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We all have done some research before and the most common place we all turn to is the internet. We don’t go to the library to look for books, newspaper, or journals. We often hear people or even ourselves saying “Google it.” What does that even mean? We can search for information online and get so much feedback that we don’t know what is true or not which may be confusing. Kelly and Luther suggest that “When content is abundant, finding the right content becomes the challenge.”
When I was searching for the term “locative art” in Wikipedia it gave me results for “locative media.” It gave a description on what it is and other information that is not useful. Although Wikipedia has references Wikipedia is not a good place to research things. I don’t think it’s credible because it is not a primary source and anyone can write things on Wikipedia. When I searched for “Locative art” in Leonardo almanac, it gave me 27 results back. This site is not credible because the information that is given is from authors that use their nickname or only use their first name. When searching for the term “locative art” in WorldCat it gave me about 606,393 results back. Most of the results were either ebooks or books. This site looks more credible than the other sites because the information source came from books rather than just websites that people make up. Also the authors full names appear.
All these 3 sites are different and I learned that is better to use information form databases rather than websites like Google, databases are more credible, it gives you relevant information and more feedback.