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Usually general encyclopedias, like Encyclopedia Britannica, come up first.  But then, you'll usually see a variety of more scholarly and subject-specific encyclopedias that provide different contexts for your topic.

For example, a search a on new media includes these results:

• Encyclopedia of Gender in Media
• Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
• Encyclopedia of Communication Theory

Articles in special encyclopedias that are especially valuable when starting a research project include:

• history
• overview
• major theories 
• major scholars
• bibliography of selected/recommended items.

Excerpts from the entry New Media, by Kathleen M. Endres in the Encyclopedia of Gender in Media [SAGE Knowledge database [online]:

• "New media is a fluid term. Today, it means the convergence of traditional media, including film, music, audio, and video, with the interactive power of the computer, cell phone, and other computer- and Internet-enabled gadgets. Tomorrow, the definition may shift as new technologies emerge and others fall from favor."
• The new media model of self-directed labor (self-employment, said to represent the future of work) has ramifications for women who work in the industry, but few scholars have examined the situation from a gender perspective.
• "Women have been excluded from the design and development of the computer hardware and software that make new media possible. Moreover, women have not been involved in the design and development of key new media Websites, specifically Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia."

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As part of the Hamline community, you have borrowing privileges from the following libraries using HamCAT: 

• Bush Library:  Borrow and Renew
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  • Concordia University
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  • St. Catherine University Libraries
  • University of Northwestern
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To search for books in the Hamline and MnPALS partner libraries, use HamCAT.  

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