Subject headings allow you to search for resources on a particular author or topic and are often more productive than keyword searches.
Keyword searches work best if you have multiple concepts or topics and need only a few books.
For a comprehensive subject search, search with subject headings as well as keywords.
Searching Omni
Start with a keyword search, but expect to revise it.
Keyword Searching TIPS
Search Technique |
What It Does |
quotation marks |
Searches for exact phrase |
Truncation * |
Searches for all forms of a word |
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) |
Lets you broaden or narrow your search |
Sociology | HM - HT |
Cultural Sociology | HM 621 |
Digital media | HM 851 |
Media and Society | HM 1206 |
HM742 .S6281963 2014
Scholarly handbooks like this are a good place to learn about the major questions and state of scholarly research around a particular topic
It's Show Time: Media, Politics and Popular Culture
P94.65.U6 I88 2000
Media & Cultural Theory
P94.6 .M4 2006
Media Studies Reader
P91.25 .M3755 2013
Public modalities : Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life
JA75.7 .P83 2010