The Internet, or ‘net, is a vast network of computers that connects
many of the world's businesses, institutions, and individuals. The
Internet is composed of many parts, including the World Wide Web, FTP,
IRC, Newsgroups, Gopher, WAIS, Archie, and of course Electronic Mail
(Email).
The Internet is mainly used for communication. Email is the most
heavily used resource of the Internet- over 40 million email messages
are sent through the Internet a day. The second most used resource,
called the World Wide Web, or WWW, consists of pages of words, images,
sounds, and video.
The Internet is continuing to grow at 40% a year, with about 20 million
users, mainly in USA, Canada, and Australia, but still many all over the
world. You can do many things on the Internet, such as shop for just
about anything, bank and manage money, watch and listen to live cable
televison and radio broadcasts, talk to other users with voice like a
telephone, conduct international meetings, and access all kinds of
information on any subject imaginable.
As mentioned earlier, the WWW consists of pages and pages of text,
images, sounds, and video. Unlike pages in a book, there is no maximum
size for a page, and there is HyperText Links. If you click on any one
of these links, the computer will automatically go to the page specified
by the link. The WWW is programmed in a computer language called Hyper
Text Markup Language, or HTML.
Searching the Web can be a difficult thing to do, or if you use a
search engine, it can be really easy. Since so many new web pages are
added to the Web a day, a very good index is hard to keep, and an
alphabetical listing of millions of web pages would be almost impossible
to navigate through. To help this problem, people developed search
engines that search the Web for you. Some search engines, like Yahoo,
search in a big web directory they have made of hundreds of thousands of
web pages, that is organized like a phonebook. Other search engines,
like Alta Vista, or Magellan, search in a list of Web pages it has
created as it surfed the web all by it's self.
People usually access the Internet through a computer using a device
called a modem. Modems connect people to the ‘net through telephone
lines. Some companies, and the "heart" of the Internet, Use Fiber-Optic
cables to connect. Fiber-Optic cabled are made of hair-thin strands of
glass that carry information at the speed of light as pulses of light.
Fiber-Optics are thousands of times faster than standard copper
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This website can be easy to use but you really have to play around with it. Yes it gives great relevant information because the heart is a major factor in the body system. No this website was not easy to understand because of the fact that most information was hard to find. Yes it is from an reliable
First thing someone would want to look for on a credible website is currency. Was this written years ago and then abandoned? Does Kids Health’s information coincide with credible information, such as knowledge the audience may know about ADHD or could find through known credible resources? If one looks at the end of the article on the Kids Health site, they would see that the particular article in question was reviewed in January 2010 that is recent enough to feel like one is getting current information. If one would like to broaden their knowledge on the currency of the site than they can click on the “about Kids Health” link at the bottom of the page. There they will find the following statement, “Ongoing, scheduled medical reviews ensure that the information is as up-to-date as possible (Health, 2012).” Now one knows the site is current but more research is necessary to see if the information given i...
The two websites I have chosen to compare are Web MD, http://www.webmd.com/, and Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.org/. These two websites are speaking towards the same subject, which is medical reasoning. However, they both may seem to aim toward the same audience, but one is for a professional audience and one is for a non-technical audience. People who want information about medical issues are going to view these sites.
The Website I choose is the nihm.gov. The site is very complete not only offering information about ADHD but to others mental conditions. It is intended to help people understand mental illness. Some of the things you might see are health and education, outreach, research priorities, funding, news and labs. The part it caught my attention the most is how the site is reinforcing education. The site not only give definitions to conditions that people are trying to understand. It also involved in the subject’s mention above which can tell how complete it is for anybody searching into mental conditions. For me this website not only meets criteria but exceeds it. Some of the general things we are going to see on this site are description of ADHD, treatment for it and understanding the condition.
...ted a website that pertains to the disorder known as ADHD. There are five specific criteria that should always be met when evaluating a website, to assure the website it factual and reliable. The web page about ADHD exceeds all five of these criteria. The website is a government run site, so it has the proper and reliable authority. The information on the site matches other information about ADHD proving that it is accurate. There is objectivity because there are no opinions or bias located on the site, only factual information. The website is current and gets updated regularly, and covers all areas of the disorder ranging from the signs and symptoms to different treatment options (“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”, 2016). This site is an excellent example of what to look for when researching for an example of a reliable website with trustworthy information.
Authority is of course of major concern when one is examining a website about a disorder that affects so many children and even adults. In order to establish authority one must ask a few questions, who authored the page and does the author have the proper credibility, just to name a couple. WebMD is authored by experts in medicine and health communication. Not only is the website authored by individuals in medicine it is also reviewed by a national network of physicians on a routine basis. This lends to establishing that the website has the proper level credibility for individuals seeking to know more about this disorder.
...a professional. Deemed a credible source of information, CDC.gov is an excellent resource for anyone seeking health information.
Various web-based companies have developed techniques to document their customer’s data, enabling them to provide a more enhanced web experience. One such method called “cookies,” employs Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer. It traces the user’s habits. Cookies are pieces of text stored by the web browser that are sent back and forth every time the user accesses a web page. These can be tracked to follow web surfers’ actions. Cookies are used to store the user’s passwords making your life easier on banking sites and email accounts. Another technique used by popular search engines is to personalize the search results. Search engines such as Google sell the top search results to advertisers and are only paid when the search results are clicked on by users. Therefore, Google tries to produce the most relevant search results for their users with a feature called web history. Web history h...
The site states to start with specific websites, such as MedlinePlus.gov or other government sites, instead of just searching the whole internet. The site also reports that commercial sites should be carefully considered for credibility and bias, information should be less than three years old, and author credentials, preferably someone with a degree in healthcare, should be displayed on the page. A reference guide for credible online health information can also be found on the site (Johns Hopkins Medicine, n.d.).
The CDC website is where the public can be highly informed about ADHD. The website is a good way to distribute information to parents and raise awareness of it. ADHD is one of the many leading disorders in children and it continues on with them as they get older. The CDC website engages the rhetorical appeals of pathos, logos and ethos successfully for public reader.
Purpose: Allow users to be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages. In addition, support thousands of advertisers to use Google’s AdWords program to promote their products and services on the web with targeted advertising.
Social Media is defined by Merriam-Webster as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)” (Merriam-Webster), and for many Americans is a method of social interaction that is used often on a daily basis. It has been determined that one in five people use social media at least once a day and that 19% of Americans between the age of 15 and 54 are on sites like Facebook and Twitter(). It’s no longer common place to send handwritten letters or birthday cards, now writing on a wall, sending a tweet or snapping a picture is accepted. Although social media has provided todays society with instant forms of communication and ways to connect, it also created a new standard for living and has caused problems for many groups of citizens in all walks of life and has caused society to re-think its usage. There are two views about social media, either that. It is a positive addition to society and its benefits outweigh the risks, or that social media causes more harm than good and it’s usage should be limited.
Search engines are not very complex in the way that they work. Each search engine sends out spiders to bots into web space going from link to link identifying all pages that it can. After the spiders get to a web page they generally index all the words on that page that are publicly available pages at the site. They then store this information into their databases and when you run a search it matches they key words you searched with the words on the page that the spider indexed. However when you are searching the web using a search engine, you are not searching the entire web as it is presently. You are looking at what the spiders indexed in the past.
We as human beings enjoy finding the easy way to do things. Instead of looking through hundred of pages in books for information, you can simply type your question into Google and get your answer in seconds. The internet 's search engines may not find the answer to an exact question instantly, but it will provide millions of different websites that will have information on the topic. Some people say that’s making us more lazy, we look at three different websites and if we can’t find it we