The creation of the World Wide Web has created a great change in communication and the transferring of information. As web page creation becomes easier through the help of new tools, Internet users are allowed to post any kind of information they want on their personal blogs. These contents can then be accessed by people around the world. Because this process is happening every minute, there exists an overflow of information. This raises a problem about the reliability of resources found on the web. Since anyone with access to the Internet can easily create postings on their personal web pages, information found online might not always come from a reliable source. With that said, it is important to take this factor into consideration when researching on the web. For example, if a university student had to do a research paper on human cells, it will be better for them to obtain information from professional sites. For example, research found on a university site will be much more reliable than those found on personal web pages.
Because there are so many different personal web pages which can easily be found through powerful search engines such as Google and Yahoo, information found on the Internet may be highly subjective. For example, one with strong political standings may affect other people by publishing their opinions on the web. In this case, one’s political view may be affected by contents from random websites.
Since a large proportion of the world’s population rely on the Internet daily, it has started to, and will become a medium for which the media will also rely on. For example, many artists have created their own personal web pages for promotional purposes.
References:
Burton, Kelly and Black, Peter. Legal and Political Issues of Blogging. 19 July 2006. 14 Jan 2008.
http://www.freedomtodiffer.typepad.com/blogging/
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