After reading the articles for this week it just reminded me of high school when gathering information meant going to the library. I would go into the library grab the books I need and be on my way of having credited papers. However, now I find myself searching on online libraries to find the perfect academic journal. Since it is within, usually WSU, online library system I find it to still be creditable. This is not true if I only search online. All the text and print articles out there give their readers no insight of how if in fact the text is recent, truthful or just an opinion piece. As John was discussing in his article print was sometime misprinted or copied differently from the original. This is interesting because I feel that this can be related back to our era of the digital age. We have the freedom now to print or write anything and have it out in the digital world. I found this similar because now information such as academic articles can be re-printed and morphed by anyone. The Internet allows someone to morph text and in turn loose its credibility.
In the sense of fixity and the digital age it is not always a good thing. This is a difference from the printing age and the digital age. Once something is one the Internet it is in theory there forever. Anyone can put context out into the digital world and then this context can be transformed into something similar or completely new. This is not always desired and in turn can be an unhelpful way of getting information out into the world. Again going back to the idea that getting information online is not always the safest. I knew in high school my sources were creditable but now it is harder to know if the information one gets from the Internet is creditable or not. Luckily online libraries and academic journal websites are out there and easily accessible to those who seek that kind of information.
It is true that once something is placed on to the web, it is there forever. Anyone can take the content and change it or use it however they want. That is why you have to be careful, and I agree, I am glad that online libraries or scholarly archives are out there so there is an option of actual credible sources that you can be sure to trust.
ReplyDeleteI think people forget that if they do not trust online sources, they can always refer back to an actualy library and look up information in books. But since searching online is so convenient, people come to trust the things they read and sometimes forget that the information can be fake or not credible.
I agree that if your searching online a library is the way to go. But I also want to mention, that although you can't really find out how truthful something is without checking multiple sources usually you can find a last updated date on almost every website, so you can more-or-less find out when the information was placed online. You have a point though about using books rather than online, and library resources rather than just any site; and I agree with this order. Still, if someone is really careful and uses many sources and really looks into who posted it, when it was put up, and wording (to try to tell if it is opinion) in combination with library resources, the internet can be a powerful tool for research.
ReplyDeletewelll well well Simmone lucky you we get to comment on people outside of our group this week so you get a little somethin somethin from meee!
ReplyDeleteANYways I agree the whole researching, and writing papers process has really changed from when we were in junior high/high school until now. Unless we are forced to, we all use the internet for our resources. To us we are just trying to get our assignments done so we don't really think about whether or not it is truly creditable, I mean especially if its through WSU libraries.. But things still get snuck into there that we have to watch out for.The internet is a crazy crazy thing.
I'm not exactly sure what the argument is here that you're making.
ReplyDeleteIt is very difficult to know if the sources are credible. You have to search deep in the internet sometimes to find out if it is or not. Who decides what is credible in the first place??? Anyways alot of information is recycled and reused on the web
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