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Funded research vs public research

The most interesting conclusion that Martin drew was the concept of having community control and participation in obtaining new research. After reading his text this made sense considering the amount of private/ government funding that goes into most big name … Continue reading

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Access to Knowledge

Aaron Swartz who downloaded so many articles online was known criminal. No one knows if he knew that he was doing a crime. He never told anyone why he downloaded them but he opened door for limitless online knowledge. So … Continue reading

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Research and the Power of Knowledge

There is so much information that is waiting to be discovered. How do we get all the information that we need? The answer is to simply research them. Research has provided us an golden opportunity to learn many new things … Continue reading

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Big data

With the wealth of information on the internet today, many industries and companies need to analyze the meaning of all this raw data. New methods , training, knowledge and equipment is needed to keep pace and decipher the many source … Continue reading

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Pavlik, Media in the Digital Age

The subtitle of Pavlik’s article reads: “New Technology and the Media:An Uneasy Alliance”. That leads me to think that technology and media have to constantly catch up to each other, through many advancing changes. It must be difficult, because it … Continue reading

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Blog 1

While I was reading I automatically thought about how the churches used to be back in the days. Those who had the information was the rich and intelligent ones that could read, the others were force (not literally forced) to … Continue reading

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Blog 1: Ch.1 and Ch.8, Badke

Access to information was not easily accessible to everyone, especially since there was no technology in earlier times. The only way to learn something was by asking around, which encouraged socialization and is diminishing the more advanced technology gets. Now, … Continue reading

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Information by Badke summary

Many people think they know what information is, but do we really? In the book Research Strategies by Badke he informs us what information really is. Information is something that is reliable, something that is up to date and current, … Continue reading

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