Background - ENGCMP 1250: Professional Uses of Social Media - Oakland Campus

Context

Use statistics and company overviews to place your platform in context. Use the communications database for a media approach to your platform. Use PittCat to find 'limitations' on the craft of your platform.

Statistics

Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources.
American Census Data This link opens in a new window
Primary way to access Census Bureau data, including releases from the 2018 American Community Survey, 2017 Economic Census, 2020 Census and more. Use data.census.gov to view, print, and download statistics about population, housing, industry, and business.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Social Explorer is mainly an interactive map of demographic information drawn from the US Census. Users can examine geographic areas while selecting the type of data to be shown, such as population density or income level. Note: Creation of a Personal Account is required to fully access all Social Explorer features.

Communication Database

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) incorporates CommSearch produced by the National Communication Association and Mass Media Articles Index produced by Penn State.

PittCat

PittCat is the main searching tool for all of the materials owned by the University Library System (ULS), including articles, books, ebooks, journal articles, ejournals, audio and video, digital images, government documents, microfilm and movies.

PittCat
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ENGCMP 1250: Professional Uses of Social Media - Oakland Campus

Context

Statistics

Communication Database

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