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Hw Journal 2

Through out these past lectures on how to make a better research process, has been helpful. There is more easier strategies that I have learned in order to evaluate sources in any format, and why is important. The keys for internet searching, l and how to use the settings of ibrary catalogs including other databases. Before taking this course I would use the city tech library catalogs but after the lecture we had in using this kind of source was helpful. I would not use the settings right to better find what I was looking for, which made it stressful to find the close enough information related to my topic. Doing a annotated bibliography was my first experience and I would probably take my time to do outside of this course because I feel the sources included in the research paper are important. Summarizing the sources reminds us more of the topic and helps us stay in topic for our research paper to make sense with proper academic information.

Homework 2 Reno A

The article of New Technology and the Media: An Uneasy Alliance is about how the information traveled to the world by using technology, like the electromagnetic telegraph, daguerreotype camera, radio, television and etc. The telegraph was a useful technology that use code to commutate to other people, this technology has proved to become a big help in the media industries like the newspaper company but wasn’t really reliable and the cost was very expensive. The daguerreotype images was great for newspaper article because it helps bring  the story more convincing and can actual see the events that happen on the newspaper. Later on radio, television and cellphone has made information quicker, easier and more affordable to get. Media has become a big spread throughout the world and technologies have help us or guide us to what’s going on in our surrounding and now we the people can’t make any excuse anymore(that sucks). The question I have and it might sound random is why is technology controlling our lives? I mean everywhere I go I see people on their cellphone texting and I just feel that maybe technology has become a big distraction and  we use technology too much. I do think technology are good in some cases but i just think that too much  technology is way over the top.

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While reading Badke’s book, I found it interesting to see the way he expresses his opinions and knowledge in the sources we use in our daily lives. That is finding any kind of information, by using the social web, books, electronic devices, and so on. Badke shared in the first chapter the beginning of information and how it was used, and passed from generation to generation. Not forgetting to mention “tradition” which for Badke is a way of seeing what knowledge is. For example going from verbally to print information to now being able to have information seen in electronic devices, like a kindle. Badke made it clear that not all information found or shared could be reliable, for instance the world of Internet where any individual can share freely. Going to chapter 8 is why Badke shares some tips on ways to make research comfortable for our future works, and to also know how to find correctly the  information we need.