Activity 1

Here are some snapshots of my results when I googled the terms without any advance search strategies:

I found that for most the searches, the people that came up were Caucasians with the exception of the “leader” and “teacher” searches. This makes sense though because my location is in Canada, which is predominantly Caucasian population.

One thing I noticed was that the search for doctor only brought up images of men while the google for nurses only brought up images of women. These are stereotypes that I am surprised to see in 2017 while doing a search on Google in Canada.

Here are some of my new results after adding some advance search strategies:

I searched for teacher and added Canada as the location tag since in the original simple search, I had gotten a more multicultural result compared to the other searches. Once I added the Canada tag, I only got images of Caucasian teachers.

Next, I searched for doctor and added China as the location tag. Immediately, there was a big difference because I received images of Asian doctors instead.

Activity 2

I had a little trouble using the academic google search shown in Alan November’s article so I used Google Scholar instead, which is what I usually use when I am looking for an academic article. Other than that, I found the other searches pretty straight-forward.