User:Yenak601/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Multimedia Studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Multimedia Studies examine the links between traditional forms of media to new media programs. This is important to understand how the traditional forms of media has influenced the development of current, new media. I chose this article because people nowadays use or are exposed to different media and studying multimedia will provide insights on how the new media that we use everyday are formed and influenced by the past.

Evaluate the article
The leading sentence explains the topic in a concise manner. It describes what Multimedia Studies are and the focus of the studies. Though the leading sentence is only one sentence, it includes the information stated throughout the page. The article only states the history and recent challenges and fails to explain issues and concepts in details. The contents are up-to-date as there were few edits made in current year. There is a lack of detail in explaining what Media Studies aim to teach and contents of the studies. It also did not provide much information about academic research related to the field.

The articles cited are reliable and are scholarly articles. Contents are relevant to the topic, but they lack detail in covering various topics related to the subject. Contents are up-to-date as it also covers the recent challenges. Tone of the article is in a neutral point of view, no subjective statements. There is lack of information in explaining problems such as internet trolling. There aren’t fringe viewpoints in the articles. Sources and references are reliable, but the scholarly articles cited as a source are not up-to-date. Most of the articles are published in between 1990 and 2007. The article is written in concise and clear manner. There are no spelling or grammatical errors. It is well-organized, yet there is a lack of detailed information. The article doesn’t include any images nor visual elements. In the talk page discussion, editors added proper sources and remove or add proper URL links.

The article is organized and concise, yet it lacks in covering some of detailed information. The strength of the article is it was straight to the point and the introductory section  was clear and informative about the subject. It also cited sources from academic research papers. This article can be improved by adding more information about some of the concerns or goals of the subjects or explains major researches that have done. It would rate this article as a little underdeveloped in terms of content.