Ansumana Mahoi

Assignment 1
1. a) mobile technology
b) I used the CCBC Online Library Database for this assignment.
c) I chose this database because I found the search process to be very simple. While the
search process was very simple, the online librarys database still had a large amount of
resources related to the material I was researching.
d)
O'Brien, Meghan. "Using Mobile Technology for Communication in the
Educational Setting." Using Mobile Technology for Communication in the
Educational Setting. American Speech-Language Hearing Association, 24
e)

Apr. 2015. Web. 14 Feb. 2016.

Reychav, Iris, Mary Dunaway, and Michiko Kobayashi. "Understanding Mobile
Technology-fit Behaviors outside the Classroom." Computers &
Education 87 (2015): 142-50. CCBC Library. Web. 14 Feb. 2016

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f)

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2.

a)

In Caitlin Deweys article, The Uber for Friends Plans to save Millenials from

Loneliness, Dewey interviews a professor who is the chair of a social media program at
Rutgers University and a developer with an interest in creating what he believes is the
next step in social media networking. The developer states in the article the reasoning
behind why he theorizes his app is the next step in the digitization of society as a whole.
The professor who was also interviewed briefly presents his own analysis as to why
networking apps similar to that of which the developer is behind is a trend as technology
progresses. All in all, the article speaks to the societal shift in what has become the status
quo of human interactions thanks to a number of elements digitization being the most
prominent.
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b)

Dewey, Caitlin. "The Uber for Friends Plans to save Millennials from
Loneliness." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2016. Web.
14 Feb. 2016.

3.

a) mobile technology February 2016

b) Eaton, Kit. "Find Out Whats New in Smartphones at Mobile World Congress." The
New York Times. The New York Times, 17 Feb. 2016. Web. 19 Feb. 2016.
c) I used the search engines Bing and Google.
d)
Number of
Subsections of

Search Engine

Results count

promoted links on

Relevance of

the first page

information
More links in-

the results.

depth stories
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related to the
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news section
topic than that of

ad-sponsored
Bing

results and no time

was placed
Google. The

links on the first

frame listed

lower than the

stories were very

page.

initial results
narrow and
of the search.
geared toward

Google

About

Zero promoted

specific brands.
Many links to

513,000,000

links on the first

general stories

Provided
promoted

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news links
about the topic.
results (0.40

section atop
page.

Less product

seconds)

the results
based story links.

4.

page.
a) The article was written and posted to the Washington Post on February 10, 2016.
There is no indication of whether or not the story has been updated since posted.
b) The article is relevant to the topic I researched because the article pertains to the
digitization of society and the connection to the advancement of mobile technology
directly affects the topic of the story in the Washington Post
c) In my opinion, the author is trustworthy due to the reputation of the publication she is
working with and the nature of the article does not indicate bias that would taint the story.
From what I read about the author, the author is qualified to write about the topic to me
because she does not inject much of her opinion into the story and presents the story in an
unbiased manner.
d) The information appears to be trustworthy because the story is presented from the
perspectives of the developer, the chair of the Rutgers program, and the common citizen
who may be unaware of certain aspects of social networking. There are links to other
stories placed throughout the article that can be viewed as evidence, due to the fact, some
of the article is backed up by the information in the links.
e) This article was written to inform and persuade in my opinion. I say this because the
article sheds light on information about certain aspects of the topic and the article also
promotes some of the interviewed developers business ventures.

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5.

a) The article from the Washington Post was more easier to access than the academic
journal covering the shift in technologys impact on education. I was able to simply read
the Washington Posts subsections to discover the story on the societal adjustments to
online networking. In contrast, discovering the academic journal on the effect mobile
technology has on classrooms took more work as I had to log into the CCBC library to
access the database versus simply viewing a publication like the Washington Post.
b) Both the article from the Post and the academic journal were not far out of date, yet
the Washington Posts story was more recent than the study conducted in the academic
journal. The academic journal was based on results of studies conducted and collected
leading up to 2014. The Washington Posts article was from February of 2016. The
Washington Post had the timelier article.
c) The academic journal had more qualified people involved in the creation of the journal
than the article in the Washington Post. The academic journal had studies conducted
from scholars and researchers to support and form the journal. The Washington Post had
many upstart and inexperienced people involved in the creation of their article I chose
besides the author.