- RELIABILITY (Is the information accurate? Under what conditions?)
- CREDIBILITY (Who is the author? Do they have the authority to produce the information?)
- PRESPECTIVE & PURPOSE (What does the author have to gain from publishing information? What is their bias?)
Monday, March 03, 2008
Using the Internet
David Warlick, author of Raw Materials for the Mind (2002) suggests three main criteria listed below for evaluating websites. Using the checklist you just completed on the MLK website, how would describe the site's:
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Reliability: Yes, the site is very accurate. The dates are up to par. Everything looks to be correct.
Credibility: The author is Stormfront. It is a White Pride organization. No, they do not have any authority to produce any information. They are using this as a type of propaganda to reel in readers.
Perspective and Purpose: The author will gain more attention and support from publishing this information. This organization are racist against every race except Caucasian.
1. RELIABILITY (Is the information accurate? Under what conditions?)
No- the information is not accurate at all, based on other information we have learned in schools.
2. CREDIBILITY (Who is the author? Do they have the authority to produce the information?)
The author is White Pride World Wide, a white supremacy group. They do, unfortunately the information is false. Because of the freedom of the internet they are able to produce any information they like.
3. PRESPECTIVE & PURPOSE (What does the author have to gain from publishing information? What is their bias?)
They gain better exposure by using the website name “martinlutherking.org” by doing this they are able to express their views of white supremacy to several unknowing and unwilling groups. There bias is that they are racist, and want to impose their views on others.
Carolina Girls~
We are not sure if all of the information that we saw was accurate to our knowledge because everything was not correctly cited and the author does not give us their real name or their information. The host of the cite is a blog cite.
The author of the cite goes by the name webmaster instead of giving their real name. No they do not have the authority to produce the cite.
The author gains nothing because it is all opinion. The author is bias to white supremacy.
RELIABILITY: The site www.martinlutherking.org is unreliable as the author is biased and the information is inaccurate. Note that the author does not put his name on the site, and the site is in fact hosted by a white supremacist group. This does not provide reliable information as the argument is one-sided and simply portrays an untrue lifestyle held by king.
CREDABILITY: As previously stated, the author of the site is a white supremacist group and does not provide a very professional, plausible account of who King was. The links on the page are unprofessional and do not provide sufficient evidence for the premise on which the site is established.
PERSPECTIVE & PURPOSE: The host of the site has an agenda to portray King in a negative light and provides only minimal support for this notion. Their bias is easily identified as the organization’s link is to a white supremacist group who, in fact, do not support the ideas that King provided for the US.
The Front Runners
Reliability- the information seems pretty reliable because his sources are cited and historical documents are present on the webpage.
Credibility—the author does not state his or her name but the authors of his/her sources are visible.
Perspective and Purpose-- To provide easy access for information about Martin Luther King Jr., not only through the information on his website but also by providing various outside sources.
The articles is taken from multiple magazines, but the overall credibility of the website is not reliable. It's hosted by a White Nationalist domain, meaning that most information on the website could be used out of biased opinion.
The credibility of articles are not credible based on the organization and the format.
From the perspective it is people who are opposed to Martin Luther King, and the purpose to slander his name.
Reliability:
Most of information is not reliable, portions of information is accurate like the pictures. Most of information is opinionated and not pure fact.
Credibility
No, information is not credible because the info is opinion or bias
Perspective and purpose
The hope to change other peoples perspective of Martin Luther King
1.RELIABILITY: on a visual level the information is accurate, but the information is bias.
2.CREDIBILITY: The Author is someone who shouldn’t be writing on this topic, due to the fact that he is a member of a white supremacy group.
3.PRESPECTIVE & PURPOSE He is spreading his beliefs, by falsely setting the website up to be an educational resource.
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