User:Geol200 NB/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Political communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article for the reason that politics play a vital role in running our nation. Policy makers and political influencers utilize social, economical, and political factors to form the mass media and highlight information that is conveyed to the people of the country. My preliminary impression initially was that these influencers can have the power to manipulate the media as they please, but that is not necessarily the case given that the people also have a voice in media factors as well.

Political communication
An article on the principles of political communication. Relating to the aspects and general makeup of how it is portrayed and perceived.

Review by Geol200/NB
An informative source I would say given the use of credible outside sources to compose its theme and structure. However, there are some key takeaways I would like to touch up on.


 * Too many irrelevant links to sources not important to the article. There was one instance where there was a source linked to another article about the "World Wide Web" when it is clearly irrelevant to the discussion.
 * I think for the contemporary examples section, there should be more than one example of the titles is going to indicate multiple examples being used. Additionally, don't over analyze one example. Rather, dive into shorter more concise examples to better illustrate the motive.
 * The article doesn't provide any images to enhance the understanding of the topic, there should be an image demonstrating the general idea behind political communication so that the audience can further grasp the information of the topic.
 * The content and sources provided are also rather old and should be modified to more up-to-date references
 * Slight grammar errors as well but otherwise everything seems to be in order

Moving on, there were also some positives I noticed while reading the article.


 * There is no sense of bias or preference when discussing what political communication essentially is, there is no favor of, for example, certain political figures to sway the audience to believe something.
 * The article also had a talk section which users have commented stating that they will provide changes and updates to the article, one of them also referring to what I stated earlier about how there are some irrelevant pieces of information being utilized.

Overall, I was thoroughly intrigued from the article and can say that I have a clearer understanding on the sense of what defines public communication.