Watch What I Do not What I Say

According to Cory at craphound.com information overload is solved through trusting redundancy. However Nicole at TechRepublic.com believes that thorough a moderation of our use of these avenues associated with information overload can help us cope with the growing amount of barraging information( do you ever take a break form technology?). I notice the first article keeps a very loose tone, quite conversational, and includes a lot of personal examples.  He begins the article by mentioning all the information was from an article he wrote for a newspaper, obviously appealing to the readers ethos so we will trust what he has to say. Personal examples can reinforce this by helping the reader identify with him and begin to trust his way of thinking. Nicoles article shares this attribute. Her tone is more professional and more restrained but she is also appealing to the readers sense of ethos but in a different way. In her article uses a book about building a good life in the digital age and she references the author and substantiates with quotes to build report with the reader. In this way the author of the book is not providing fact merely a observation relateable to a mass, meaning that she is going to seem more believable because shes not the only one thinking this way.  I would say then that albeit devoid of any real useful information Corys article effectively communicates his rhetorical message of "chill out its all redundant info" by maintaining a chill manner towards research and tone.  On the other hand Nicoles article full of quotes and paraphrases  conveys adequately that we should approach this medium with moderation just like anything else.

Breaking News...

Whats a newspaper? In the near future this may be the reality faced by the older generations that have seen their fair share of bygone obsolete technology. ever since the start of industrialization and progressing into the digital age technology will cause new things to emerge and old ways to be buried, sometimes forever. A victim of this technological progression mechanism is the way we, as growing individuals, learn using the information available to us online. Schools around the country are recognizing this and taking action. Some have gone all digital with online grades, projection boards, even laptops for all students, on the other hand many do lack the capital to advance and explore these new methods of inspiring young minds.  The other big component of learning is not only the medium but the individual participating also. According to the book born digital the way kids are learning nowadays, especially through the media, is a process  of grazing followed by a deep dive into the information then a feed back loop. Online news stories often show only a head line or a picture and these grazing individuals if interested can dive deeper into the article then read comments or give their own feedback. Albeit quite different from conventional form of information acquisition born digital retains that it may be a different form but its effective and the only side effect could be a shorter attention span...wait, what were you saying?

Are you the master of your computer?

The technology we hold in our hand, carry in our book bags, sit down in front of at night all provide us with one thing...information. Information overload is commonly associated today with overexposure to technology and i have found a scholarly journal article that lends a few tips reducing your stress online. I located the article using EBSCO in the library database and after reading and engaging it with critical though and scrutiny,  I googled it just to make sure it was not a bogus. Turns out they are based in Michigan, what a quaint place. The article articulates that the onslaught of information over the years is relatively useless to the end user unless they can find a successful way to navigate the river of information facing oneself.  Due to the growth of the quantity of information nearly, 30% every year, there have been organizations brought about to study the repercussions of allowing such an onslaught upon the human animal. These groups like the Information Overload Research Group (www.iorgforum.org) have put together tips on dealing with this problem such as set aside time to check your email, turn off phone notifications,and  make messages clear for the recipient.  After expressing these recomendations they go on to assert that the way we deal with the information all around us can be to a great extent the determinant of you personal or professional success. Overall this article made a very good rhetorical impression. The use of descriptive language informed the reader and painted a vivid image for them while the recommendations allowed for the reader to take a personal interest in the message and possible to have a greater rhetorical affect.

Google said what?

Information access and dissemination on the internet is a relatively new concept for people, seeing that its only in its fifteenth year of life, we have quite a long future exploiting yet another machine to make our lives that we live, whether real or in a digital scene, easier and more productive (although you could argue the latter).  Its quite common for a typical internet user to search for say, a new video game, and wind up with results for new videos, or a video of me playing my favorite games to a number of unrelated topics. The question of quality of internet sources and general information is not a new one and some of the bigger companies like Britannica online encyclopedia represent a transition of old school to new technology while new companies like Wikipedia represent a free market balance way of information quality control. According to Born Digital the way it works is it is reliant upon the other users of the information or maybe a team of reviewers to spot and eliminate or verify information that may be incorrect.  So, if everyone with different thoughts and ideas just started deciding what is right and what is wrong and what the fact really are, it begs the question who decides what is right and what is wrong, relevant to information. after reading the chapter of born digital i felt like the ambiguity of the internet is the perfect place for this problem to persist and i look forward to seeing how the people of the world deal with this problem.