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Research Project on a Graphic Designer: Blogs and Wikipedia

Wikipedia is Useful

While Wikipedia remains an unauthoritative resource and should not be cited it can be useful for your background research.

  • Can help you find key words to use when searching library databases
  • A list of links in the bibliography can be used as reliable sources that you can cite.

For example a look at a Wikipedia entry on Shepard Fairey reveals several links at the bottom of the page which could be useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to References and here you will find a list of linked sources you can use. number 25 is a biography

Biography of Shepard Fairey

 

 

Blogs

A blog is an informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Images of the artist's work are often placed in blogs. The term \"blog\" was coined by Jon Barger in 1997 and popularized by Evan Williams in 1999.

The information you may find in blogs could be images, interviews, or viewpoints on the art's work.

Why Use a Blog?

 With blogs, scholars get a chance to let a broader public get a glimpse of ideas as they form, and see how scholars test things out in an environment more open and forgiving than a professional presentation or publication. Blogs also allow scholars a venue for educating a broader public.