it gives a clear background as to what inspired the L.A. riots in 1992.

The Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama: March 7,1965

2005-03-01T12:41:00.002-08:00

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query
This Link has results for The Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama: March 7,1965.
It has photos of
(1)A State trooper watches as apparently unconscious woman is removed from highway by two friends here 3/7 [ie March 7] after she fell in first rush of troopers to break up attempted Selma-to-Montgomery Negro march

(2) SNCC leader John Lewis (light coat, C) cringes as burly state trooper swings his club at Lewis' head 3/7 during attempted Negro march on the state capitol at Montgomery--Lewis later was admitted to a local hospital with a possible skull fracture.

These images are important to research surrounding the March in Alabama. It was historicall one of the biggest fights for racial egulity. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights regarding the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.

By: Amy and Kali

Portrayals of Racial and Ethnic Cultures in North America

2005-03-01T12:41:00.000-08:00

Portrayals of Racial and Ethnic Cultures in North America

In North America there is a widespread range of diversity in racial and ethnic cultures. The way these groups are portrayed is different, depending on location and depending on who is illustrating the representation. In searching the following image, movie and sound file databases: The Open Video Project, Berkeley SunSITE (especially the American Heritage Project), The Internet Archive, and the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room a lot of different pieces of data were located on this broad topic. On most of these databases similar data was retrieved as well.

After using The Open Video Project (http://www.open-video.org) a video was located entitled “Let us Bread Together (Part 2)”. It can be located at the following address: http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3972. I found this site useful because it deals with a New York City school district and how it promoted racial integration and intergroup tolerance. This is important data for any student to consider when researching because it clearly demonstrates portrayals of racial and ethnic cultures in North America, but particularly with people of approximately our own age.

Next I conducted a search on the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) and found a similar video as the one mentioned above. In fact, it was the first part of this video entitled “Let us Bread Together (Part 1).” It can be located at the following address: http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=18002a. This site is relevant because it gives the necessary information in order to make the second video useful.

Using the SunSITE database (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu) I conducted a search again on racial and ethnic cultures in North America and again I hit on something that I think students would be interested in reading because it deals with people within our own age group. The video interviews dating couples who are of the mixed race and how different people react upon seeing them together. In some cases it’s completely normal but in others people react poorly upon seeing a couple who is not of the same race. It can be located at the following address: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103823/

By: Kara Woodburn

Lab: March 1, 2005

2005-03-01T12:38:00.000-08:00

Part 1

The Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, 1992 – Video Files
The Los Angeles Times Newspaper Online, http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-riotsvideo.videogallery
The video gallery of the LA Times website has an excellent collection of video resources relating to the riots caused by the beating of Rodney King. Not only do they have the video of the actual beating, but also 3 days of video news coverage of the ensuing riots. Being able to actually see the riots taking place makes this site, in many ways, more useful than other sites that simply describe what took place.

The Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama: March 7, 1965. – Pictures
Celebrate African-American History Month,
http://www.africanamericans.com/SelmaMarch.htm
This website, Celebrating African-American History Month, has a good collection of images from the Selma March. One image shows Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta leading the march into Montgomery, Alabama on March 7, 1965. Other pictures include Alabama Police confronting the Selma Marchers as well as historical sites along the route. This site is useful because it has multiple images with descriptive captions, which capture the mood of the March.

Speeches by prominent African-American spokespersons
The History Channel Online Speech Archive,
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_139.html
The website has an audio speech by the African-American spokesman Jesse Jackson entitled "This campaign has not been in vain," which he delivered as the first Black Presidential candidate in U.S. history at the Democratic National Convention on July 17, 1984. The History Channel offers the entire speech on its website, and is extremely useful for anyone interested in learning about African-American history.

Part 2

News and Information in Spanish, Universidad de California,
http://espanol.ucanr.org/Academics_and_Staff/Working_with_the_ethnic_media.htm
This site is an article entitled “Academics and Staff: Working with the Ethnic Media.” It explains how, in California, it is increasingly important for television networks, radio networks, and newspapers to be aware of the large ethnic communities in the state. This “ethnic media” fosters close ties within ethnic communities, and help to reflect social needs and diversity. It is a very interesting article from a Spanish University, which gives it a unique perspective on ethnic issues.

Find Articles Database, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KAY/is_3_5/ai_90794898
This article begins by stating that cultures are having a spillover affect and are ultimately influencing bordering cultures with their collective values and beliefs. It also states that minority cultures are finding more outlets in which to receive information pertaining to their own cultures and ethnic backgrounds. Major companies like NBC are purchasing smaller ethnic stations in an effort to target the rising market segments. Actions such as this will be emulated by other large corporations that are integrating other cultures and ethnic groups into the world of broadcasting and media in general.

By David Carew and Dean Smith

Race and Ethnicity in the Media

2005-03-01T12:35:00.001-08:00

Resource: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_2elb::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
This is a photograph of Selma to Montgomery marchers, waving American flags in front of the Alabama State Capitol at the end of their march. I selected this photo because it shows people who participated and their emotions once they have been successful.

Resource: Berkeley SunSITE
URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Speech/VideoTest/africanamvid2.html
I chose this video because it addresses the Rodney King beating, but adds a modern touch by interviewing Afro-American youth in the same area, California, about their experiences with racism and prejudices.

Google
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/TragicallyHip.html
This article discusses race in contemporary American Cinema, with a focus on the representation of African-Americans. I chose this website because the article is specifically on race and ethnicity in one part of the media: film. The article is from a very reputable source, “America’s leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema,” Cineaste.

URL: http://neovox.cortland.edu/vox/vox_94/vox_94.html
This article is about the relation between media and minority groups. I chose this website because it is very broad, and a good starting point for those who wish to continue research on this topic.

Nooreen Bhanji

Lab: March 1, 2005

2005-03-01T12:35:00.000-08:00

Resource: The Internet Archive
URL: http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=MLKDream
Explanation: This is an audio recording of Martin Luther King’s “I have dream speech.” I chose selected this as this is likely one of the most well-known speeches made by someone of the African-American community.

Resource: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:1:./temp/~pp_LxCB::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
Explanation: This is a photograph on marchers taking a break during the Selma to Montgomery march. I selected this as this is a relevant pictorial image of the event and allows the user to visualize the situation the participants were in.

Resource: Google
URL: http://www.lsu.edu/raceandmedia/
Explanation: This is a website on the mass communication while promoting media diversity. This is a particularly useful site as it holds directories of information and research sections on resources that surround the topic of race and media.

Resource: Google
URL: http://www.mediaknowall.com/race.html
Explanation: This is a website surrounding the topic of race and media. It focuses upon the stereotyping of minorities in the media while providing links to other resources that are related to the topic. This is useful as it provides several outside resources within one website that the user can look at.

Diane Jansen's post for March 1

2005-03-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

I found this source on the Internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=23635
It is a documentary on the civil rights movement in 1959 and 1960 in various locations in the United States entitled Integration Report 1. The run-time is 20:03. Also, you can view thumbnails from each moment in the movie. It shows speeches, crowds, riots and grafitti.
I chose this resource because it shows the history and the emotion of the movement.

I also found this source on the Internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=open_mind&collectionid=openmind_ep892
It is called, OPEN MIND Special: Race Relations in Crisis 6/12/63 - 11/13/92. It is a 2 hour discussion forum from 1963, where the original guests (Malcolm X, Alan Morrison, Wyatt Tee Walker and James Farmer) discuss the civil rights movement. It was updated in 1992, with some of the orginal guests, Wyatt Tee Walker and James Farmer.
I chose this resource because the guests are both white and black and would give interesting perspectives about the moveoment.

I found this source at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?ils:8:./temp/~pp_OboB::displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3b41629:@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
This is an image of Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the Civil Rights Bill on April 11, 1968. I chose this resource because it is an important event in the civil rights movement.

Race, Media, and Brown v. Board of Education
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/postertool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=373
This website provides a history of Hollywood's portrayal of blacks in film. It contains three articles and relevent images.
I chose this resource because it ties the portrayal of race in media with historical and political happenings outside of Hollywood.

Foreign Bodies: SARS, Leprosy and Constructions of Race
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/001331.shtml
This webiste contains a lecture of Nancy Riley's, an associate professor of sociology. It is at Bowdoin in September, 2003. She talks about common views of race, especially Asian Americans, in regards to diseases such as SARS and leprsy.
I chose this webiste because it is recent and shows how perspectives are constantly changing.

Ethnic and Visible Minorities in Entertainment Media
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/ethnics_and_minorities/minorities_entertainment.cfm
This website contains a number of articles including 'The "White-Washing" of Entertainment', 'Misrepresentation in Video Games', 'The Impact on Viewers' and 'It Matters Who Makes It'.
This website is excellent because it not only talks about the problems of misrepresentation but discusses why this might be. Especially in the article 'It Matters Who Makes It', the site argues that perhaps it is because they are misrepresented backstage that they are misrepresented on screen.

Diane Jansen

Lab for March 1st, 3pm

2005-03-01T12:33:00.000-08:00

This excerpt is from Internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=MLKDream
What I have selected is a sound file of the actual speech Martin Luther King gave in efforts of civil rights. This is crucial to the study of racial minorities as this was a stepping stone in history and is remembered by all.

This document is from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:7:./temp/~pp_Afyy::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
This document is a photograph of civil rights marching to Montgomery protesting for equality among all citizens. Photographs are vital to the research process as much as written text is because they give the spectator visual representation to identify with in the context of the historical situation.

This document is as well from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:10:./temp/~pp_cO1j::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
This is another photograph of from the march; the previous picture shows us the quantity of people involved and where it was, but this picture allows for a multi-perspective view of the march- this photograph shows the marchers dancing and rejoicing- showing us that they truly believed in what they are fighting for and are united as one in their efforts.

Google Searches

The name of the resource is the Media Literacy Review
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/trailers/media_ethnicity.html
I think this is a useful link as it provides multiple articles, authors, movies etc. that pertain directly to our topic.

The name of the resource is Bowdoin (I am going to assume this is some sort of university)
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/001331.shtml
This article is interesting for a precise research assignment in that explores issues of race in a specific manner discussing stereotyping races with certain diseases, such as AIDS and SARS

The name of the resource is the Washington D.C Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial
http://www.mlkmemorial.org/
This is the official website for Martin Luther King Jr. It is helpful to get the full story of MLK, and the chronology of the events that occurred with regards to civil rights in his time.

Lab for March 1st- Prominent African-American spokesperson

2005-03-01T12:32:00.000-08:00

From: The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:1:./temp/~pp_ox1s::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
Explanation:
This is an excellent picture of one of the most inspirational and probably the most recognized African-American spokesperson, Martin Luther King Jr. This image of him was taken during his speech in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Although this image is not of his famous, “I have a dream” delivered in Washington, D.C I feel that the image shows the passion that he felt towards every speech he made and for the cause that he was fighting.

From: google.com
URL: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm
Explanation:
This site is excellent. It begins with an excellent picture of Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his most famous speech in Washington D.C, “I have a dream”. The site provides two other great pictures along with the entire text of the speech and a sound file which plays the speech.

From: google.com
URL: http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/king.html
Explanation:
This site provides a good amount of information on Martin Luther King Jr. and also provides several other links for more information. The reason why I chose this site is because, if you scroll down to ‘E-texts/Realtime videos’, you can select a video to watch the actual speech that Martin Luther King gave.

race and ethnicity in the media..DISREGARD PREVIOUS POST

2005-03-01T12:31:00.000-08:00

The following links lead to images that are closely related to race and ethnicity in the media:

The Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama: March 7, 1965:
GOOGLE: http://www.africanamericans.com/SelmaMarchMartinCoretta.jpg
THE OPEN VIDEO PROJECT: http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3603

The Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, 1992 :
GOOGLE:http://www.aaregistry.com/eimage/LARiots1992.gif

Speeches by prominent African-American spokespersons
GOOGLE:http://www.fen-net.de/er/hedayati/strassen_und_namen/bilder/604g.jpg
Berkeley SunSITE: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Speech/VideoTest/africanamvid2.html

Some useful sites:
GOOGLE: http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/850/Rodney_King_riots_erupt_in_Los_Angeles
this site goes into detail about some of the events that happened during the king riots in Los Angeles. It is a nice brief article about the event in 1992 and is not too lengthy, it highlights important details and is a nice short read.

GOOGLE:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm
this site presents an article that informs the public about the Selma to Montgomery march. I liked this site because it had graphics and links to other sites that furtehr explain the event sof that day.
-alica

Pt. 2- Sites related to lab theme

2005-03-01T12:29:00.001-08:00

We found sites related to the labs theme of constructions of race and ethnicity in media. The sites related to this topic include:
http://www.crge.umd.edu/resources/citations.htm
This site is full of articles that examine race and ethnicity in media. This website is a good place to start and to find research about the topic as a whole before moving onwards and examing all other areas and subtopics.
http://www.ircruise.com/stasis/sprace.htm
This website is all about race and racism within pop culture. It focuses on modern shows and the portrayal of race and ethnicities within them.
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/features/black.htm
This website is again a focus of race and ethnicity and media with a focus on the portrayal of African Americans in cinema and the effects of neo realism. This website is good for those examining direct links between film and race and ethnicity.

Mitchell Steinburg and Rob Stewart

Lab for Tuesday, March 1st, 2005.

2005-03-01T12:29:00.000-08:00

Ethnic and Racial Images in the Media

Lab for Tuesday March 1st, 2005.

1. Let Us Break Bread Together (Part II) (1954)

How a New York City school district promoted racial integration and intergroup tolerance. 13:00 mins length.
http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3972
Found using "The Open Video Project". Is of a sizeable length for a movie file, and fits the criteria of portrayals of racial and ethnic cultures in North America. Easy to locate, and easy to find similar subjects in online movie format.

2. I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.

Audio recording of speech during the Civil Rights rally on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=MLKDream
Found using the "Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room". Pertains to the subject criteria of speeches by prominent African-American spokespersons.

3. The Selma to Montgomery March

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.africanamericans.com/SelmaMarchMartinCoretta.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.africanamericans.com/SelmaMarch.htm&h=258&w=350&sz=24&tbnid=n_FhU7lPWNgJ:&tbnh=85&tbnw=115&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522selma%2Bto%2Bmontgomery%2Bmarch%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
Found using the Google search engine, on AfricanAmericans.com. Pertinent to search criteria, and allows exploration of similar mediums and subject matter.
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More Sites Pertinent to theme of Constructions of Race and Ethnicity in the Media:

1. THE BLACK IMAGE IN THE WHITE MIND: MEDIA AND RACE IN AMERICA
http://www.raceandmedia.com/
Discusses statistics in racial media profiling, mostly through television. Used Google search engine.

2. THE IMPACT AND INVOLVEMENT OF RACE IN THE MEDIA
http://racerelations.about.com/od/raceandmedia/
Offers links to subcategories such as "Race and Television" , "Race and Literature", "Race and Music", "Race and Art" and so forth.
Very high search recall and precision. Used Google search engine.

3. ARTICLES ON MEDIA: GENDER AND RACE
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/contents/gender.html
Offers links to four different articles relating to the given subject matter. All articles relating to a figurehead of knowledgeable background (PhD, Association member, etc.)
Used Google search engine.

Martin Luther King Memorial Webcast

2005-03-01T12:27:00.000-08:00

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Webcasts - Yolanda King ( reciting her speech on January 17, 2005) : 46 min.

http://www.northwestern.edu/mlk/webarchive.html
This website includes various speakers on Martin Luther King Jr. Day from many different years, including this year's whose Keynote speaker was Yolanda King. This is a good video because it shows her full speech and it is very informative to viewers. This url (http://www.northwestern.edu/mlk/speaker.html) has a short, but detailed biography of Yolanda King and explains some of her goals and interests.

By: Kali & Amy

Portrayals of racial and ethnic cultures in North America: Pictures, Videos, Audio, and Websites

2005-03-01T12:23:00.001-08:00

MULTIMEDIA SOURCES:

TITLE: Around the World in New York (1940)
Views of immigrant and ethnic communities in New York City.
Genre: Ephemeral
Keywords: New York City;Immigration;Chinese Americans

This is a video about the how the various ethnic communities in New York City are viewed. I think it would be particularily useful as it is a portrayal of racial and ethnic communities in a big city that embraces immigration to increase its poplulation

TITLE: Negro girl pelted by crowd
African American high school student, Dorothy Geraldine Counts and her escort, Dr. R.A. Hawkins are jeered and pelted with sticks and stones by a crowd of white students after she enrolled in Harding High School, Charlotte, North Carolina.

CALL NUMBER: NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--Education--Segregation--North Carolina [item] [P&P]

This image like the first is another direct portrayal of a racial minority and how this person as a minority is treated in a specific instance by the other racial group around her.

TITLE: I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.
AUTHOR: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This is an audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving the "I Have a Dream" speech during the Civil Rights rally on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.

It might seem like a cop-out to rely on the famous and consequently most used speech when it comes to discussing african-american rights, but when you think about it, there's a reason why it has stood the test of time. King's strong and passionate delivery moved crowds in 1963 and is still moving them today. It may be a standard audio clip, but it's still the best we have.

"Selma Videos" Alabama: Focus on Civil Rights. The University of Alabama

This video shows images of Martin Luther King Jr. as he walks across a bridge amongst the hundreds of others who are marching and singing with him. It then cuts to 2 young African-American women as tell tells their stories of the events. They were only children during the movement that helped get the African-American Vote. They describe the situation the way they perceived it as children, and what it means to them now.

GOOGLE SOURCES:

Le, C. N. “Asian Nation” (2005) Online. 1 March 2005
<http://www.asian-nation.org>.

This website provides a unique view from the Asian community in North America. This is opposed to the traditional view we receive where it is an outsider providing insight onto a culture other than their own. Through this site we are able to gain further insight into the way this specific racial minority feels within their new surroundings. Also it allows us to see what they as a culture feel is important and needs to be dealt with.

Sabo, Don, Sue Curry Jansen, Danny Tate, Margaret Carlisle Duncan, Susan Leggett. "The Portrayal of Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in Televised International Athletic Events." (Nov. 1995). Online, 1 Mar. 2005
<http://www.aafla.org/9arr/ResearchReports/ResearchReport4_.htm>.

The article here is extremely comprehensive. It not only has detailed description and well articulated points about how ethnic and racial groups are portrayed in televised sporting events, but it also has in depth charts and statistics to back up the claims made. It looks not only at athletes on the field either, but the news programs covering the events and the announcers commentating on the game. An excellent article… found on Google.com… Sociological Abstracts, eat your heart out.

March, Tom. "Patchwork of African-American Life" Education First – Black History. <http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html>.

In keeping with the theme of African-American history, this website contains links to sites that talk about individual movements in the African-American struggle for human rights and an end to slavery and oppression. It contains not only descriptions of the events, but time lines and interactive guides to help in researching the issue.

By: Alex Paterson, Bryan Causarano, Cole Thorsen

Lab for March 1st

2005-03-01T12:23:00.000-08:00

Here are some useful links regarding Ethnic and Racial images in the Media:
PART 1:

Video #1
When Will it End: The Fight for Equality in America.
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=opensource_movies&collectionid=Paul

This video shows contrast of lifestyles and equality that exists in America.

Video #2
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- Speeches, Interviews, & Video Footage
http://www.mediachannel.com/special/mlk2.htm

This page on the media channel site provides various links to videos of Dr. King’s speeches and interviews. I choose this site because it seems like a good starting point for a person that is looking for videos relating to the topic.

PART 2:

Link#1
Movies, Race, and Ethnicity
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EthnicImagesVid.html
This site provides link to various videos on the topic of ethnicity and racial representations in movies.

Link#2
Popular Culture – Race and Ethnicity
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/race.html#general
This site provides links to General sites, Online Articles, and Bibliographies for information on the topic of Race and Ethnicity.

Speeches from Prominent African American Figures

2005-03-01T12:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

This website consists of the American Rhetoric's top 100 speeches. This website contains the speeches by many prominent African American figures. This website is good for thsoe researching all of the different speeches that helped to change the racial issues in the world.

Rob Stewart and Mitch Steinburg

Lab - March 1st

2005-03-01T12:19:00.000-08:00

1) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c26848
"Some of the 300 Selma to Montgomery marchers stop for a break"
I choose this image because it shows the marchers specifically as they take a break.

2) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c27735
"Martin Luther King, Jr. pictured in crowd at the end of the Selma-Montgomery Rights March, Montgomery, Alabama"
I choose this image because not only does it picture the the Selma to Montgomery Rights March, it also shows a prominant African-American spokesperson, who many people recognize (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Google Search
1) http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/
"University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies"
This website containes many useful links to other sites that talk about race and ethnicity in the media, it provides you a choice of headings to search under.

2) http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/race.html
"Popular Culture - Race and Ethnicity Issues"
this website has many links to articles that discussrace and ethnicity issues. It includes online articles, general sites and a bibliography helpful for citing works.

images and audio files depicting racial and ethnic cultures

2005-03-01T12:17:00.000-08:00

1.
URL: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/mlk/mlkbig.jpg
This image was found on Google in association with the South Coast Today newspaper. This is an image of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream Speech" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C (1963.) We selected it as it shows one of the most important, memorable and influential speeches by a prominent African American man in our recent history. When one thinks about the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Luther King Jr. instantly comes to mind, and more specifically, this famous speech, which the image helps to depict. Not only is it a recongnizable image but a powerful one as well and it seems very relevant to include when searching on the topic of speeches by African American spokespersons.

2.
URL: http://www.lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/
This image was found on the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room website. It is an image of a group of African Americans participating in the Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama (3/7/1965.) We selected this image because it is a good representative of those who participated in the march. It depicts African Americans and white people marching together, with a slew of American flags, all for the same cause: equality for all. We especially liked the image as it shows the faces of some of the marchers which helps one to put a face to those involved in such a significant event. Men, women and children of all ages and race were involved and this picture helps to portray that. But mainly, it shows a peaceful march for the freedom of African Americans which greatly impacted the civil rights movement of the 1960s which is why we chose to include it.

3.
URL: http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/index.htm
These audio files were found on Google as part of a larger site which gives one the opportunity to hear the influential speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. We chose to include the speeches of Malcolm X, a prominent player in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Malcolm X not only helped to drive the civil rights movement with his powerful speeches asking his fellow African Americans to fight against unfair oppression, but also was a prominent player in organizing marches, demonstations and speeches of significant African Americans such as Martin Luther King. We felt that his trademark speeches were important to include and this website makes it very easy to listen to his most famous ones.

-posted by Robyn Mitchell and Katie Shaver-

Speeches by African-American Spokespersons

2005-03-01T12:16:00.000-08:00

Prominent African American Figures...

http://www.mlkmemorial.org/index.htm
This site is dedicated to continuing and furthuring the dream of Martin Luthur King Jr. with a theme entitled 'build the dream'. The opening of the website provides the viewer with streaming images of historical events and people as well as influencial phrases and messages endorsed by Martin Luthur King Jr. with commentary by Morgan Freeman. This site would be useful to someone researching prominent african-american figures because it provides a slide show of images of Martin Luthur and the world he attempted to influence.

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=democracy_now&collectionid=dn2003-02-21.mp3f
This site provides a sound clip of Malcolm X's speech "The Ballot or the Bullet" based on his fight for democracy. This web site would be useful to someone researching this topic because its actual primary source of a very influencial and controversial african-american figure speaking about his plight to end violence and encourage a democratic system. This would make for a very credible source because it is an actual historic recording of what was actually said which is important because many historical facts can be misintrepreted or forgotten.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,
lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc:0:./temp/~pp_xcbl:

This site contains images of the activist Frederick Douglass who fought for liberty and freedom. It would be useful for research because it contains several pictures and images of Frederick Douglass as well as the housing projects he attempted to create and maintain. The images tell the story of the man as well as the people he fought to protect and help through his cause.

2005-03-01T12:15:00.000-08:00

URL:
http://fushionanomaly.net/losangeles.html
Found in the Google Database

This website is dedicated to images and one perspective about the Rodney King riots that happened in Los Angeles. The photos are good as they give an accurate portrayal of how the riots happened and how the media ended up using these images within society. This website is perfect for the portrayal of those riots within the mass media and studying this portrayal.

Rob Stewart, and Mitchell Steinburg

Image, sound and video search [March 1,2005 Lab]

2005-03-01T12:12:00.000-08:00

Speeches by prominent African-American spokespersons

The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=MLKDream
An audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.
It gives a clear example of the ideas that emerged during his time and is a good sample of King's doctrine.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:74:./temp/~pp_1qxZ::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc
A photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Delivering his speech
This presents an idea of what King looks like, and gives us an idea to his appearance. Also, this is a photo of him during a speech, this shows how he incorporates movements to enforce his ideas.

Google searches on Martin Luther King Memorial Day webcasts

Valencia Community College
http://media.valenciacc.edu/speech/MLK_I_Have_A_Dream.wmv
A short clip on the famous speech, "I have a dream"

Pennsylvania State University
http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/k-12/units/persuasion/MartinlutherKing.Mov
A short clip of Martin Luther Day and his speech on Memorial Day.

Constructions of race and ethnicity in media

The University of Iowa
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/tvfilm_txt.html
This site not only provides useful information concerning the topic. It also provides a hybrid of links that support the research of this topic.

SAGE Publications
http://jci.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/29/1/47
An article of the construction of ethnic minorities in the newspaper, and also the impact this has on the environment. This site also has search engine for other related articles.

LAB: TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2005 3pm

2005-03-01T12:09:00.000-08:00

1)
1.Rodney King and the L.A. Riots
http://www.philsch.k12.pa.us/schools/bodine/webclass2004/willusholmes/rking.html
This site explains how and why the riot started in the first place. I like this site because it explains us the reason why the riots started along with pictures. Also, I like the way they explain briefly.

2.Los Angeles Riots - Times Cover
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101920511,00.html
This was the cover for the times in May. 11, 1992. I like this site because of what it says on the cover "Can we all get along?"

2)
1.Money,Media and The Asian American Image
http://goldsea.com/Mediawatch/Moneymedia/moneymedia.html
If the mass media is the mirror of American society, Asian Americans could have claimed ghost status. We can help change it by wielding our consumer clout. I like this site because it describes how asian americans are viewed by public very well.

2.race and media
http://www.raceandmedia.com
It's site a site devoted to a book called 'The black image in the white mind'. This site shows us the researches they did watching TV commercials and such.

posted by Ho-Yul Lee

Race & Ethnicity in the media- (images/web pages)

2005-03-01T12:07:00.000-08:00

The following links lead to images that can be related to race and ethnicity in the media, some links are just the pictures themselves, while the others also include the websites:

http://www.crge.umd.edu/images/black1.jpg
http://www.al-sahafa.us/MakingNews-GreaterClevelandRoundtable.htm
http://www.takingitglobal.org/images/understanding/topics/Ethnicity-and-Race.jpg
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/l/leeder/pics/mark.jpg

Here are a few more websites that I found useful:
http://www.epiic.com/archives/2001/sympos01/friday/GlobalMedia01.html
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/advertising.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/race.html
http://www.iamhist.org/

-alica :)

Video of "Views of immigrants and ethnic communities in NY City"

2005-03-01T12:05:00.000-08:00

The site is found in The Open Video Project is located at the URL:
http://www.open-video.org/details.php?videoid=3521

This website is good as it is focusing a video surrounding one community, and the ethnicities within it. This video would be good for study about ethnicity and diversity in a metropolis.

Mitch Steinburg and Rob Stewart