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. According to the criteria for evaluating a website set forth by the University of California Berkeley, the
The internet is a great resource but this paper takes a critical look at the DHMO.org website, in particular, and looks at categories during this assessment that addresses specific critical tools in evaluating this web page specifically. Using primarily the web page evaluation checklist published by UC Berkeley1 and concurrently S.P.I.D.E.R.2 which is the acronym for Source, Purpose, Information, Domain, Educational, and Reliability. It takes you through how the web page evaluation checklist helped
Frege viewed language to function much like mathematics. He believed that we are able to describe things in natural language to be reducible to atomic sentences that are much like functions with variables. Frege goes into further detail to allow for language to be descriptive of things that exist in the world through presenting clarification between sense and reference. To Frege, names refer to objects, being much like numerals in functions that refer to exact values. Predicates are the functional
programs, such as CNN, cannot provide true, factual statements, then where are the people going to achieve this true, factual statements from? According to “Combating Fake News in the Digital Age” by Joanna Burkhardt, she mentioned several hoax websites. One of these hoax websites is MartinLutherKing.org. MartinLutherKing.org was created by Stromfront, which is a white supremacist group. Its goal is to deliberately spread false news about Civil Rights activist by discrediting its work, writing, and personal