Experiments in digital creation.

In our analysis and reading of Caulfield & WIneburg’s Verified, we learned how to conduct certain tests and analyses to determine if a website is credible and if it is to be trusted. The most interesting thing to me in the reading was in chapter one: the idea that instead of going on these philosophical…

Turns out the internet is full of lies 🙁 Did you know that you can’t trust everything that someone posts online? In case you didn’t, Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg are here to tell you why. In Chapter 1 of Verified, they explain that there are three kinds of context you should consider when taking…

This week consisted of readings from “Verified” by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg and a lesson on including images in a Markdown file. Markdown What fascinated me the most learning how images work with Markdown was seeing how file paths work. Each file and each folder is essentially another building block that you are working…

Put yourself in these shows. You are relaxing playing a video game when your friend sends you an article. He writes “Hey dude, you need to check this out, its crazy!!!” You trust your friend, so you look at the headline. Costco Guys to be Added to Mortal Kombat. You think “what, that’s crazy.” But…

Today, information is physically all around us. It is above our heads on billboards, by our feet on fallen posters, next to our shoulders on a bus stop flyer, and digitally, at the tips of our fingers. As media grows, we are presented with a surplus of messages every day and are bombarded in our…

There’s a habit to compare certain things that are really complex to something most people are familiar with. In this instance, I never thought of thinking about the Internet as my flashy new- probably manual- car. The problem we now run into is: where or what is the manual for this new car? There is…

Straight to the chase here, we read a book. These two random guys, Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg, decided they were going to write a book called “Verified” to help us “navigate the world and all of its little schemes.” Supposedly there is some major controversy on the web where there are “false” articles out…

If I learned anything from Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg’s Verified (specifically the introduction- chapter three), it is that a lot of websites, social media accounts, and newspapers CANNOT be trusted. Now this isn’t to say all forms of information on the internet are a lie and cannot be trusted, but what I am saying…

The internet can be a scary place. I’ve heard they let anyone on there. How can you be sure what you’re looking at is true information? How do you know if it’s a real news or research site, or just someone’s digital writing class blog? How can you be certain authors are telling the truth…

Have you ever been on the internet, clicked on a website that looks interesting, and been immediately showered in malware? One minute you’re reading an article that seems credible, and the next, you’re questioning if you just fell for some conspiracy theorist’s fever dream? Welcome to the wonderful world of the internet, where not everything…