In the assignment, evaluate the website http://www.dhmo.org/, students are to critic the site for authenticity. When conducting such a task, one should proceed with caution because there are many false or bias sites on the World Wide Web. As a student of higher education, it is sensible to view all sites with a cautious mindset.
Today, anyone can create a website and market an idea or product with anonymity. There are no laws that require a person to be licensed or hold a credential to promote a product or idea. This has created a colossal problem. The problem has become one of sifting through a mass of advertising material and vanity publications in order to find information of high quality (Smith, 1997).
Johns Hopkins University and other higher learning institutions have come up with ways to recognize the validity of a website. It is a five step of validation and “three may be investigated by electronic means: Authorship, Publishing body and Currency (of the document itself)” (Johns Hopkins University, 2013).
The first one is Authorship. In this step, the researcher wan...
Did you know that almost everything you do on the internet is being tracked and recorded in some way? In the Article, George Orwell… Meet Mark Zuckerberg, by Lori Andrews, Andrews talks about how behavioral advertising, which is the tracking of consumer’s online activities in order to bring custom-made advertisements, is a topic that is concealed to many people and can cause damage. Search engines like Google store the searches you have made and in 2006 there were search logs released which had personal information that people were judged by (Andrews 716-717). Data aggregation is the main way Facebook makes its money. Andrews believes that it’s an invasion of privacy and is not known well enough by the public. This article is aimed at young and new internet users that are ignorant of the possible dangers on the web. Lori Andrews is successful at informing novice users about the dangers of behavioral
The internet is a hub of information. It is easy to access this information and resources by simple looking up a simple topic. How much of this information is actually true? In The New Yorker article “The Things People Say” author Elizabeth Kolbert explains the dangers of believing wholeheartedly the information given to us online. She uses logos to prove that the internet can be biased with information through “group polarization” and a site’s inability to upload contradictory information. She fails however with ethos in her paper because she is hypocritical.
middle of paper ... ... The websites are sites of contradictions, much like the anorexic psyche and body. They allow non-sufferers a new perspective on eating disorders, but also reveal some of the mixed messages presented everyday in popular culture.
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I used the search engines Google, Yahoo, and Hotbot to find these web pages. I also found many other web pages on other search engines pertaining to my essay subject, but only used the three pages shown above. I tried to use a wide variety of search engines to get a wide variety of search responses. I found that most search engines reproduce many of the same pages. Out of the search engines used, I found that Google was the easiest and had the most responses. Not all of these responses were valid, hence the reason for using more then one search engine. To determine the validity of the web pages used in my essay I researched the validity of the organization that posted the web page and the authors or journals the authors were writing for.
Information literacy is an important skill, and unfortunately one that many people lack. Recently, I evaluated the website www.DHMO.org. Although most of the information available on the website has merit, it was created as a hoax to bring light to the subject of information literacy in todays’ society. My evaluation of the website will prove that the website masks itself as a reputable source of information, but by researching the website itself, it becomes evident that it is in fact nothing more than a hoax.
As the Internet becomes more popular, Dot-coms also become more prosperous. And the pace of the world becomes faster as well. Nowadays, with these huge changes in information transmission, some nonmarket issues gradually appear in this new industry because of its characteristics of free-resource, high-speed and anonymity. In this case about HiMoney.com, this firm got two pressing nonmarket issues since it launched last year. One was concerning the conflicts between two groups in this year¡¦s presidential election in Taiwan. Another issue is targeting the free-resource in the Internet. A similar case that happened recently is Napster.com (a dot-com that provides software to let people download MP3 music for free). I¡¦ll talk about it later in detail.
The first thing most notable about this website was their sense of design. A black ebony background illuminated with old brush style text and decorative graphics, welcomes and invites the visitor to “Enter” their website. This particular idea is a very artistic way of getting people to interact with their website. It is studied that most people learn better by hands on interaction, instead of reading perhaps plain, boring text. The website is appealing and fairly easy to navigate within the various browsers....
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After visiting and examining the PBS Web site, I was able to conclude that it is an extremely successful entertainment and educational site. The Web site has won many substantial awards, including the prestigious "Webbie Award" in 1998 and 1999. According to a recent survey, fifty-six percent of users at the PBS Web site are male and sixty percent are between the ages of eighteen and forty-four. Forty-four percent of the Web site users have children and fifty-seven percent make online purchases. (Gallup/Plaw Release: Survey of 40,000 Internet Users. Fall 1998.)
Internet is a free platform where everyone can launch or release whatever they want to that market. With such characteristic of the Internet, the products, services or creations may, in a se...
Now that we are living in an ever changing world, technology is viewed as the most resourceful tool in keeping up with the pace. Without the use of technology, communication would be limited to using mail for delivery and encyclopedias for research. Although technology has improved the way we communicate and find information for research, the information is not always valid. Unfortunately, for those of us who use the internet for shopping, research, or reading articles of personal interest the information is not treated the same as a your magazine or book. While such literature is reviewed by an editorial staff, internet literature or information can be published by anyone. In order to reap the full benefit of having the use of technology for any purpose, there are five basic criteria’s one must keep in mind as an evaluating tool for deciding whether or not the particular website is a reliable source for information.
There has been a surprising change in society, which computer engineering has brought about . The Internet in particular is changing every activity of our daily lives. Today just about every advertisement on television, radio and in print carries a web address. It is not unusual for consumers to research a purchase on the Internet before buying. Websites offer thousands of pages of detailed information. Chat rooms and news groups attract many people with opinions t...
In recent times we might consider that the right for privacy in one of our major achievements in our society. Unfortunately the same does not apply for the Internet. The Internet once considered a place for free information exchange and sharing, has the potential has becoming the biggest threat to its users. The commercialization of the Internet is one of the major reasons why the chances of a compromise of our privacy have increased. Customer profiling, address trading or simple lack of care with sensitive customer information are just some of the threats that this commercialization has bought to our ‘free’ Internet. Another reason being that with the increase of threats there is a regular change in technology to counter these threats. These changes make it harder for the already overstrained users to cope with the ever changing technology.
...try to ensure Internet security. More practically, marketers must try to target consumer groups more accurately. Minimizing unwanted consumer contacts may reduce the intensity and visibility of some dimensions of privacy issues. Last, marketing researchers must attempt to define privacy operationally. Much has been said and written about consumer privacy, but we still have little understanding of what information consumers consider private, why they consider it private, and whether this set of information changes situationally or in response to other factors.