Unit 6: Focus on Periodicals

-Question: Why is internet surveillance needed.
-Search statement used: Internet and Surveill*

-Popular Magazine
-Citation: Kim Zetter. "New technologies, laws threaten privacy. " PC World 1 Mar. 2002: Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 12 May. 2010.
-Annotation: I choose this article because it talks about new technology that deals with internet surveillance and reasons why it is needed and used. It talks about software know as Magic Latern which is Trojan horse program it is developing that will render encryption useless on a suspect's computer by logging the user's keystrokes. Coupled with laws that Congress passed following September 11th, Magic Lantern will give the agency unprecedented access to digital communications.

-Scholary Journal
-Citation:A James McAdams. "Internet Surveillance after September 11: Is the United States Becoming Great Britain? " Comparative Politics 37.4 (2005): 479. Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 12 May. 2010.
-Annotation: I choose this article because it talks about internet surveillance after terrorist attack on September 11. The war on terrorism has led the American government to make noteworthy changes in the balance it strikes between national security.

-Newspaper
-Citation: Chisun Lee. "'Red means big brother's in charge'. " The Village Voice 23 Apr. 2003, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 12 May. 2010.
-Annotation: I choose this article because it talk about internet surveillance. IF THE NATION WERE ACTUALLY TO REACH RED ALERT STATUS, ODDS ARE THE 'PRIVACY THREAT INDEX' COLOR CHART AT EPIC.ORG WOULD BE WIPED FROM THE VIRTUAL WORLD. RED MEANS THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS EVERYTHING, THE LIVES OF AMERICANS ONLINE AND OFF. AND THE WASHINGTON, D.C.-BASED ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (EPIC), A WATCHDOG GROUP FOCUSING ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY, IS A FREQUENT critic and courtroom challenger of the surveillance-minded Bush administration.

-Summary
In this unit I learned how to use ProQuest, EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier, and use search terms differently to get a broad or narrower result using booleans. I researched why is internet surveillance needed using theses different search terms & booleans
(internet surveill*)and needed: 3 documents founds,
internet and surveillance: 6248 documents found,
internet and surveillance of citizens: 89 documents founds
and that is my summary for unit 6