Before you start more complex research, gain good, grounded background info on your topic.

1. Click the Gale Virtual Reference Library link below:

2. Do a basic search on your community.

A) You may have to try different words for the community or its members. 

Example: roller derby  Example: roller skaters

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B) You may have to do a search on a specific aspect of your community.

Example: In roller derby, traditional notions of femininity are challenged and also tattoos are common among members.  So I can can search on "femininity sports" or "tattoos"

3. Different books give you different flavors of information, so you you may want to use a couple books to give you a fuller understanding of your topic. 

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4. You can use these articles as sources for your project.  Also, scan the article for search words that you can use for future searches:

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5. Get citation info and save a stable link to the article so you can access it later:

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6. Use new concepts and words to do subsequent, more advanced searches for books, videos and articles

Advanced Google Searching

Use Google Advanced Search for power searching on the general web

• Note your ability to limit to one particular domain (.gov, .edu, .org):

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Suggested ways to search for sources and conversations from people within the deviant communities themselves:

1. Go to google.com

2. Type in the name of your community and one of the search words below.  You may have to try several different searches:

• blogs
• listservs
• forums
• chat rooms
• Reddit

examples:

roller derby blogs
roller derby chat rooms
roller skating forums

3. Also try searching for groups in https://www.facebook.com/groups/