User:Charlottespohler/Evaluate an Article

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Visual communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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This article is tackling a broad term,"visual communication" and more or less giving a condensed timeline of how this medium has become what it is today. This is relevant because visual communication has evolved immensely over our lifetimes and has come to be incredibly relevant in our increasingly visual world due to social medias and now new virtual reality worlds. However, as the article discusses the new visual communication of the online world, particularly social media, it could use some updating, in terms of the apps they reference; the lack of discussion of current new visual technologies like virtual reality also gave the impression that it was in need of an update.

various technologies and innovations have had to visual communication; for example, the meta-verse of virtual reality has become immensely popular as a tool of visual communication, however, is not mentioned in this article, giving me, the reader, the impression that it is in need of a content update and could be relying outdated information.

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This article seems well informed and greatly researched as there are many sources included that are relevant and reliable. This article tackles a large subject and gives a concise and clear timeline of visual communication and how it has evolved. The lead section is concise and understandable, defining the topic within the first sentence, as well as, introducing the articles major sections without the mention of irrelevant information. The articles contents are all relevant to the topic. However, as this is a form of communication that is ever evolving the content can seem out of date; for example, when discussing social media apps there is no reference to Tik Tok or Zoom, as well as, no reference to virtual reality, a new form of visual communication with growing popularity. This content does not deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps. This article is incredibly objective and serving mainly to inform the reader on the world of vosiyul communication and how it got to where we are today. There is a plethora of sources used, mainly academic journals, and majority of the links are functional. Many of the facts are cited in the article, however, not all and this could be improved. The article is highly organized written very clearly and matter of factly broken up into various sections. The lack of visual images and components included in this article is slightly jarring as its topic is visual communication.