Huge Solar Flare Jams Radio, Satellite Signals: NASA - Yahoo! News." The Top News Headlines on Current Events from Yahoo! News. 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110217/sc_afp/usastronomytelecomnasachina_20110217095946>.
This topic is about an X class solar flare. It talks a little bit about some electronic disruption in China. It also talks about previous X class solar flares that have happened in the past. It does have some bias in the article or missing pieces to it. The article doesn't exactly tell you how bad a X class solar flare is. Is this class of a solar flare something to be worried about or is it something that happens often? It also doesn't really talk about what exactly a solar flare and why they happen. This information is easy to find just by googling but why didn't they add it? The reason could be that there limited as to what to say because its a new article.
The article doesn't talk about the future. It leaves me wondering are more of these going to be happening. It makes you wonder about the whole 2012 scare. Part of the reason people are scared is because the planets are supposed to a line and is this new solar flares because its getting close? It could be that these things don't happen often so they didn't talk about the future. Also another reason is the article is focused on informing of news and keeping it interesting. If they were to be to scientific it could lose there readers.
The topic about china and there telecommunications disruptions is very vague. There is not very much information on it. They don't talk about whats affected and if it could get worse. The reason this article might not have very much information on what happened in China could be because nothing major really happened. Another reason maybe they didn't report much is because there is no information to report.
After reviewing this article the reason for a lot of missing information is from being a news article. I believe that news articles are limited as to what they say so they don't lose the average reader. There just there to get out the information in a simple way.
Hi Tim:
ReplyDeleteInteresting source. And I agree that news articles tend to limit the information they present, based off a consideration for their audience.
Considering your potential research question, for the second write-up due Wednesday I'd strongly urge you to find something that can more easily inform your final unit project. Otherwise, you'll be doing a bunch of catch-up work (not fun!) at the end.
I'd also try to find a source that's a bit richer with information. By using complicated sources, you can better enrich the quality of your final product.
Finally--and I'll be sending out a class-email to address this later--make sure to use Wysocki's analytic framework to inform the discourse analysis due Wednesday.
Keep up the good work!