FYS 560 - Economics of the Digital World and Human Society

1. What does it mean if a book is on course reserve?
2. How can you make an appointment with a research librarian?
3. How do you make requests for books and other things not at Bates?
4. Can LibrarySearch tell you whether an article is scholarly?

Take a look at the following sources:

1. Chen, M. Keith, Judith A. Chevalier, Peter E. Rossi, and Emily Oehlsen. 2019. “The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers.” Journal of Political Economy 127 (6): 2735–94. https://doi.org/10.1086/702171.

2. Rana, Preetika. 2024. “Have Uber and Lyft Finally Found a Way to Make Ride-Sharing Profitable? Getting There Has Been a Bumpy Ride.” The Wall Street Journal. Eastern Edition, February 15, 2024. https://search.proquest.com/docview/2926424392.

3. “How Does the Gig Economy Support Entrepreneurship?” 2024. https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/page-one-economics/2024/04/01/how-does-the-gig-economy-support-entrepreneurship.

4. Schor, Juliet, and William Attwood-Charles. 2020. After the Gig : How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back. University of California Press. https://librarysearch.bates.edu/permalink/01CBB_BCOLL/sav7i1/alma991005863636108044.

Evaluate on:

• Who wrote the source? What can you find out about their credentials? (If there is more than one author, you can look just at the first listed author.)
• What is the publication or publisher that published this source? Who do you think is its intended audience? Who might read it and why?
• What kinds of documentation/citation of evidence appear in the source?
• What does the source tell you about the methods or data used to create the source?

Discussion

• Which fits the category of "academic source"?
• Any of these sources could have a use. In what ways is the source you looked at useful? Why would you read one or the other?