Search Strategy

Search Topic
To find evidence supporting the following statement: Pornography is not harmful.

Database Selection
What are potential places for me to find information about pornography and the effects it has on the population?

• Psychology databases
• Sociology databases
• Newspaper databases

Search terms
Ultimately, these are just my beginning words. I would like to take these and expand them inside Dialog's info files to gather more and potentially better ways of describing these concepts. Some of these came from using a regular thesaurus, but I feel it would be best to get more terms from the databases since it is the best reflection of how the authors utilize language within context.

• pornography/porn (porn*)
• violent/violence (violen*)
• sexual and (misconduct or deviance)
• rape or molestation
• harm*
• sexual and (abuse or assault)
• sexual based crimes

Search Steps

• Expand promising search terms within Infofiles to get a good preliminary base of search words. This will also let me see how specific words may be combined.
• Considering my client is a high school junior, I want to work within Academic Search Premier at first to get the most digestible materials for him. If there is something in this database, it would be ideal.
• If not enough materials are collected for him, I will move on to psychology and sociology oriented databases to get a more subject-oriented response.
• Ultimately, I hope to see what the first batch of results brings and then I will move through another iteration. Since I am using the University's databases that do not charge per record, cost is not a concern and I can do this.
• I am assuming that a lot of records that will come back are going to be on the opposing side. If this is the case, I will seek keywords from the articles to use after studying the language to best phrase the topic at hand.
  
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