Evaluating Information on the Web

Anyone can have a computer and Internet access then create a Web site. There for the safety of the information’s that you are getting from this website belong to that person who credit the website not a company or organization or anything. So the owner of the website can control any information’s or anything in the website.

There are some point a normal website should have it or avoid it.

Like the website should provide the base of the source or from where did he get the information so the visitor can understand it is taken from where.

Update the website the owner of the website update it, it will look more trusted than others who had long time to update their information.

Update is different from one to another, for example for medical should update weekly, news should update Daley.

Many  mistaken happen but one mistake all website owner should be aware of it. Is spelling errors. Or videos and sound clips.

These are most of the comment mistaken in website and how to know if it trusted website,

To be honest with you, I hardly check any website that I visit in internet if it is trusted or not.

But one thinks I know and I am sure about it. Is I cannot trust the internet for any information.

From my experience any one can just go and writ something in the internet, but it dose not mean is the truth,

Here are some clips and images come from my experience

i have watch this video long time ago. it have some really good point about securing internet information

you can add or edit in google map. i by myself can go and change information of something to fake address .

anyone can show different id or information about their self .

these days even kids can go and edit something in internet.



            INTERNET IS UNTRUSTED ..............

Are Bloggers Journalists? Should They Get to Use Shield Laws?

First i will start by definition the shield laws for journalists and what the shield laws do for journalists.
Shield laws are laws which protect journalists from being forced to disclose confidential information in legal proceedings. These laws protect the rights of a journalist from revealing confidential sources, notes, or other unpublished information and may be applied in both criminal and civil hearings. There are currently no federal statutes pertaining to shield laws, and as such these laws are left up to the states to determine.

The issue of whether or not journalists can be subpoenaed and forced to reveal confidential information arose in 1972 with the United States Supreme Court case Branzburg v. Hayes. Paul Branzburg was a reporter for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky and wrote an article about the drug hashish. In creating the article, he came in contact with two local citizens who had created and used the drug. Because their activity was illegal, Branzburg promised the two individuals that he would not reveal their identities. After the article was published, Branzburg was subpoenaed by a local grand jury and ordered to reveal the identity of his sources. Branzburg refused and cited the provisions for freedom of the press from the First Amendment of the Constitution, in his defense.
The case eventually reached the US Supreme Court, where the court decided in a five to four decision that the press did not have a Constitutional right of protection from revealing confidential information in court. The court acknowledged, however, that the government must "convincingly show a substantial relation between the information sought and a subject of overriding and compelling state interest." While this ruling did not set a precedent for journalistic rights in court, it did define a more stringent set of requirements for when a journalist could be subpoenaed in court. This ruling was limited in nature, did not set a clear federal precedent regarding journalistic privileges from revealing confidential information, and thus has been interpreted and cited differently by courts over the years.

Now we know what is the shield laws for journalists and how it work . 




Now Are Bloggers Journalists?  Should They Get to Use Shield Laws? 




April  25, 2010  ever have a negative experience with a company and your first impulse is to use the power of your website to go online and write about it? You may want to think twice,
since a ruling in New Jersey against a blogger last week may have implications for wether or not bloggers are journalists and therefore protected by shield  laws and youmay need to be able to back up and prove any claims you make online .
on  July 2010 the New Jersey superior Superior Court ruled that Shellee Hale, a blogger, was not a journalist -- and therefore not protected by shield laws, which normally protect journalists -- when she went online and "defamed the company Too Much Media by writing, among other things, that the firm had violated state laws protecting consumers against identity theft," according to the ABA Journal.
Superior Court Judge Louis Locascio stated in the July decision, "To extend the newsperson's privilege to such posters would mean anyone with an e-mail address, with no connection to any legitimate news
publication, would post anything on the internet and hide behind the shield law's protections."

Last week's appellate court ruling allowed the company, which according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, "supplies software to online pornography websites," to continue with its slander lawsuit.

Shield laws are there to protect journalists who need to serve as whistleblowers on sensitive issues prior to a legal ruling. They state that journalists do not need to reveal their sources and can refuse to testify about information they write in an article. Hale tried to utilize shield laws when the company demanded that she back up her claims and reveal her sources.
Yet bloggers often act as journalists -- journalists outside the mainstream media -- and this ruling could muzzle ordinary citizens from using their voice to point out the foibles of companies without protection from lawsuits. At the same time, this ruling could also protect citizens and companies from having slanderous statements made about them on the Internet. It's a ruling that cuts both ways.
At the heart of the case is the question of whether bloggers are journalists -- and if so, should they be held to the same standards as well as receive the same protections.
Journalistics points out that the self-perception of bloggers as journalists has risen.


Joshua Wolf (born June 8, 1982) is an American journalist who was jailed by a Federal district court on August 1, 2006 for refusing to turn over a collection of videotapes he recorded during a July 2005 demonstration in San Francisco, California. 

Reference
www.wikipedia.com
www.blogher.com
www.youtube.com

Sterotypes Women, Sport, and Film 2003

If we assume the media perpetuates stereotypes.
What can be done to combat them or the society ?
Become numb to these stereotypes ?
What do the media messages say about women in society  or mean , in society  or may be about gender or class etc...
mass media become on main bog sources popular culture in modern capitalist society.
 media dose not only give news to the people or entertains.but also give the  stereotypes ,

beliefs and values of the society t reproduce the values of social life. Louis Althusser in his theory of ideological state apparatuses, says that schools, families, religions play the role of the ideological state apparatuses. These institutions invisibly transfer and indoctrinate the dominant hegemonic ideology of the society into the minds of people in order to be able to control people. In the modern capitalist world, I would argue, media turned to be yet another althusserian ideological apparatus that control the mind of masses. It seems like media creates the unique pieces of art: movies, documentaries, magazines, music, TV shows and others. Theodor Adorno, would argue that all of these products of media contain zero level of uniqueness. According to him, what we see on TV screens or in newspapers is produced only with one purpose of being sold. Therefore, what is manufactured popular culture by media has to reflect the life of people, it needs to be on such level that people would understand and except. This reflection,is created through reproduction of stereotypes, which fill the life of society and, thus, are known to everyone.

One can find multiple examples, supporting argument on indoctrinating role of media in a capitalist society, in the movies shown in Women, Sport and Film class. For instance, in all of the movies we saw how hard the main characters had to work/practice in order to achieve their own goals. Whether it was Velvet or Monica, the whole women baseball team or a young water-surfer, they all had to practice for a long period of time in order to achieve the success. I think that this corresponds very well to such an important value of the capitalist society as competition. In the modern capitalist society it is widely accepted that the way to success lays through competition and only those who work hard enough can reach the sought end. It is beneficial for the hegemonic power to make sure that all people in the society belief in such myth, so that the unequal nature of such competition could be mask behind the mass belief. It might be true that only those who work hard can achieve successful results, but what we fail to realize, that not every one in capitalist society has equal opportunities and conditions for hard work. Not everyone has chance to have a horse (National Velvet), to be in a school, which has enough money to pay for a good basketball couch (Love and Basketball), to be able to leave the families in order to play in a team (A League Of Their Own). Not everyone is lucky to meet a "prince on a black Jeep" (Blue Crush). There are many people who cannot reach what is understood as success only because of not having enough money or authority, and not because of not working hard enough.

the most important one in this article,
is stereotypes presented in all of the movies was the dependency of women upon men.Male characters always participated in helping a female-character to reach the success. Velvet needed young man who would help her to practice her horse-riding skills. Monica's love to a basketball player was an important component on her way to glory. The rejection of her love by man was one of the main moments that made her want to practice even harder. The main character of  Blue Crush received an important advice from a young man she fell in love with, and, therefore, managed to win the competition. And, finally, in A League Of Their Own most of the women lived with the thoughts about their husbands who were fighting in the war. Besides, all sponsors, the manager and the couch of the female baseball team were men, and the existence of the team depended upon what the men says, rather from the athletic skills that these women manage to develop. What makes all these examples even more interesting is that one can develop a counter-argument, saying that the fact that in these movies men were helping women to achieve the success was instead a break of stereotype, which represents men as those who achieve high goals, and women as those who help to achieve these goals. If we compare the different ways, in which media depicts helping male and helping female characters, we will see that if men help with a wise advice and with their knowledge, then female helps by cooking and taking care of children. This is yet another stereotype, common to all kinds of mass media.


reference :
www.wikipedia.com 
 http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/      

Top 3 social media tools companies use .

  


Guys we all know the most three popular  social media apps in our toolkit are Facebook twitter and linked In, But there  are many companies using to have the edge and be more efficient and productive in their social media efforts .  how they are tweeting and how they monitoring that so I will show you  3 tools where found to be very popular and very widely use among brands and business.

 

Cotweet 

 

The best awesome thing is the web-base social media engagement, management and reporting, helps companies of all sizes engage  to track and analyze conversation about their brands across the most popular and influential social communities these days ( Facebook , Twitter)

Bad thing or let’s say not awesome at all is There can be issues with lag time in Tweets being posted and there is a lack of auto fill of Twitter names for tagging in tweets and hash tags. 

 Companies that use it: Whole foods 

 

RADIAN6 

A social media engagement tool that also lets you to find out who the top influencers are for your product/service category along with tracking conversations and engagement impact on your brand, and that is awesome thing.

 But what is not awesome is The CRM capability would be great to have and thanks to their new integration with Salesforce, it is possible now via the integration. Companies that use it: Dominos

Radian6 dashboard pricing starts at 600 $ per month. They also offer a 50% discount for registered and qualified charitable organizations. 

 

I totally agree with him .

Tweetdeck

 Ability to listen, monitor, respond, and engage efficiently and effectively on your social platforms from one dashboard or on the go. That is awesome thing

 But what is not awesome is Lacking Google Analytics integration and the ability to save draft tweets to schedule for later , Companies that use it: NBC

Reference

www.google.com

www.socialnomics.net

Doraid N. Mohammad 

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