Media and Cultural Studies
Resources for Media and Cultural Studies
Media and Cultural Studies definitions and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
Online dictionaries and encyclopedias
Print dictionaries and encyclopedias
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Cultural Theory: The key concepts
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306/234
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Dictionary of media and communication studies
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302.203/3
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A glossary of cultural theory
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306.03/5
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International encyclopedia of communications
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302.203/1
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The Sage dictionary of cultural studies
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306/311
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St James encyclopedia of popular culture
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973.9/20
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
culture AND dictionar**
culture AND encyclop**
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. cultur** will retrieve culture, cultures, cultural, culturally
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Media and Cultural Studies books and more
Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, DVDs, CDs
If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. music AND culture
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. cultur** will retrieve culture, cultures, cultural, culturally
Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. music AND culture AND identity
OR
Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Media and Cultural Studies journal articles
Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, research reports and newspaper articles
Try these first
Complete list of Arts databases
Found a useful reference?
Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.
Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. media AND audience
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. audience OR viewer
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword. Symbols vary between databases
e.g. view* retrieves view, viewer, viewers, viewing.
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial
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Media and Cultural Studies Internet sites
It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.
Try the following sites as a starting point.
Useful sites
Search engines
Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.
Try these first:
Directories
Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
UOW sites
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