The topic i choose for the annotated bibliography is privacy in the digital age. I choose this because of the growing popularity of Facebook and how Facebook is changing over time. Slowly but surely Facebook has become less private. I would like to narrow the topic down specifically to Facebook and Myspace their history of how they changed over time, with change both of the cites became less private. My hypothesis would be that internet blog sites, specifically Facebook and Myspace have become less private over time. Where were these sites when they first became prevalent? Have there been other sites like these that have failed in the past, if so why did they fail and have there always been privacy issues?
wikipedia September 17, 2008
This article is called “Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade” by Brock Read. He writes about how wikipedia does not give priority to professors and those in the profession of the topic. He did an experiment on if wikipedia would catch errors made on various searches. He reported that they were caught within hours of writing them. I learned that wikipedia has editors. I already knew that anybody could post whatever they would like about a topic but i did not know that it was validated. This proves that wikipedia is not as unuseful as I thought. Most of the information on the site is validated, however i still would not fully trust wikipedia for a research paper.
eicher reading September 3, 2008
The title of this reading is “Primary sources: Handle with care–but DO Handle”. It is obviously about primary sources and different types and kinds. It explained how something could not be a primary source or a reliable and how to verify, for example, by looking at when and where the source was written in relation to the topic being researched. The source could have been written weeks or years later than the actual event being reported, not making the source as reliable as some other source written only hours after the event or topic being reported on. I did not particularly learn that much about primary sources because I was taught about them and how to use them in high school. I did learn that the assasination of Lincoln is told in many different variations. I do believe primary sources are very important to research information because thats how we know the details and series of events that actually occured within a certain event, history.
