Emmanuella Offiah

Information Literacy
Question 1
a. Privacy on Social Media
b. SocINDEX
ScienceDirect
c. I chose these databases because they are reliable.
d. Zemmels, D., & Khey, D. (2015). Sharing of Digital Visual Media: Privacy Concerns and
Trust Among Young People. American Journal Of Criminal Justice, 40(2), 285-302.
doi:10.1007/s12103-014-9245-7 (APA)
e. Bright, L. F., Kleiser, S. B., & Grau, S. L. (2015). Too much Facebook? An exploratory
examination of social media fatigue. Computers In Human Behavior, 44148-155.
doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.048 (APA)
f.

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Question 2
a. Privacy has become a very interesting issue especially in the world of social media.
According to article Florida public schools to spy on students' social media, report says
published on CNET.com, Orange County Public Schools District has decided to track the
online activities of their students. As stated on the website the software spyware is to
proactively prevent, intervene and (watch) situations that may impact students and staff,
the District plans on spying on Facebook, twitter, YouTube, and Instagram for specific
keywords.

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b. Citation (Website 1 APA)
Matyszczyk, C. (2015, May 29). Florida public schools to spy on students' social media, report
says. Retrieved June 6, 2015, from http://www.cnet.com/news/florida-public-schoolsto-spy-on-students-social-media/

Question 3
a. Privacy issues with social media
b. Citation (Website 2 APA)
Jayson, S. (2014, March 12). Social media research raises privacy and ethics issues. Retrieved
June 6, 2015, from http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/08/data-onlinebehavior-research/5781447/

c. Search Engines
i.
Google
ii.
Bing

d.
EVALUTION
GOOGLE provided over

GOOGLE
About 71,800,000 results

BING
21,400,000 results

30 million more results

(0.39 seconds)

(unknown seconds)

than Bing.
GOOGLE provided more

More reputable sites

Less reputable sites

reputable sites than Bing.

BING provided more

Less recent

More recent

recent search results than

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Google.
GOOGLE provides more

More relevant

Less relevant

results that are related or

relevant to what I was
looking for than Bing.
In general Google is better than Bing, but it depends on what the person is looking for
because if a person is looking for fewer searches that are more recent than Bing would be
a better option than Google.
Question 4
a. Time: it was written on the 29th of May 2015 by 4:26 PM PDT
b. Relevance: Yes, it relates to my topic.
c. Authority: Chris Matyszczyk is the author of the article. Yes, he is qualified to write
about this topic. Chris is a multi-award winning executive creative director with some
of the most celebrated advertising agencies in the world; his work has been
recognized at various festivals around the world including the Cannes Advertising
Festival and Clio and his writing has appeared in such publications as the Financial
Times and the European; he uses his company Howard Raucous LLC as a medium to
advise major global companies. And he was once Senior Vice President, Executive
Creative Director of Bcom3s Highway One in San Francisco where he launched
eBooks for Microsoft; In general Chris is an expert in both technology and writing
and this makes him qualified to write about this topic.
d. Accurate: yes, various other reputable news sites reported the same story.
e. Purpose: it was written to inform and it is not biased.

Question 5
a. Ease of access: the DB article 1 was more difficult to locate than the Internet article 1
b. Timeliness: the DB article 1 is more recent than the Internet article 1
c. Authority: the DB article 1 has a higher authority than the Internet article 1