User:Mysticpixie/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
New media

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article for multiple reasons. First and foremost because it is relevant to the course I am enrolled in, as well as being significant within my chosen degree field.

Evaluate the article
The lead paragraph does give a good overview of what is considered New Media. There is no brief description of other topics that can be found within the article. A reader could just read the lead paragraph and be done with the article without having any need or desire to read further.

The article maintains a neutral tone throughout without being overly biased to one side over the other. Part of the history written about in the article could very well be reorganized into an argument for or against New Media section. The statement about Andrew L. Shapiro to the end of the History section has more to do with how New Media is affecting society than it does with the actual history of New Media. There also seems to be a few citations that aren't correctly Wikipedia formatted to footnotes or missing all together.

This article, according to the Talk page, is listed as a Level-5 vital article and is within the scope of the Media WikiProject. It is rated as B-Class quality and of High-importance. Within the Talk page, there is much debate whether or not the article should be considered a New Media studies article or remain as titled because it is unclear whether the article is referencing the term New Media or the study of it.

Overall, the article has potential. It could benefit from a bit of reorganization and edits for source context.