Evaluation of Scholarly Sources

I managed to find two scholarly sources that relate to my topic of censorship and trigger warnings and how they're affecting college campuses.

Source 1

After searching on JSTOR for way too long, I finally settled on an article about censorship and online privacy. 

Purpose: The purpose of this journal is to discuss the things that threaten our online liberties and freedoms. Privacy is a huge topic today in political and government based debates because individuals feel that their rights are being taken away. This relates to my topic because college students are being denied the right to learn what they want, and are being restricted so as not to offend those who may be sensitive to a particular topic. 

Publishing: This article was in "Rights" magazine, which is published by the American Bar Association. That means that this is published primarily for current and future lawyers. 

Citations: The article cites a lot of other law-based sources such as the Communications Decency Act and the Department of Justice. 

Author: Ann Beeson is a social justice lawyer who currently works for The Center for Public Policy Priorities in Texas. She is known by some as one of the best lawyers in the nation, so she is well qualified to be writing articles on censorship from a legal perspective. 

Audience: The intended audience, judging by where the article was published, is anyone in the field of law. The reader is expected to have more than a basic knowledge of law; they should be somewhat of an expert in the field. 

Found: I searched on the JSTOR website with the keywords "offensive content AND college". 

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Source 2

I found my second article on APA's PsycNET database. 

Purpose: The purpose is to inform people about the "harm thesis". This is the idea that words really do hurt, and can leave lasting impacts on people. The article focuses more on foul language rather than slurs, colloquial language, or trigger words.

Publishing: This article was published in "Psychology, Public Policy, and Law". This publication tries to relate psychology to law so as to inform lawyers of the most relevant knowledge in the field. 

Citations: I can't access the full text of the journal to see the citations, but the author most likely cites other psychology journals on the topic of the "harm thesis".

Author: Timothy Jay is a profesor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He has a doctorate in Cognitive Psychology, and another article that he wrote is entitled, "The Science of Swearing" (why didn't I choose that as my topic!). 

Audience: The intended audience here is lawyers who may have cases that relate to harmful language. It's interesting that both articles that I found are on different topics, yet both relate to and are intended for lawyers. 

Found: I used Google Scholar and searched "'College' AND 'offensive content'". This led me to an article connected to PsycNET.