User:Martiniaudrey/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cross-cultural communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is directly related to the content we are learning in class, and it is an extremely important and relevant topic in a world where people from all over the globe have the ability to communicate with each other. My first impression of this article was that it pertains to how people of different backgrounds are able to communicate with one another and the nuances that come with communicating with people across varying cultures.

Evaluate the Article
The article begins with a good and easy to understand sentence describing the cross cultural communication is how people of various cultures communicate among each other and to those of other cultures

Content

The article’s content is relevant for the most part, however, the opening paragraph does not make much sense to me. I don’t understand the need to mention the Cold War and its impacts on America specifically when this topic is supposed to be related and applied to culture around the world. I do understand the importance of the topic since the Cold War led to America’s globalization of capitalism, but it should be in a different section. Instead of the opening paragraph, perhaps the Cold War’s impacts can be mentioned in a subsection about the US.

This article is somewhat up to date, however I wish there was emphasis put on the impact technology has on cross cultural communication since it is integral to how people from different places around the world are able to come into contact without needing to travel.

I think this article is missing a section about imperialism and how that was the first big impact on globalization. The greed of Europe to imperialize a good portion of the globe definitely was one of the first events that led to cross cultural communication between Europeans and the people they colonized.

This article does mention a lot of different cultures, however the emphasis seems to pertain to how globalization has affected Western society and does not go into great detail on any other culture or place. However, the author does admit to the struggle of finding studies outside of North America that can be understood since the author is an English speaker.

Tone and Balance
This article is neutral and definitely does not try to sway the reader toward any belief, and I also do not pick up on any heavy bias.

As I previously mentioned, the Western view of communication and globalization is much more emphasized than any other view point, and other than brief mentions of the East, including the Middle east and Indigenous Australia, the viewpoint is mainly from that of a North American.

I did not pick up on any persuasion in this article.

Sources and References
This article is backed up by many sources and references that do seem reliable from looking at the source list.

The sources are thorough and lend a lot of perspectives which I wish was reflected better in the article itself.

Over a third of the sources are over 20 years old, and over half are not within the past 10 years. In a field like communication it is important to have much more recent sources because technology is constantly evolving how people communicate.

The links provided do work, and there is a good variety of authors from different backgrounds in the source information.