Monday, September 24, 2012

Week Four Blog: Media vs. Text


On Tuesday Amanda brought up the really good question of whether media is better than print or is print better than media. The answer to that question is neither. It all depends on where the information comes from and whether the source is reliable or not. She told us that if you are looking for people’s opinion and that sort about breaking news, the best places to look are social networks. Most social networks such as twitter and tumblr have very easy research links so you are able to look up a certain topic fairly quickly. Along with social networks, Amanda also showed us the link to the website Opposing Views, which has people opinions controversial topics around the world. The website it really helpful because it publishes the information in certain ways such as pod casts, pictures, and articles. This website it super convenient because it even has citations for all the pictures that they use which can be hard to do yourself. On Thursday Bonnie went over the article that we had to discuss for our project. She asked a very meaningful topic of whether we should allow Google to be our brain? Personally I don’t think there is anything wrong with relying on technology so much because it is such a big part of our culture and it’s not going anywhere any time soon. But that’s just my opinion; others may feel differently. I think the information we learned this week, along with everything we have learned during the duration of this class has been really enlightening, and I think that I hadn’t taken this class I wouldn’t have been able to adjust to the course work that we get in college. I think my experience and my grades will be better because of everything this class has taught me.

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  1. Im happy she told us that we could use social medial websites as sources, because Im constantly on them so why not use them. I agree about your grades being better because if it was not for this class I would have no I deal about all the resources that are available to us.

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