http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog
1. Write down at least five adjectives that describe your first impressions after the link loaded.
2. Who writes this blog? Do you trust their information? Why or why not? How does the author attempt to create this sense of trust, or, conversely, how does s/he lose it?
3. Who reads this blog? How do you know? How does the blog send signals to the audience to let them know that this is something they'll want to read regularly?
4. What is the balance of multimedia content (pictures, videos, etc.) and text on the blog's main page? How does it compare to the other blogs you scanned? What does this blog's particular balance say to its potential audience?
5. Write down at least five adjectives that describe the author's "voice." What does s/he sound like? What kind of person is s/he? What are his or her interests? Would you hang out with them? Why or why not?
6. Would you consider returning to this blog regularly? Why or why not?
1. Boring, monotonous, bland, green, wordy.
ReplyDelete2. Multiple authors. Trying to make the blog seem trustworthy by posting contact information, and some original sources. Lose our trust by making the sources are hard to track down, need to access multiple links to get the original article.
3. People interested in breakthroughs in science and technology would read this blog regularly.
4. Balance is terrible. There is too much text, very few pictures, other forms of media. Each of the other blogs have more pictures, etc. Seems like a more well-read audience would read this blog.
5. We would not read this blog regularly.
1. Cute, Catchy, Natural, Funny, and Neutral
ReplyDelete2. Jason G. Goldman; we trust him because of his name and technical jargon and looks like an animal person;attaches himself to a university/uses credentials
3. intelligent and worldly people/colleagues;their comments;the pictures
4. mainly text and pictures, no videos; more pics and fun titles
4th site:
ReplyDelete1. white, clean, organized, formal, simple
2. The Guardian; we do trust because it's Consumer Publisher of the Year in the UK; They keep it formal and they make it known it's a well known company The Guardian), few external ads
3. People looking for a relevant news source because it's up to date and relevant, people who are interested in science, non-scholars because the terminology is easy to understand; by keeping regular, up to date posts.
4. One relevant picture per article, it has less pictures than the others, however; keeps only the most current stories, and you can click to read more for each entry so it's not overwhelming
5. There are multiple authors so not one single voice, but they all seem to be educated in what they're writing about but they are writing for the average person
6. no