Attached here is a comic strip entitled "Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide, and fast on the Internet." taken from "Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture" by Stanley Baran, pg 324.
As they say, informations are all at the tip of the fingers.... The internet made it possible though. Everything and I mean 'everything' is at the world wide web including shopping per order, learning tools and many other cool stuff....But the problem is... Are the informations inside that web can be trusted?
It is true that the information are now easily found but it can also be easily spreaded too...In that case, the information in the internet can be true at times... And false too. Depends on the web we are in. There's a secure info web like 'Emerald' which are heavily protected and only allowed the info to be posted by the professors and all the researchers around the globe. A web like this are safe to believe. On the other hand, some web like the 'wikipedia' and other independent web that have no authorities, we cannot be too trusting. This is because everyone can change and edited the contents inside that web...Annndddd yeah, I can't be that sure of the info whenever I go to this kind of web...
So, in overall, I am not too confident to use the info that are spread across the internet..
Well, I guess this is my last post though... Soo, see you guys around. :)
ya..u are same opinion with me too..that's true we can find any information and spread news through internet.That's the reason of the impact of technological change on culture, learning had lead us rely on internet too..
ReplyDeleteRumors can be spread very fast on internet. That's the scary part of the internet. So we have to judge the reliability of the information we find in any websites wisely.
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