User:Yote02/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Media (communication)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because we live in a world where communication is often times done through media. I think it is important to understand this type of communication when the world around us is evolving into a more technological way of living. My preliminary impression of this article was thinking it would cover how to communicate effectively through media outlets.

Evaluate the article
The lead section for this article does have an introductory sentence and includes topics that are throughout the article. It is very short and hits the main topics of the paper. It briefly goes over definitions and provides a small history of media.

The content throughout the article is relevant to the topic. It goes over regulations of media communication and then different forms of media, mainly electronic. For the most part the contents are up to date and there are only a few gaps throughout the electronic content that could be updated and added too.

The tone of this article is very neutral and does a good job at explaining what media communication consists of instead of persuading the audience one way or another. The balance of this article is very focused on regulations and electronic media, however the introduction lead into these two focuses.

The facts throughout the article are backed up by sources. There is a wide range of dates when looking at the sources but a lot of the electronic media sources are very recent. There are a lot of journal articles and credible sources cited. When clicking and checking on the links provided they all worked.

The article is very organized and broken down into specific categories. There was only one spot at the "Age" section that seemed to belong under the "Gaming" section. There were not any grammatical or spelling errors that I could point out when reading the article.

There were only two images within the article and they were both presented neatly and appealing to the eye. They were both captioned correctly and provided more insight on the topic of companies being transparent in their media communication.

In the Talk page discussion, a lot of the comments are focused on the meaning and origin of the word media. There is also some discussion on medium and media and determining when the correct time to use those words are. This article is rated in the C-Class and is in the Technology and Media WikiProjects. In class we talk about media communication more in the form of textbooks and journalistic communication where as this article focused more on the technical aspect of media communication.

Overall, this article gives a good base understanding of media communication and goes into detail about a few subtopics such as regulations on media communication and electronic media. The strengths of this article are the relevancy and the background information it gives to readers about media communication. I think this article could expand more on some of the other aspects of media communication such as adding more to the development throughout the years, it was briefly mentioned at the beginning. I also think it could go more in depth on some of the electronic media sections and be updated there.