SO208: Visual Society
Background Information
Scholarly Articles
Selected Multimedia Databases and Websites
Background Information
For a quick overview of a topic or for a definition of an unfamiliar term, start here.
Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising [X] HF5803 .A38 2003
Encyclopedia of American Social History [X] HN57 .E63 2001
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion [X] GT507 .E53 2005
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture [X] E169.1 .S764 2000
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Searchable collection of over a hundred Oxford Reference books, including Art and Architecture and Sociology texts.
Search the Library Catalog for books on your topic. A small selection of suggested subject headings are listed below. Or you can try a keyword search to combine multiple terms.
Visual Perception
Visual Sociology
Visual Communication
Popular Culture
Subculture
Advertising Psychological Aspects
Consumer Behavior
Sex Role in Advertising
Scholarly Articles
Use these databases to locate scholarly articles on visual society and culture.
Academic OneFile
Contains 8,000 multi-disciplinary academic journals, the majority in full-textAcademic Search Premier
Includes social sciences, humanities, and business. You may also search this database with the subject headings listed above.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Citations and full text in all areas related to communication and mass media.JSTOR
Complete full-text back issues of hundreds of core journals in the Arts and Sciences
Selected Multimedia Databases and Websites
Databases
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
Contains hundreds of thousands of photos and graphics from the Associated Press, most taken since 1995, plus historical images dating back to the 1800s. 1995 to present.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Index of more than 30,000 evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. CNN Evening News since October 1995 can be viewed online. 5 Aug 1968 to present.
Websites
Ease History
Photographs and video clips of historical events in United States history from the early 1900s to the present, as well as presidential campaign ads from 1952-2004.
Internet Archive
Digital library of internet sites, moving images, live music recording, audio, texts, and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
NYPL Digital Gallery
Over 480,000 images digitized from New York Public Library collections, including architecture, fashion, maps, and photographs.
Please ask a librarian if you need help!
Created for Fall 2006 by James Capobianco
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