{"id":38,"date":"2022-03-15T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geog.space\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:26:34","slug":"your-literature-review-is-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geog.space\/blog\/your-literature-review-is-awkward\/","title":{"rendered":"Your literature review is awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You want your literature review to point towards the major gap in the literature or the major argument.&nbsp; You want to situate your study with the disciplinary context.&nbsp; There are a few frequent mistakes students make in regard to the literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Your literature review is already really out of date<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The modern internet is fairly recent, and the shift from web 1.0 to Web 2.0 changed the way information (and particularly mobile\/locational information) circulates around 2003. Facebook has only existed since 2004, iphone has only been in existence since 2008, and smartphones\/camera phones were not all that common before 2010.&nbsp; So, relying on sources from 2003 to discuss \u201csocial networks\u201d or a book from 2007 to discuss photos on instagram (which was only introduced in 2010), is an immediate red flag.&nbsp; This often happens with using books, which are easy to find, but when discussing digital technology, they end up out of date quickly.&nbsp; Regardless of what the specific intersection in geography is, there likely have been articles in that area published in this area since then.&nbsp; For example there are lots of articles about COVID and social media, but what you will find entirely depends on your keywords or specific intersection since then.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Your literature review missed all the geography articles in your area<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This often happens when you don\u2019t use the right keywords or depend heavily on Google Scholar to get your journal articles. Google scholar has a purpose in finding unique\/unpublished works, it is probably not your best source for figuring out what your keywords should be.&nbsp;&nbsp;Google Scholar will often return obscure conference publications and trade magazines which may not be peer reviewed (e.g. an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/openview\/2f92c6bec06d3f5d198e2474518494f5\/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;cbl=41269\">Cereal Foods World<\/a> should not be the only source you to discuss geopolitics in former Soviet countries) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try using Web of Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.webofknowledge.com.ezphost.dur.ac.uk\/\">http:\/\/apps.webofknowledge.com.ezphost.dur.ac.uk\/<\/a>) and filter your search for articles from Geography, Urban Studies, Physical Geography, Human Geography, etc&#8230; and then sort the articles by the most cited. If you are only finding articles that are old or out of date, sort by most recently published.&nbsp; Use the relevant papers from both of those searches to find the most pressing keywords and most relevant articles in the field.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Avoid using the phrase \u201cnobody has ever looked at the intersection of Geography and &#8230;\u201d <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally this claim is used when a student has been unable to find the literature looking at their specific area.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t mean that it hasn\u2019t been done.&nbsp; Try looking at the phrase \u201cdigital\u201d instead of \u201csocial media\u201d or try different keywords.&nbsp; Or, critique the few papers that do exist as evidence of the absence, rather than a broad claim that can easily be knocked down.&nbsp;This is also true for claiming <strong><em>\u201cGeography has largely ignored the impact of social media and &#8230;\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>Because even if geographers have not covered this exact niche, perhaps sociologists, anthropologists, or a related discipline has covered it.  Let&#8217;s say you were studying the production of scent and social media (which has never been covered by a geographer), you are better at stating something like: &#8220;Geographers have examined the role of smell in landscape and memory (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utpjournals.press\/doi\/abs\/10.3138\/carto.44.4.237?journalCode=cart\">Hoover, 2009<\/a>) as well as the digital spaces emerging from social media (<a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.ncl.ac.uk\/file_store\/production\/223990\/2FBC2E1A-07A8-4371-9CDC-568E2D6330D3.pdf\">Ash, Kitchin, Leszczynski, 2016<\/a>), but the focus on smells in material space has left gap in understanding the spaces of online smells.  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