Task:Look at the sites haggishunt and molossia.
1a) How have websites attempted to look authentic?
Website 1 - Haggis Hunt
Having nice advertising by reputable looking company's i.e. Gleneagles Hotel, Thistle and Broom
Abundance of Information
Very nicely designed website - great looking graphics
Website 2 - Molossia
Nice coat of arms
Colours of the country
Abundance of information - lots of different areas to go into.
4 Clues that give away sites as a joke
Haggis Hunt
Unusual names for people i.e. Farquhar Farquharson
Humouress descriptions of words i.e. drumnadrochit means a clean strike on a haggis with your meuran
Tongue in cheek language
Cameras placed in the middle of huge cities i.e. looking for a very shy, retiring, rare animal - highly unlikely.
The haggis looks very much like a platypus.
Molossia
2.5 hectares in USA ( i dont think America would tolerate this)
Their statement sounds like a popular song.
Picture of President - taken in front of a normal surburban house in America
His name doesn't sound very exotic
The pictures dont look very convincing
Their list of Festival Days are a bit strange ie Cookie Dough Day
2. Martin Luther King Website
2a,b) What I expected from Website
Being the web address with Org at the end, I didnt expect anything to special as opposed to a .edu ending. I expected to find information regarding MLK, contributed by lots of different people. ie their views and opinions
3. Not quite the respectful website I was expecting. I refer to the passage about him having sex and what he was supposed to be saying. This website is strongly biased against MLK, and writes information which is totally against the thoughts and beliefs that I think most people would have about him.
4. What do I think of the website?
Gene has suggested that this is a hate site. The articles are very radical, very racially biased and very uncomfortable to read. You have to ask yourself how did the writers come across this information about King having sex with prositutes, partying and beating up women. Is there any truth to it, does it need to be taken in context with other information.
This weeks lecture notes were about using the WWW and the differences between the web and the net. The lecture overview consisted of Internet v's Web, History of the Web,Defining the WWW, Web protocols, Web browsers/interface.
On the net you find computers, on the web you find information. Net connections are between computers, web connections are hypertext links. The Web was developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee to allow the sharing of research information.
Protocols:
TCP/IP - Transmission Control
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
DNS - Domain Name System
URL - Uniform/Universal Resource Locator
DNS - Domain Name System ie www in front of web addresses..com,.org,.edu top level domains, .au,.nz, country codes
The web is a universe of accessible information stored on computers throughout the world. The information is made available by a huge network called the Internet.
Web browsers are programs that allow users to access and explore the pages of the WWW. Browser interfaces are similar offering the same user tools for searching, looking around and saving snapshots of the Web.
The readings were basically about the history of the Web and Internet and how they got started. There was also some information about how to make your web searching much more productive and less time consuming.
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