Internet Reliability and the Digital Divide

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Internet Reliability and the Digital Divide Today I will be discussing reliability of information found on the internet. Credibility of sites and their information citations, or lack of. As well as what digital divide means and how it can be bridged. Information reliability is a subject that all that uses the internet today must contend with. With so many sites being started daily and not all the information on them are back checked. Some can be agenda based or inflammatory in its writing. We must make sure to check the reliability of the sites we use. Sites like Wikipedia.com are prime examples of sites that people must be cautious when using for informational sources. This site can be edited by anyone without regard to proper citations or regard to correct portrayal of information. Credibility of a site can be determined by the source of the information being posted. Sites ending in .edu, .gov, and .org will have more creditable information. Most of these sites and their information are back checked with citations and direct links to their source of information. I find that .edu and .gov have the most reliable and creditable information of all three forms. .Com sites can be creditable but may need a more in-depth inspection of the information being portrayed, as most do not include citations for their information. Digital divide is the division of people and their individual acceptance of digital media. The divide occurs and can be observed on as tight a scale as the acceptance within a family unit, to as broad of a view as that between differing economically advanced countries. In some areas the divide can be overcome simply by monetary considerations. Such as putting the cost of digital devices low enough to be afforded by the lowest economical classes of a given country. Other barriers that can cause a divide is a lack of infrastructure in the

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