Online Sources
Good Sources
These types of online source are generally good sources of information and support for your projects:
- Articles in scholarly or professional journals:
Michael White, "Johannes Baader's Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama: the Mysticism of the Mass Media" (also available in PDF)
- Articles by an expert on an institutional (reputable) website:
Marjorie Perloff, "Dada without Duchamp / Duchamp without Dada: Avant-garde tradition and the Individual Talent"
- Interviews with experts on the subject (or insiders):
Interview with John Cage by Paul Cummings
Note also that part of what suggests the value of the Cage interview is that we find it stored on a good institutional website
- Primary sources (e.g., a historical document stored on a reliable website):
Blindman, no. 2 (New York, May 1917)
(Note the well-designed sitenav at the top of the Blindman page)
Not Good Sources for Citation
These types of online source may prove helpful as you begin to research a topic, suggesting directions for further research, but generally they are not good sources of information and support for your work, and you should not cite them or use them.
- A personal site on a subject: Dada Online
- An online encyclopedia entry: Wikepedia entry on Dada
- An online news story: "Dada on Display at the National Gallery of Art"
In what cases, however, might sources of these kinds be good sources?
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