I know I personally have felt this way many of times! Then, after I found high quality information, how was I supposed to know if it really was high quality or not? Especially in todays world of technological advances it is hard to distinguish between good and bad quality. There are so many things that can determine the quality strength of a piece of information: the website, the author, the publishing year, the editor, the list goes on and on.
You also have to take into account just pure "word of mouth." Some people will tell you for days and days how Wikipedia is filled with false information; however, for everything I have looked at on Wikipedia it has been truthful. I think the internet today is where the biggest disagreement between good and bad quality comes into play. We need to access all the things in the list above to initially decide the strength of the information's quality.
What are some things that you have come across when looking for concrete information? Do you think the internet has positively or negatively influenced information quality?
I think that the internet is a way of stockpiling a lot of information together for ease of use by many. But some people want to be right in their thoughts and believe that everyone should follow there ways are the ones who make the internet shady. Most of the time, as you said, it is so hard to find good quality information and once you do it can usually be disproved by a few sources. This makes finding things like information very frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI believe there is a lot of false information out there but I believe there is also a lot of true information out there as well. I think the issue is know how to find it and what to look for in quality information. If we learn how to discern between credible sources and not credible sources, we can better determine if the information we are collecting is quality or not.
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