Wednesday, January 5, 2011,
Seventh Lesson
Seventh Lesson
HI ALL! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011! This is my first post for 2011! :D Today we learnt about Citizen Journalism!
Citizen Journalism is an article or journal usually written by the citizen or people based in their own country and it allows them to post it on the website together with photos and videos dealing with their own areas of studies, news and even their stories. In addition, it allows people to voice out their opinions and debate to share their views of the respective post.
The criteria that I've used to evaluate Stomp.com.sg is 'purpose' and 'accuracy'. Reasons for choosing 'purpose' as one of the criteria is because it is significant to know the aims, objectives or limitations, scope and intended audience of the site. This will help us better understand the website as well as to identify who are the people posting these information so that we can evaluate the websites on its reliability. And since Stomp is a website for the public which anyone from all walks of life in Singapore can post it thus it may or not be reliable.
The next criteria I've chosen is 'accuracy' as it assess the factual accuracy, research basis or cited references, and whether the contents are with political, ideological, or biasness. This helps us to see whether the post is of a certain credibility or not. Stomp is under the Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co. and its working closely with The Straits Times thus the contents submitted would probably be vet by their editor and edited if necessary.
To sum up, I've learnt how to evaluate the quality of different Internet information resources by the 10 areas of evaluation criteria.
Just to share a post that I found amusing when I came across while visiting Stomp. :D
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| Credits: Stomp |
If i were to create my own version of “Stomp” in relation my topic "Discussion on leisure trends among youths". I would change the layout of the website and categorize the different age group that youths falls under instead. In addition, this website will only be dedicated to youths of age between 12 to 21 to access. To be a member users have to sign up and input their IC no. to verify their age and hence able to post their favourite leisure past times. It will also be vet through by editors and edit if appropriate. In addition there would be a moderator to moderate comments to control cyber abuse of words in the website. There will also be a poll where the current most favourite leisure trend activities will be highlighted at the home page of the website. I believe with this new difference it will provide the youths with authentic learning and help them engage with communities of users safely (cyber bully).
I've commented on Jing Yi's Blog!
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