Assignment #2-Part Two

Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Anne Pemberton
Assignment #2- Part Two
1. Warschauer, Mark. Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2003.

Mark Warschauer is a Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is a professor in the Department of Education, and the Department of Informatics. In addition to that he is the director of the University of California, Irvine’s Ph. D in Education program, and the founding director of the University of California, Irvine’s Digital Learning Lab. He was formally a professor and also conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Hawaii, Moscow Linguistics University, and Charles University in Prague. Professor Warschauer has written a lot of papers relating to technology, such specifically touching on the Digital Divide. He has also written multiple books that focus on the developmental of new electronic literacies. That specifically relates to the Digital Divide because with the “new” developments it is helping to help stop the “digital divide” from increasing. The intended audience is professors and the people who are interested in learning and possibly helping stop the digital divide.

2. Compaine, Benjamin M. The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.

Benjamin M. Compaine is currently a professor at Northeastern University. While being a professor he is also a senior consultant for the Innovation International Media Consulting Group. He was previously a Research Consultant at the MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence. He received a lot of information about technology when he worked for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) and was chairman of the Center for Information Industry Research. After working there he gained a lot of knowledge about digital advancements. When Mr. Compaine co-founded and became chief executive of the Nova Systems Inc. he continued to learn about the digital divide because that firm created and distributed software management information reporting in telecommunications centers. The audience of this book would people, scholarly or not who are trying to make their own opinion if the Digital Divide is an up and coming issue or just being made into a bigger deal than it needs to be. This source relates to my topic because it shows a lot of good examples about the myths and truths about the digital divide that I may have read. In comparison to my first document this gives more unbiased views on the digital divide and tells me on about neutral facts about how the digital divide is or isn’t affecting us.

3. Hongladarom, Soraj; and Ess, Charles. Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives. Hershey: Idea Group Reference, c2007.

Soraj Hongladarom is the director of the Center of Ethics of Science and Technology, and the Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University. He can be also be found in the Department of Philosophy in Bangkok, Thailand. He first received his B.A. (first class honors) in English at Chulalongkorn University. After that he received his M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Indiana. He finally received his Ph. D in philosophy at the University of Bloomington, in Indiana. He has had countless books, publications, and research grants to write about technology issues; specifically many about the Digital Divide. Charles Ess is the distinguished Research Professor, Global Studies Professor, Philosophy and Religion at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. He got his B.A. in Philosophy and German, at Texas Christian University, his M.A. in Philosophy (minor in Greek) at Penn State, and his Ph. D in Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. While getting his M.A., Ph.D, and after graduating he gave many lectures about philosophy and the philosophical issues relating to the digital divide. So far this is a different type of source compared to my other documents. This source not only is about the digital divide worsening and the base of it but talks about the “ethical” side of the digital divide. I feel that this would relate to more individuals who want to know about the “right or wrong” side of the digital divide.

4. Servon, Lisa J. Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2002.

Lisa J. Servon is the Associate Professor and Associate Director, Community Development Research Center at Milano. Milano is The New School for Management and Urban Policy. She received her Ph. D from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition professor Servon was recently the assistant professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Professor Servon mainly does her research and teaching focusing on community development, urban poverty, gender issues, and economic development. Research that I can gather from this source will be much different from my other sources because this source touches upon the broadness of the digital divide but also hones in on the economic affects and the way it can or will affect your community. She is a good source because she deals highly with community development and economic development at her previous place of work, and her current job. The audience that could possibly view this would be other scholars, people concerned with their current community and people who are concerned about the economics.

Reading Responce #4

Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody

Reading #4

Read, Brock. “Can Wikipedia Ever Make The Grade” Chronicles of Higher Education. (10/27/2006).

It wasn’t until recently that I learned that Wikipedia wasn’t as great at is seemed. I always thought of Wikipedia to be awesome because it had information on almost anything I wanted, I never got bad grades on the assignments that I got information from on Wikipedia so I thought it was perfect. This article talks about how really Wikipedia can’t be fooling you. Anyone can use additions or put in false facts or even delete facts on Wikipedia sources. I always saw the edit button on Wikipedia but I was either so caught up in getting my information it never fazed me as to what “edit” actually really meant.
In this article they talk about how “mob-edited” publications can obviously be untrue and actually cause controversy. Apparently a professor’s name and a politician’s name were defaced and were impacted by the allegations until they were able to show that it was an edited site and was in fact false. It got to the point where there was so much drama and falsifications that Mr. Halavais decided to conduct an experiment to see which sites were normally edited. He was able to find out that sites that were “trolled” were forums, blogs, and Wikipedia (obviously). These types of websites were subject to a lot of false and disruptive statement. Despite my lucky of never receiving any bad grades, or had teachers correct me on my “inaccurate facts” in Mr. Halavais’s experiment showed that Wikipedia continues to provide students with mixed-often failing grades.

Reading Responce #3

Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody

Reading #3

Bell, Steven. “The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer An Appetizing Alternative To Google.” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 50, 24 (2/20/2004).

When ever I am in a time of need or don’t know an answer to a question my typical response is, “I don’t know…Google it.” This article talks about how that statement right there is what they are trying to fight. In the article they talk about how libraries offer more information regarding our subject topic and the information you find in the library is always accurate while the sites that come up on Google may inaccurate or are only displayed because they pay Google to put them up there.
Mr. Bell talks about something that we actually touched on in class. Libraries spend a ridiculous amount of money a year on renewing their subscriptions to academic journals, and much more. These hosts make a crazy amount of money and it is only able to be viewed if you pay for the journals. This enables many students to have better more concise information which we should utilize.
As I stated earlier Google doesn’t always offer sites that really meet the criteria you need. The dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, James Morris has even coined the phrase “infobesity.” This term is talking about how on Google searches you, “receive overwhelmingly amounts of low quality material that is hard to digest and leads to research papers of equally low quality.” In the article they talk about how they are going to hopefully start to get students to use more sources from the library. The way they are trying to do this is make is less “confusing.” Obviously so if sources are difficult to find in the library and Google is so much easier people are reasonably going to use Google.

part 1: Assignment #2

Kimberly Rhine
Ms. Anne Pemberton
Ms. Sue Ann Cody

Part 1: Assignment #2

I chose the Digital Divide as my topic because I have had firsthand experience with my grandparents and parents becoming technologically advanced as time goes on. My mother has just recently starting texting me if she has been in meetings while my father has been sending book like messages on his full key pad black berry for a good year or so now. My father’s sends me emails all the time just updating me on his life, emails about what has been going on in the world, and even stopped sending real cards because he loves to send digital E-cards now. Meanwhile my mother’s father hates technology. He gets so frustrated at his computer.
The topic I have chosen is basically about helping our community become technologically stable, and touches on how we need to even help people in other countries understand technology so they can begin to even have the desire to want a computer.