User:Driscollhhd/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Digital native

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because I think there is plenty of room for improvement and I find the subject to be very interesting. I did some research over the summer on the relationship of various generations with technology. I think readers can learn a lot about themselves and others through this topic.

This concept relates to this course because it takes a deep dive into the psychological impact of technology on society based on its development in the historical period at which ones was born. Culture is thus affected and created by the technologies themselves.

Evaluate the article
The lead section could use some tweaking. I did not feel like I have a good understanding of who digital natives are by the definition in the introductory sentence. A lot of terms were included and defined that distracted from the main subject. While it is not overly detailed, the tone makes it hard to understand what exactly the article will be discussing. There was not any information that is not mentioned later. However, it was to concise in the important parts.

As mentioned previously, the tone of this article needs some tweaking. It is hard to read and understand. I also think that the article could be broken apart better. In particular the second and third sections are very broad. I am also unsure the difference between the content in "Origin" and "Conceptualization". Discourse could be organized better as well to be more specific.

Content wise, what is there is relevant. However, I think that more can be said and more voices need to come into consideration. In the talk page, the content has been criticized for being outdated. While it did cover new generations such as Alpha, I think more could be said in the context of COVID-19. The same few theorists, researchers, and professors seem to be mentioned over and over. They are credible, but I would like to see other's referenced. I think more discussion can be had as to who are the digital natives and what that means in their lives. There is little to none mentioned about historically underrepresented populations. Further, the article states facts that are really interesting but does not follow it up with facts or research.There were also several missing citations that would help bolster the content.

This article does not reflect encyclopedic tone. The discourse sets out to include fringe viewpoints. However, the information is not cited or explained well. It thus does not seem to be presented fairly. I think that the article persuades the reader to like the term digital natives.

This article is missing a lot of citations. The sources included are thorough. I think the issue is how the information was included in the article. There are some great facts and research in these citations. However, I do not like how they are used to explain digital natives. As mentioned previously, this article needs to diversify its sources and writers.

While there are some pictures that are well captioned and adhere to copyright, they do not aid the understanding of the topic I think it would be helpful to include more data based images, not just "a child using tablet". I don't mind the layout of the visuals as they are though.

There are four WikiProjects that this subject falls under: Education, Internet, Marketing & Advertising, and Sociology. Within the talk page, it seems that sources are discusses and criticized. I agree with one discussion on clearing up the last sections. The information that is there is good-- it's just hard to understand due to poor structure.

All in all, I think that this is a solid first draft of an article, but there is much to be done so that it can be better developed. I think the biggest shortcoming is its lack of citations, followed by its tone. There is a lot of great information included. However, the structure makes it hard to understand. There are also a lot of missing voices and outdated research.