Friday, November 9, 2007

UIR Episode 2 - Summary - Reflection

Interesting and easy, but confusing. This practical task took me a long time to complete. Had been trying hard to understand, analyze and describe. Understanding the difference between the 3 categories, analyzing the website and describing the website.

I used Google for all the researches in this week's practical task. I used keywords like "Drug abuse", "Impact of drug abuse" and "Consequences of drug abuse". Ultimately, I think only "Impact of drug abuse" gave me more related information. Information obtained through searching "Drug abuse" is too wide. It provided information such as causes of drug abuse. As for "Consequences of drug abuse", the information provided differs. I believe this is due to "Impact" more widely used in most resources as compared to "Consequences".

I learnt to differentiate the difference between the 3 categories of resources...Firstly is the difference in the tone of the message. Different types of website had different type of message that it is suppose to convey to the viewers, hence the tone will differs. For instance, Personal resources will most likely sound more casual as compared to Organizational and Subject based resources.

Secondly is the difference in the type of people responsible for maintaining the websites. For Organizational resource and Subject based resource, people who is maintaining it is of a more professional type. As for Personal resource, people who maintain it, does it out of interest. Any kind of people can do the job.

Lastly is the accuracy of the message in the websites. Organization and subject-based websites will definitely convey message that are of benefit to the organization while personal websites is conveying messages at a personal point of view. Different people have different point of view. Hence, personal messages at times can be highly doubted.

Sounds like, Organizational resource and Subject based resource are quite similar. Well, after some reading up, I believe their difference is that Organizational resource provides information from and link to, other related websites. And, Subject based resources can overlap information from personal sites. And, this is what I thought.

Hopefully, I am right.
Marking an end to Episode 2

Posted by iMcelestinE at 9:46 PM