Thursday, July 16, 2015

Evaluation of Social Media Sources

The Controversy surrounding Uber - Storify

Source 1: https://twitter.com/representinnov/status/621849056697057280
Credibility: The source is from a Twitter handle @representinnov, and named Innovative Living. There is no author for the twitter, only a so-called organization. Googling them shows results for ways to live innovative, not a specific organization. There does not appear to be any affiliation with any organization.

Location: The Twitter account is based out of LA, but tweets about a variety of topics across the country, so they are not on location with their stories.

Network: It is a rather new Twitter account, with not a large follower database (yet). There are no credible individuals that I could find in their followers list.

Content: The information from the tweet comes from CBS News, so yes it is reputable and can be proved factual.

Contextual Updates: This was the first time they tweeted about the issue.

Age: The account has less than 1,000 tweets, which suggests it is rather new. However, all of their tweets are cited with sources, and suggests credibility.

Reliability: The sources in the tweets are all reputable, big name publications, which suggests the information is very reliable.
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Source 2: https://twitter.com/techvoize/status/621713044087902208
Credibility: The source is @Techvoize, which seems to be a Twitter account devoted to news regarding technology. The bio states: "Middle East's leading tech and startup community."
Googling them brings up their website, which is nicely designed and laid out.

Location: Their Twitter location is out of Dubai, covering mostly news from the Middle East.


Network: The Twitter account has 65,000 followers, which suggests it is reputable and many people look to them for tech news.

Content: The information in the tweet can be backed up by an article written by John Waldron, titled More Controversy For Taxi Hailing App Uber. This article has many links to further readings from reputable sources.

Contextual Updates: So far, this is a one-time post that was created today, so there are no further updates at this time.

Age: The Twitter account was started in September of 2013, and the website was copyrighted in 2012.

Reliability: The information from the tweet and article are coming from well-known American sources, so the information can be interpreted as true and factual.










2 comments:

  1. Mike, I know you're struggling to find scholarly sources and thus, haven't composed Blog Post #7 yet.
    I would start with the 3 journals you identified in Blog Post #5. Search within them to see if there's anything related to your controversy (Uber) - even if its about something broad that can be applied to your controversy (for example, articles about managing or compensating employees, articles about app-based businesses or articles about disruptive businesses/tech and workplace legislation related to business ethics....)

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  2. Can't remember if I posted this earlier, so.... an important detail: your blog posts need a properly cited image. I was explicit about this in the intro video for Deadline 2 that I posted in the News feed. Be sure to check D2L News for announcements.

    Don't worry about fixing any deadline 2 posts lacking imagery. But for Deadline 3 and onwards, be sure to include a properly cited image for every blog post!

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