User:Ajb321/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mass communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the topic of mass communications because it relates to my area of study and field of work. Mass communication is always evolving and its Wikipedia page needs to change as the subject changes.

Evaluate the article
The first thing I noticed missing from the article was a citation in the second paragraph. Throughout the article, there are multiple missing citations and requests for citations to be added by editors. In the section about advertising, there was a self published source. It contained a great deal of information about all the different aspects of mass communications but some sections seemed excessive. For example; the history of photography and information about the contemporary photography industry could just be a link to another article rather than have their own sections. Additionally, the section about "catfishing" and the MTV series "Catfish" is irrelevant. There are no photos included in the article but that isn't always necessary.

The lead paragraph mentions several mediums that are developed upon further as the article goes on except billboards are not mentioned again. The issues and complications section may not be completely developed. There are certainly more than 2 issues with mass communication and the first paragraph in the section is biased against modern technologies. The sentence "Mass communication had evolved into something that has gone down an unforeseen path where it has become something extremely complicated and has major unintentional repercussions on people." is neither neutral nor well written. There is a wide array of view points and relevant citations, however citation #19 has no link attached. Every other link appeared to be working.

The article does appear to be up to date and addresses all of the changes that modern technology has had on mass communications. It acknowledges that television and radio are no longer as relevant as they used to be. Mass communication has been listed as a level-5 vital article in Society. Users in the talk page have described the article as "too vague" and "in need of clean up by a professional." I agree that there is value to the article but certain sections need to be removed and others need to be expanded upon.