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HW-Blog Post #1

Posted on September 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Reading Chap. 1 of Badke’s book, I can see my habits time and time again. I’m one of those “Googlers,” finding the basic info on a topic I know little about, put my opinions if needed and pray for an A. In Chap. 1, he explains the info fog and how before the “.com’s” they were traditional socities: like when a family member tells you a secret recipe that has been passed down generation after generation, and the printing press: the reason why it doesn’t take months to replicate a book, magazine or journal. The reason why I “googled” because it was the easy way. It takes time to look in a library/encyclopedia and gather all of the un-biased info that you need for a research paper when the top 5 websites discussing the generalization of your topic is within a search. Forget checking the credibility of the site & source. After reading this chapter, I realized I wasn’t putting 100% when it comes to getting info/checking sources and I plan to change that this semester.

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Homework_2 Improved Technology

Posted on September 4, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The media of public communications, such as news media which we know of, have often “interwined” as the author Pavlik described, with new technology startegies throughout time. While reading Media in the Digital Age I have learned about the early use of daguerreotype, which gave the newspaper media the quality of storytelling in including photo images. Next the use of technology to reach out the audience with daily news, through the radio and television. Pavlik stated that journalists and other media leaders should utilize technology more in order to keep news in particular existing. Agreeing to his writing keeping up with new and continuously technology, we can all keep informed by daily updates that we are surrounded by. There are a whole new technology resources such as blogging, internet, mobile devices, gps, tablets and so on. As the two videos assigned to watch, it supported the idea that technology has made our time easier for many things including the communication between others in search of information. Proving that technology could be used for positive outcomes.

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Homework 1

Posted on August 29, 2012 by | Leave a comment

In chapter one William Badke have really help me to understand how powerful information and knowledge is. How knowledge and information can be a tradition to help keep the society and the generation alive. Information has generally spread throughout the world and becoming easier to access, people can go the internet and look up any information and that search engine will give you that specific type of information you want. Since the generation has change and the technology have become a big impact in people lives, we don’t need to ask people for information or looking up on books anymore we just go to the internet, and that’s the problem I have with that. It seems that the internet is our only solution, I mean we rely on the internet to much that  people believe what they see on the internet are true facts. While reading the first  chapter  has help me realize that information is changing throught out time, we need to dig deeper to our sources and find out if our information is reliable or not.

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Homework 1 Emira Marra

Posted on August 28, 2012 by | Leave a comment

After reading chapters one and eight of William Badkes book, research strategies: Finding your way through the information fog, I began to wonder, how efficient is the information that we can easily reach nowadays? is it usable and can it be counted as accurate information. From reading the chapters it seems that it is necissary to investigate information and make sure it is comming from a viable source before we can use it as evidence to our questions or thesis. Badke explores the different ways of understanding if information is precise. In order to use information it must be relevant and reliable. In chapter 8, Badke demonstates key steps in taking a multitude of information and constructing it into smaller, useful portions such as PDF files and so on. I found this part of the text to be useful and interesting because it helps you organize your thoughts so they dont become scattered.

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