Brainstorm for the best keywords for your comm & media research topic or idea

Use keywords or use subject terms found in library catalogs and databases. It is very helpful, for communication and media students, to search by:
journalist's name: eg: Christiane Amanpour, Barbara Frum, etc. type of media: television, radio, film or cinema, news magazine, newspaper, etc. gender: female, woman, women, gender, etc. region: Africa, South America, Asia, Middle East, Gulf, etc. career focus: journalist, broadcaster, reporter, director, producer, photojournalist, advertising, public relations, etc.
Use standard search techniques (remember Module 2?) to use keywords effectively in the library catalog, article databases and search engines: boolean logic: eg. women and journalist will search for items containing both words truncation: journalis* will search for journalist, journalism phrase searching: "female journalists"  will search for the words next to each other, as a phrase