User:Brookeejasper/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Electronic Media


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article itself is pretty short and right to the point but the content is relevant to the article's topic. It seems like every claim doesn't have a citation backing it up. There is only one reference backing up all of the information that is given in the article. It doesn't seem as though the article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps.


 * Sources
 * A source that I had found relating to electronic media is a book that touches on historical analysis using electronic media. It is also about the history of broadcast media and what was broadcasted in our history.
 * Godfrey, D.G. (Ed.). (2006). Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410617156

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Media Bias


 * Article Evaluation
 * Yes the article's content is relevant to the topic. It touches on many different kinds of media biases and explains them well. I believe it is written neutrally and it doesn't seem as though the article is favoring a certain side or favoring anything in relation to media biases. While reading it appears that each claim does have a citation and there is a vast list of references for this article at the end of it. Yes the citations used in the article are reliable. I think it does tackle on of Wikipedia's equity gaps as it represents, anti-union and anti-worker bias which I don't think i've seen much of in the media.


 * Sources
 * This source is a research article on objectivity versus subjectivity of media outlets as it relates to their reporting of news on their twitter pages.
 * https://doi.org/10.1016/j.array.2020.100025

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Media Manipulation


 * Article Evaluation
 * Yes the article's content is relevant to the topic that it is covering. After reading the article I believe that it is written neutrally and that it is not favoring anything. No, not every claim that is made in the article has a citation to back it up. The citations that are used for some of the claims in the article however are reliable. It doesn't seem like the article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps although some of the sections could use improvement in the sense that there doesn't seem to be much information. So you could say that some of the subjects used in the article are underrepresented.


 * Sources

This article focuses in the misinformation and manipulation of media during the COVID-19 Pandemic. It touches on conspiracy theories and many other things relating to the information given to people during the height of the pandemic.

Ferrara E, Cresci S, Luceri L. Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19. J Comput Soc Sci. 2020;3(2):271-277. doi: 10.1007/s42001-020-00094-5. Epub 2020 Nov 22. PMID: 33251373; PMCID: PMC7680254.