User:K09.a25/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Binge-watching

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article since it has to do with the media, a topic which I hope to learn about in class. The article looks at how binge watching has become popular especially on streaming services. My first impression was that I was interested in hearing what direction they were going when talking about this topic.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The first sentence of the article defines what binge watching is so the user does not need to look too far. It is quick to find the information since the sections are appropriately titled. That said, the following content in the history section is quite sparse. It would be good if this section were better developed so the user has more of an understanding of the topic. Also, in the cultural impact section, the article mentions a recent study but does not include the date. In this case, including the year of the study will help establish the relevance of the information since if it was done in 2012, the results will not match with the present activities of binge watching.

Furthermore, the content in cultural impact does not flow very smoothly as it jumps from one research to another. To improve the legibility, the text can focus on select researchers which will be expanded instead of having various short paragraphs.

The content was last updated in November so it does not have any recent studies or information that would be relevant to the topic. Many of the studies were done before 2019 and it seems only one section mentions research from 2021. Given that the topic of the article seems to be an emerging pattern in the media, there will likely be more content to be added in the future.

The research studies referenced on the article page are from the past few years so it does not reflect our current situation with the pandemic. It would be useful to have recent studies since the pandemic will have shifted the amount of people binge watching. Regarding the tone of the article, there is a large presence of academic sources, but not much popular culture examples to see it in the real world. Since this is a topic that has to do with the audience's consumption of the media, the article should try to reference actual viewers with their experience. The researches that are mentioned have to do with the negative affects of binge watching, so adding a variety of conclusions to the cultural impact section will make balance the section. For the most part, the links do bring you to the page that it is titled.

Given that the article is fairly short, there are not many pictures except the one on the top of the page. That said, the one image is well captioned and placed in the article.

The talk page is not active. There are few discussions on the talk page. The recent message was in 2020, yet no one has responded since it was published. Hopefully on the near future, there will be more activity on the talk page of binge watching. Staying at home means more time to binge watch, so there should be some great stories out there to mention in the article.

Overall, I enjoyed reading the article since it talks about the effect on advertising which is something that I have not thought about. However, it draws some intriguing conclusions about how those who binge watch are less susceptible to the influence of ads than those who do not binge watch.