The process that I used for finding my articles was a fairly easy one. With my research question being about the impact of censorship on children’s education, it was easy to find many different sources. I first decided to look for scholarly articles through the many different databases at the UNCW website. Academic Search Premier and ERIC were able to come up with many different articles to use. I simply skimmed through these and found the two that seemed the most appropriate. For my popular articles, I decided to do a google search for popular education magazines, and then searched their databases for appropriate articles. Once again, it was not a problem to find an abundance of information readily available.
Scholarly Articles
Olagunju, Amos O. “Harmonizing the Interests of Free Speech, Obscenity, and Child Pornography on Cyberspace: The New Roles of Parents, Technology and Legislations for Internet Safety.” The Regulation of Cyberspace: Balancing the Interests. March 2008. ERIC. Ebsco. Randall Library, University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 19 Nov. 2008. http://0-web.ebscohost.com.uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/ehost
Author: Amos Olagunju is a professor at St. Cloud State University. He works in the Department of Statistics and Computer Networking. He has many different scholarly articles all throughout the database dealing with online securities and other topics related.
Audience: This is a scholarly article that is aimed at other people who are interested in the scholarly aspect of online censorship. It is not intended for a fun read, instead aimed towards people who are looking to be educated on the topic.
Summary: This article is aimed strictly at the idea of censorship and regularity of the internet. He contends that parents and legislation should do everything in their power to help regulate what their children are able to access online. He claims that with proper legislation and online security devices, then parents should be able to help limit what there children are able to access.
Critical Comment and Relevance: This article is able to bring about many interesting statistics about the availability of many different items, such as child pornography, to children of all ages. The author is able to assess all the good and bad aspects of technology, and in the long run, says that technology is good so long as it is monitored.
Carr, David and Robert Davis. “The Lure of Evil: Exploring Moral Formation on the Dark Side of Literature and the Arts.” Journal of Philosophy of Education. February 2007: 95-112. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Randall Library, UNCW. 19 November 2008. http://0-web.ebscohost.com.uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/ehost
Author: David Carr is a professor at the University of Edinburgh. He works in the Moray House School of Education and has over 200 articles attributed to him in the database. Robert Davis is a professor at the University of Glasgow and works in the Faculty of Education. He is not quite as published as David Carr, but the database does still attribute over 50 articles to him.
Audience: The intended audience for this particular article is for anybody involved in the arts and literature of todays education. The authors intend to educate these scholars, as well as to persuade them that arguments for censorship are unsustainable.
Summary: The basis of this article is to persuade scholars from around the education universe that censorship of the arts and literature are unnecessary and detrimental to one’s education. The two authors look at certain books or pieces of art that have been prohibited and they state their arguments as to why these prohibitions are rediculous.
Critical Comment and Relevance: The main thing that I liked about this article was the way in which the authors went through and analyzed certain pieces of art and literature that have been banned. They do a great job explaining their reasoning as to why these banishments are unnecessary.
Popular Articles
G.L. “Do It Yourself Censors Strike.” American Libraries. November 2007. 19 November 2008. http://0-web.ebscohost.com.uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/ehost
Author: I was unable to ever find out what G.L stands for. However, this name is cited under many different popular articles written for many different journals.
Audience: This is a popular article that is written for anybody that wanted a short and interesting read. There are very few facts and statements that would appeal to a scholarly audience.
Summary: The basis of this article was to just summarize three different instances in which censorship had come up in libraries across the nation. The three instances showed books that patrons found to be to sexual and controversial to be in their libraries. The patrons would then check out the books and refuse to return them.
Critical Comment and Relevance: This article was interesting, yet it did not have a large amount of relevance to my topic. Even though it discussed censorship, it did not go into any sort of detail or express any kind of an opinion. This article was simple a news bulletin.
Panarese, Thomas. “A Lesson in Free Speech.” Education Week. July, 2008. 19 November 2008. www.edweek.org/
Author: Thomas Panarese is an English high school teacher in Virginia. He works with the youth who are subject to this topic, thus making him credible.
Audience: The intended audience of this popular article would be for anybody remotely interested in the use of censorship involving the education of our youth. This can be a good reading for anybody, whether they are scholars or not.
Summary: This article takes a strong stance against the use of censorship, but more so against the people who are involved in censoring. The article looks at a high school district who apologized for having a lesbian couple in the high school yearbook. The author voices his strong frustration about how the school board supported the argument for censorship as opposed to standing up and supporting their students.
Critical Comment and Relevance: This was my favorite article that I have used as of so far for this topic. The author made it very relevant by arguing for the fact that censorship is detrimental to the youth in our education system. He did a great job of voicing his opinion on the matter.
