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@CailinJohnson

Rushkoff’s last four commands hold a high importance for people who fall within the digital divide. People that fall within the digital divide either by choice or by necessity due to financial situations do not participate within these commands the same way that people that don’t fall within the digital divide do. Those that are a part of the digital divide don’t have the same ability to connect and communicate with other people. “Our digital networks are biased toward social connections- toward contact.” (p. 93). They also do not have the potential to socialize with people that are hundreds or thousands of miles away. People that fall within the digital divide also do not have as great of risk to be caught lying. When you have no presence on the Internet you are not putting a false or truthful image on the web, the only image you portray is the one people witness face to face.  However when people don’t have access to the Internet they do not have access to the same resources that people who do have access do. “Digital networks were built for the purpose of sharing computing resources by people who were themselves sharing resources, technologies and credit in order to create it.” (p. 112). People that don’t have access to information on the Internet also don’t have access to how it works or how the programming that created the Internet works. Although people that do not fall within the digital divide know how to use the Internet many do not know the programming behind it.

@TannerSturza

When searching locative art in Wikipedia you get a page with a lot of information on it, but no way of knowing if any of it is misinformation as mentioned in the document Evaluating Information Found on the Internet, “it isn’t deliberate, it’s just wrong or mistaken.” Wikipedia can be used as a start for gathering information and search ideas, but nothing on wikipedia is credible and would need to be found on a credible site. Leonardo Electronic Almanac gave me a list of articles that were credible and useful, but it only gave me a few pages of articles. WorldCat was the most useful search engine because of the options that it gave me to narrow down my search results and all the results were credible. Both WorldCat and Leonardo Electronic Almanac give you information about the author to make the articles more credible. When researching on the web I must use search engines or databases like WorldCat and Leonardo Electronic Almanac if I want the information I find to be credible and correct. If I am starting to research a topic that I’m not familiar with I can use Wikipedia to get me started with broad information that I can search for in databases with credible articles.

@CailinJohnson

“They found that users tend to look at results ranked higher than one they click on more often than they look at results ranked lower…” (Carterette and Jones p.1) When first searching I thought that the most relevant and credible results would show up at the top of my search results. However that is not what I found with the worldcat site. If I did not already know that the WSUV worldcat site was a library search engine I would have questioned it credibility because only one the results on the first page was relevant to my search topic. Also the only result that was relevant was the 4^th result on the page. To me this makes the site seem like it does not have relevant results for my search and is not credible. The Wikipedia website gave a lot of information on the topic and gave quite a few examples of what locative art is. Also the references were published literature instead of websites; Leonardo’s Electronic Almanac was even referenced on Wikipedia. The only thing that makes me question the Wikipedia results is knowing that it is a free site that can be edited by anyone, however if I did not know this I would think that the site gave a credible search result. Leonardo’s Electronic Almanac fits the quote above which states that users look at results ranked higher because the only relevant result on the page was the first result. The other results did not seem relevant. The result that was relevant had a lot of the same information that popped up on Wikipedia. This similarity made each of the sites seem credible.

@TannerSturza

I had to wait until monday to start my day without technology because I was traveling to Los Angeles, CA over the weekend and it would have been too difficult to travel without technology. I had class on monday and homework to do so I couldn’t go the entire day without using a computer, but there were only a few occasions when I needed to use a computer. Other than that, not using technology for the rest of my day wasn’t too bad. I found myself wanting to listen to music because on a normal day I always like to have music playing while I do something. I didn’t have a problem not using social networks because I don’t use them very often when I can access them. Although I did struggle with knowing what my friends were up to because without my phone I couldn’t talk to them. The relationships I have with people are completely dependent on my cell phone, without my phone I can’t talk to my friends. When I get bored I like to go on the internet, so without the internet I had to find another way to entertain myself. I tried to spend the spare time I had accumulated with studying and doing homework, but I still wanted to listen to music while I did my school work. Although I was more productive with the time I spent doing my school work without the internet and my friends distracting me.