The editors at Wikipedia consist of volunteer editors, writers, and administrators who attempt consensus to ensure comprehensive, quality material is produced by the millions of worldwide contributors (Bernstein, 2011). New information is posted much more quickly than print resources, ensuring the most up-to-date information on any given subject. Another advantage of Wikipedia is easy access via the Internet. In today’s technology-laden world, access to an Internet connection is almost as common as restroom facilities. Providing students, researchers, and the public across the globe with a library that does not require a working knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System provides more opportunity for learning, collaboration, and connectivity.
Wikipedia – Valid Source? Katherine Deanne Simpson MGT521 February 27, 2012 Lloyd Krieger Wikipedia as a Valid Source Even though most posts on Wikipedia provide citations at the end of the article, Wikipedia is not a valid source of information for academic writing because the content provided on Wikipedia can be uploaded by any person and is not validated in any way prior to being uploaded. Though Wikipedia does check the information on its website, erroneous information is posted with no way to ensure its validity. Wikipedia Wikipedia describes itself as a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written by what
Low brow entertainment was at an all time high and it was never more publicized. Talk shows like Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake, and above all Jerry Springer thrived during the decade. Any sort of level of decency had been shattered and it was a free for all. Commercializing all events no matter how unfortunate separated the 90’s from other generations. It had never been possible to keep people posted with copious amounts of meaningless bullshit, but with the advent of the internet, marketers soon found a larger platform to entertain the masses.
The amount of data and free press is unprecedented and as someone who has grown up with such technology virtually constantly at my side it not difficult to immerse myself in this digital age and culture of limitless connectivity. For better or for worse, the internet has undoubtedly had an impact on my life. It can be, if you so wish it to be a wholly welcoming world – when you have the ability to contact the billions around the globe. They say that university is much different to high school in that now you are exposed to so many different people from such vastly varying backgrounds that it is hard to form the stereotypical clique and be as discriminatory. The internet is so much more than that.
A blog is a special space on the World Wide Web to share a topic, opinions, knowledge, etc where readers can make comments about the topic posted. Balter’s idea of blogging could have gone good or bad, depending on the use of the agents, but he took the risk to deliver truth and transparency. When Beelog was launched it had a great engagement with the agents, employees and etc, but as it went over its course, the bond was lost because the readers don’t feel transparency since the blogs seems to be too clever. As mentioned on the reading there are about 175,000 new blogs created daily, so to maintain the readers’ attention and engagement is extremely difficult. A dynamic Beelog could be a solution, where the blog’s author can add
Cody Janowski 12/2/10 English Comp Assignment 4 The Internet has undoubtedly changed the way people live their lives. Any information we could possibly want- and more- is at our disposal, and has made life for us incredibly convenient and easy; some, however, might say too easy. One of these people is Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” featured in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic. Carr argues that the Net seems to be slowly demolishing our abilities to concentrate on one subject, as well as contemplate information, based on the ease of access to everything the Internet provides today. I agree with Carr to an extent; however I would say that his theory most certainly does not apply to everyone.
Joseph Weisman English 112 Ms. Jennifer Hebert June 10, 2013 Unintelligent Internet Google is one of the most visited websites in the world and is the most popular search engine out on the Internet today. Google allows anyone with Internet availability to have nearly all of the information in the world at ones fingertips. Is all this power to search for things so quickly a good thing? Through the article by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid? He quickly expresses the fact that ever since the mainstream bring up of the internet people are beginning to loose attention spans because they simply have no patience.
Tevin Hutchinson 11/10/2012 English 102 Technology plays a huge role in our everyday life. I do believe that technology has made our lives easier, but it also has made us more dependent on the technology itself. When using the internet for a dictionary you could easily get distracted. Anyone can put anything on the internet, so what you find might not be accurate. Most people find that looking things up on the internet is distracting because you are already on the web so why not check YouTube for a funny video, or update your status on the social network.
At the surface, it seems like Google would be considered as a helpful research tool—pages and pages of information are just a few keystrokes away! However, Google has as many disadvantages and advantages. According to Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid, the search engine is changing the way he processes information. “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.
Sarah Kliff, author of “Facebook: Why I Hate it…” writes, “I have no idea how many hours of my life I have wasted on Facebook.” I agree with this statement because it is true. We have wasted so much time on Facebook and other forms of technology that we have lost time for other, more important things. Facebook and its counterparts do help us in many aspects like staying connected but we forget that we have real things in life that are right in front of us to stay in touch with instead of wasting time with cyber friends or a cyber-community. Technology does have a good side. It can assist us in many ways.