Searching for .gov:
Search Engine Used: Google
Search Strategy Used: (workplace privacy) site: .gov
Website chosen: http://www.eeoc.gov/
The title of the website is the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; it is responsible for enforcing federal laws and gives the expertise to laymen to understand their rights under the law. It is updated continually, and is written by the EEOC Commission; therefore its contents are relevant and timely.
Searching for .com:
Search Engine Used: Google
Search Strategy Used: (workplace privacy) site: .com
Website chosen: EPIC.com (Electronic Provacy Information Center)
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington DC. They have no clients, customers or shareholders, so they are unbiased. The information they publish is up-to-date and current (they even have a section on their site about full body scanning in airports-this is new since December 2009). They publish a newsletter that is award winning on civil liberties in the electronic age.
Searching for .edu:
Search Engine Used: Google
Search Strategy Used: (workplace privacy) site: .edu
Website chosen: www.law.du.edu/ University of Denver
The Privacy Foundation was created at University of Denver and publishes research findings on its website that is accessible to professionals nationwide on different topics of privacy. They tout themselves as a dedicated, reliable advocate for privacy.
Searching for .org:
Search Engine Used: Google
Search Strategy Used: (workplace privacy) site: .org
Website chosen: privacyrights.org
This website bills itself as a Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. They have automatic email alerts (as recently as Valentine's Day warning warning emails). Their main goal is to protect the public and make them aware of all the ways their privacy can be violated and to give them the tools needed to prevent this. There are no single authors listed on the website.
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Jessica,
ReplyDeleteYou found some interesting information with your search but I wondered why you chose to use parenthesis instead of quotation marks to set off your phrase. And I wonder if you would get different results if you did. Quotation marks are the Boolean operator for phrases. Parenthesis are for nesting...
for example: (green OR red)AND peppers
You might want to remember for future reference to look at the guidelines for citations. The assignment had a chart and you misses some. Usually your instructor will tell you what citation style to use. It changes depending on the discipline.
You missed the subject directory search and summary.
Good work on what you did. You are getting the hang of evaluation and that is the point!!
Sue