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Unit 4 Assignment 2
| a. https://www.factcheck.org/search/ | |
| Currency: the timeliness of the information | 10 |
| · When was the information published or posted? | Information is posted daily. |
| · Has the information been revised or updated? | Yes. |
| · Is the information current or out-of-date for your topic? | Current |
| · Are the links functional? | Yes |
| Relevance: the importance of the information for your needs | 10 |
| · Does the information relate to your topic or answer your question? | Information is relevant |
| · Who is the intended audience? | Political Followers |
| · Is the information at an appropriate level? | yes |
| · Have you looked at a variety of sources before choosing this one? | Yes |
| · Would you be comfortable using this source for a research paper? | yes |
| Authority: the source of the information | 10 |
| · Who is the author/publisher/source/sponsor? | Project of the Anneberg Public Policy Center |
| · Are the author’s credentials or organizational affiliations given? | Have won Multiple rewards and been around a long time. |
| · What are the author’s credentials/organizational affiliations if given? | Numerous Authors with good looking resumes |
| · What are the author’s qualifications to write on the topic? | All authors are listed with extensive backgrounds in their fields. |
| · Is there contact information, such as a publisher or e-mail address? | yes |
| · Does the URL reveal anything about the author or source? | No. Its .org but has been .org when it was considered more reputable |
| Accuracy: the reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the content | 10 |
| · Where does the information come from? | A group of authors working for the same website |
| · Is the information supported by evidence? | Yes. Links are in all the articles showing sources and documents where they gathered their information from. |
| · Has the information been reviewed or refereed? | They have a fact check link where you can check if what’s being said in media is true or false. |
| · Can you verify any of the information in another source? | Yes |
| · Does the language or tone seem biased and free of emotion? | No, all seems very neutral |
| · Are there spelling, grammar, or other typographical errors? | No |
| Purpose: the reason the information exists | 10 |
| · What is the purpose of the information? | Be a neutral source of news. |
| · Do the authors/sponsors make their intentions or purpose clear? | yes |
| · Is the information fact? opinion? propaganda? | Facts based on opinions |
| · Does the point of view appear objective and impartial? | Its seems honest and truthful. |
| · Are there political, ideological, cultural, religious, institutional, or personal biases? | no |
| TOTAL | 50 |
| b. https://www.politifact.com/ | |
| Currency: the timeliness of the information | 10 |
| · When was the information published or posted? | Daily |
| · Has the information been revised or updated? | Daily |
| · Is the information current or out-of-date for your topic? | Current |
| · Are the links functional? | yes |
| Relevance: the importance of the information for your needs | 10 |
| · Does the information relate to your topic or answer your question? | For the political topic yes. |
| · Who is the intended audience? | People looking for whats true and not true in political media |
| · Is the information at an appropriate level? | yes |
| · Have you looked at a variety of sources before choosing this one? | Looked at all the sources that they cited in articles and it was credible with multiple works cited |
| · Would you be comfortable using this source for a research paper? | yes |
| Authority: the source of the information | 7 |
| · Who is the author/publisher/source/sponsor? | The Polyner Institute |
| · Are the author’s credentials or organizational affiliations given? | Multiple authors are given with credible history backgrounds in political journalism |
| · What are the author’s credentials/organizational affiliations if given? | Political journalists from both parties |
| · What are the author’s qualifications to write on the topic? | Most have degrees and prior backgrounds before working on this site |
| · Is there contact information, such as a publisher or e-mail address? | Not direct to the publisher but there is a department you can contact |
| · Does the URL reveal anything about the author or source? | No its .com however it is not biased |
| Accuracy: the reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the content | 9 |
| · Where does the information come from? | Comes from a group of writers who are impartial and establishes writers in their careers |
| · Is the information supported by evidence? | All the articles do have a long work cited page with reputable sources |
| · Has the information been reviewed or refereed? | yes |
| · Can you verify any of the information in another source? | yes |
| · Does the language or tone seem biased and free of emotion? | They pride them selves on being impartial. “No spin. No favoritism. No punches |
| · Are there spelling, grammar, or other typographical errors? | no |
| Purpose: the reason the information exists | 10 |
| · What is the purpose of the information? | To separate fact from fiction |
| · Do the authors/sponsors make their intentions or purpose clear? | Yes they want to give the people the truth and not the lies media creates. |
| · Is the information fact? opinion? propaganda? | Facts |
| · Does the point of view appear objective and impartial? | yes |
| · Are there political, ideological, cultural, religious, institutional, or personal biases? | No |
| TOTAL | 46 |
Unit 4: Assignment 1
For this assignment, we were instructed to complete a search on any topic that interested us through the use of three different search engines and three meta-search engines. Since I have a strong I have a strong passion for sports and specifically the University of Oregon, I chose to search “Oregon Ducks” to compare the different results.
During my search, I noticed that each search engine and meta-search engine had goducks.com as the first result, which I expected since it is the official athletics website for the University of Oregon. To my surprise, Bing was the only search engine that had almost the same line up of the first five results as the meta-search engines including Bleacher Report. I was pretty shocked to find that each of the meta-search engines I used (Dogpile, Webcrawler, and Metacrawler) had the exact same first five results. The consistent top result (including apparel on Yahoo) was Oregon Ducks Football in comparison to the other athletics or the University’s academics.
Yahoo had only shopping websites for the first five results with nothing on the “Oregon Ducks” result page letting me know if it was an Ad. The other search engines had some ads for the first couple results, but it was clearly and visibly stated unlike the search engine Yahoo. Google and Bing both had goducks.com as the top result when I searched, however Google had the website header as “University of Oregon Athletics – Official Athletics Website” versus Bing which had the website header as “Oregon Ducks”. However, Google was the only search engine that had an article for the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine. With Bing’s first five results almost exact to the meta-search engines, the only exception was the fourth and fifth results on the Oregon Ducks team.
The chart below (and attached in the following link described as “Unit 4 Information Literacy Basics Part 1”) displays the 30 results from the three search engines and three meta-search engines as a reference. Unit 4 Information Literacy Basics Part 1
