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Revision for networking - Coggle Diagram
Revision for networking
Academic publications
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Disadvantages
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As publishing can take as long as a year to publish elements some parts of the text books can be out of date
E-learning
WWW (World wide web)
The world wide web is not regulated so this means that it is a open and democratic platform for all however there were also idea that if the world wide web where in the wrong hands could be a destroyer of world
E-Learning is learning that takes places online/electronically users can acess elearning platorms or packages resources may include text files, videos, animation and audio an example of this would be quizzes
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Websites Google Search
Disadvantages
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There are aroud 252k new webpages are added to the WWW each day making the SERP pages very large and hard to find reliable sources.
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Advantages
search engines allow for an extensive list of possible sources to be generated in miliseconds on the result page.
Algoriths search through the sources to give the most accureate list of relevant soruces. the most relevant will be at the top of the SERP page.
Processes
Indexing
Indexing is when the search engine has a chance to start appearing in relevant searches and generates traffic
Ranking
Ranking uses search algorithms where it looks at many factors and signals including what the users search up and relevance and how well the page is working as well as others.
Crawling
The crawling process is the process of finding new or updated pages and adding them to the search engine (crawling could also be known requests)
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Supplier Literature
A supplier literature is a formal document such as a manual supplied with a device this may be a hard copy or customers will be given a digital link. It is a reliable source of information as it is produced by the manufacture.
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White paper
1) An information document providing details of a solutions or product that an organization sells or plan to sell.
The information document (1st example) is the most relevant to the digital sector. The paper will provide technical and factual information that a product may solve a problem or challenge. The information will be a reliable source.
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Reliability and validity
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Selection bias
There will be little consideration of a range of demographic groups, including their opinions and views
Bias
Bias - relates to the opinions and vies of the author. they could have evidence to substantiate their opinion or may have selected only those that agree with your own.
Cultural bias
Views that are based on the assumptions different demographic group without a valid amount of information on the views of both sides
Author expertise
Author expertise - is a team of authors may have written a publication the WWW is easy to check the institution. The date is also key meaning the information may not still be valid
Subjectivity
This is information from only one view point. It may include assumptions or interpretations of a topic which is rarely backed by citations and evidence. example would be media
Context
A published work will have a main context for example an academic paper would have a specific course or information however if its a piece of work it does not fully address the content or changes its focus part way through the reliability and validy may be drawn into question and may also make it irrelevant to you as a source..
Inteded audience
The target a peice of work is intended, is also a key aspect when considering the reliability and validity of the source this will take the use of technical and non techical considerations. For example if the source has been found which is below the inteded audiences level of knowlege or the techinicals terms used are misunderstood by the user it could been seen as unreiable or invalid.
Citations, evidence and corroboration of sources
A citation is a method that informs the reader where the third party source of information had origniated from. The third part material may be:
A quote
A idea
Specific reference to the work of another author
Someone else's work that has been critical in establishing ideas.
A citation needs to include enough information to enable it to be located for example an author, title, publisher and the date it was pulsihed along with the page number or URL