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1. Database Article 1:
a) Internet privacy, Government control Internet, Privacy is no guarantee
b) CCBC Library website
c) I chose this database because it was not biased and the information given was supported by an
experiment conducted.
d) MLA:
TUCKER, CATHERINE E. "Social Networks, Personalized Advertising, And Privacy Controls."
Journal Of Marketing Research (JMR) 51.5 (2014): 546-562. Business Source Premier. Web. 19 Apr.
2015.
e) MLA:
Kugler, Logan. "Online Privacy: Regional Differences." Communications Of The ACM 58.2 (2015):
18-20. Business Source Premier. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.
f) Screen Print #1- scholarly article #1

Screen Print #2- scholarly article #2

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Shaming Those Who Skip Out on Taxes

a) Due to Americans and their underpaid taxes last year, by $450 billion, the government is now
attemting to shame ta deliquents online through social networing. Due to the power the government
has, this is possible. However, not everyone owes the IRS because they chose not to pay their taxes,
there are people who are temporarily in a financial hardship and cannot afford to pay the IRS at the
time. For those facing a financial harship and attempting to become financially stable again, it is
questionable whether shaming these tax deliquents will hae an impact on their employment if searching
for a job. Regadless, tax deliquents will be shamed through social media by the invasion of their
privacy.
b) MLA:
Perez-truglia, Ricardo, and Ugo Troiano. "Shaming Those Who Skip Out on Taxes." The New York
Times. The New York Times, 14 Apr. 2015. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.
3. Name of Article:
a) Privacy, Internet Privacy Government control over the Internet
b) MLA:
"The Presidents Weak Privacy Proposal." The New York Times. The New York Times, 05 Mar. 2015.
Web. 19 Apr. 2015.
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4. TRAAP
a) April 15, 2015. No, it has not been updated because the article is current.
b) Yes, it relates to the topic of privacy. Publically shaming tax deliquents on social media is a privacy
concern.
c) Perez-truglia, Ricardo, and Ugo Troiano are the authors. The authors are qualified to write about this
topic because I retreived the article from NY Times, which is a reliable source.
d) Yes, the information is trustworthy. The information was supported by the United States Treasury
Department.
e) The purpose of this article could have been both to inform and persuade. It was informing of the new
rule that is being taken into consideration about public shming to tax deliquents, but it could also be
persuading the public to be against shaming those who owe in taxes due to the fact that it supports the
negative effects of public shaming, these negative effects stated could possibl be opinions however.
5. Compare the Internet and Journal articles
a) Personally, the internet article was easier to access as opposed to the database article because I am
not as familiar with searching databases as I am with internet search engines. It took me a moment to
navigate through the CCBC library website databases and depending on which keywords I used my
results were limited.. With internet search engines you type key words into the search bar and your
results are available immediately.
b) It was quicker to find articles through the database as opposed to the internet because database
articles are more scholarly. A lot of articles found on the internet are biased or may even be blogs.
However, I did encounter problems with my search results through the database when the keywords
were not precise enough.
c) The author of the database article is qualified to write about the topic because databases contain
scholarly articles, which are not based off of ones opinion but based off of statistics and studies. The
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author of the internet article is also qualified because when URL's contain .org, .edu, or are from a
news website the sources are reliable sources, not blogs or articles that can be edited by those who are
not qualified.