Week 3 Reading

The Review of Literature
By Judith Bell

When conducting a literature review, it is important to understand and only list the key issues, and provide a clear picture of the subject. The writer also needs to draw insightful conclusions by questioning assumptions; compare more than one sources of research; and classify large amount of information into an understandable pattern. Literature review also includes theoretical frameworks, which could be translated as explanations to human regularities and relationships. It could be formed by empirical observation and categorization. Having a structure of theory allows the reader to better understand the content of the knowledge.

1. Evidence of reading
2. Collect many facts, but classify them
3. Framework will provide give you ideas about a structure for your review
4. Give a picture of the state of knowledge and of major questions in the area
5. Note pages numbers of paraphrases.
6. Proof is hard, make no claims.
7. Examine sources for bias, and false acclaim
8. Unless comparing like with like, make no comparability
9. Do not leave out other research differ from your own findings.
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Annals of Information - Know it all

Wikipedia has become the most popular encyclopedia online. It has a high page rank due to frequent visitors who constantly update and change the content of a certain page's definition. It's original mission was to give access to encyclopedia to everyone in the world in their own language. This goal is slowly being achieved with the increased access to internet from all around the globe. It now has a complete system that manages the flow and incoming information provided everyday. However, its down sides are that users often edit and re-edit for purposes outside of purely providing information, as some pointed out that wikipedia gives to no privledge to those who know what they're talking about.
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The New Yorker out of Print
By Eric Alterman

It's been 300 years since the first existence of newspapers. Now that internet has taken over news publishing, newspapers are losing its advertisers and readers faster than ever. There is even a chance for newspapers to come to an end. Newspapers were used as a tool to reflect the voice of democracy, now that internet is accessble by a vast majority of people, news are shared instantly and by many voices together(e.g. a blog and its comments). Information is being delivered with more freedom and speed, compare to newspapers, where writer's voice is controlled by the editor and not the journalists themselves.