Research Journal Assignment #6

RJA #6a: Periodical Articles:

RJA #6b: Search Strings: - i didn't receive any comments on that particular blog

RJA #6c: Protopage:

http://www.protopage.com/chrisgoodwin

Research Journal Assignment #5

RJA #5a:

Citizendium (09/17/09)

Keywords searched: internet downloading, music industry
Hits: 5
Hit relevance: 4

Article Found:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Content_delivery_and_distributed_file_sharing_networks

In this online article I found information on the following subtopics within my topic:

1.) Legal, Ethical, and Business issues
2.) protocol architecture for peer to peer (p2p) websites; how they work.
3.) business models for p2p websites like bit torrents
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Debatepedia (09/17/09)

Keywords searched: music downloading, file sharing
Hits: 2 article title matches and tons of page text matches
Hit relevance: 5 (this website seems to be a very good resource for finding out what kind of arguments are already out there on my topic)

Article Found:
http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/Debate:_File-sharing

In this online article I found the following information on my topic:

1.) Arguments regarding the listener's benefits of file sharing
2.) Arguments as to whether file sharing is copyright infringement
3.) The artistic aspect of music; Is music art or a business?
4.) Do artists benefit from file sharing? What kind of artists (major label or independent) are affected most?
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Scholarpedia (09/17/09)

Keywords searched: music downloading, file sharing, music industry
Hits: 0

*not sure if I am doing something wrong but each phrase/keyword search I input comes up empty handed.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (09/17/09)

Keywords searched: file sharing
Hits: 23
Hit relevance: 4.5

http://0-go.galegroup.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ps/basicSearch.do?inputFieldValue(0)=file+sharing&inputFieldName(0)=KE&searchType=BasicSearchForm&sgHitCountType=None&userGroupName=auraria_main&nwf=y&prodId=GVRL&method=doSearch

In my search results I found the following information on my topic:

1.) Piracy and sharing
2.) articles on specific p2p sites such as Napster/Kazaa
3.) The artistic aspect of music; Is music art or a business?
4.) Is free and unlimited file sharing good for society?
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RJA #5b:

Keywords searched: internet piracy music
Hits: 950
Hit relevance: all over the board...some were completely unrelevant

• By M. William Krasilovsky, Sidney Shemel, John M. Gross
• This Business of Music: The Definitive Guide to the Music Industry
• 9th Edition
  
• New York, NY
  
• Billboard Books
  
• 2003

• By M. William Krasilovsky, Sidney Shemel, John M. Gross
• The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy
  
• 9th Edition
  
• New York, NY
  
• Billboard Books
  
• 2003

RJA #5c: Search String Check

http://meganwallace1020blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4a-generating-keywords.html

http://seansschoolblog1.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4a.html

#3a: Exploring Research Topic

Where I've been and what I've found:

This is an article/paper I discovered on Google: Scholar which sets up different mathematical models to describe the music market when downloading is possible and when it is not.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8P-4HSXYD7-1&_user=914312&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=999947640&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000047910&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=914312&md5=de3ec73b48b36d46fca125fcbe8e3fb4

This is a paper that was written by an economics student at the University of Chicago; also found on Google: Scholar. In it he looks at the roots of the internet piracy phenomenon of the late 90s- early 2000s with sites such as Napster and KaZaa.

http://economics.uchicago.edu/download/musicindustryoct12.pdf


This blog includes information about a study where 204 college students were monitored to better understand their illegal downloading activities. Students where also given an anonymous survey to answer.

http://www.scitechbits.com/2009/08/26/to-buy-or-to-pirate-get-a-clue-riaa/