The Three Tiers of Credibility

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As defined by Wikipedia, our first source, “locative media concentrates on social interaction with a place and with technology. Many locative media projects have a social, critical or personal (memory) background.” Here, we learn that although the media may not be strictly contained within one location, the content of that medium is. Through the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), we find that “interactivity plays into the relation between humans, technology and social space” (paragraph two). WorldCat from WSUV brings yet another set of articles and perspectives. “Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives” (Mobile Interface Theory).  Now overall, Wikipedia offers the most direct and simplified information, which is great to glance over and obtain main ideas. However, the LEA is more credible because it offers contact information for article authors and even provides a place to enter their degree level. That way, someone could search for articles written specifically by university professors with a PhD. Wikipedia on the other hand has multiple authors and no contact information for any of them. Although it is technically peer-reviewed, we are given absolutely no credentials for the authors. WorldCat has a multitude of articles (although relevance may be questionable). WorldCat is a university-run database full of the most reliable sources that can be found. These are largely peer-reviewed scholarly articles and there is plenty of background information so that researches can check the source for credibility.

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