User:Fathia tijani/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mass communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is a topic that is wildly associated with all disciplines and it is also something I find interesting to read about. Mass communication matters because it helps shape publics opinion about in relation to government, education, etc. As the name implies, mass communication allows for the free flow of communication (information) across the world through the internet and other sources. I have always thought mass communication was about the media world and marketing; although, I did not really know much about it.

Evaluate the article
This article includes a description of the topic Mass communication, but it is not something that can be noticed at first read. I had to read this article twice before i could identify where the description of the topic was. I will say it was just bits and pieces of different ideas joined together to make one connection, but the connection was vague. This article did not cite some of the statements made under field of study, which made it hard to believe it was true. No links were provided in the reference list below; it was only the author's name, date of publication and title that were provided. Because I did not have the links to the sources I was not able to confirm if they were true or if they worked. There were some irrelevant information added in the article. for example: the history of Photography was not needed because the main focus of the article is Mass communication and not Photography. inputting this distracted me from the main idea of the article. On the talk page, majority of the conversations were about the article not being clear. Also after reading the comments of the talk page, I realized that this article was part of a students wiki project. If links to the information were provided it could have made the article stronger.