3-2 Blog: Unrestricted Web Publishing

            Today I came across an interesting article I have located on the New York Times website titled Pass the Word: The Phone Call is Back, written by New York Times Journalist Jenna Wortham. Within this article she explains how the voice call has converted from talking on the phone on a daily basis routine to technology growing and basic phone calls turned in to text messages, video chat, emails and social media post since the 1950’s to modern day. Clearly Wortham has no bias opinion and only state what she see’s and feels about the topic.Within this article Wortham gives her opinion on the topic based off of her personal experiences and from app creators and independent analyst such as Cheta Sharman who follows the wireless industry, who discusses how American Households are transferring over to mobile, also Alan Braverman, an entrepreneur who is deleloping and app called Sobo, which is described as an “audio version of twitter”. Aside Wortham’s personal opinion and experiences, I questioned, how credible her sources may be? When she listed a few percentages explaining how the number of voice minutes increased 14% in the last year in the United States, stating that the numbers increased to 2.62 trillion, from 2.3 trillion.

1.     It is known that Jenna Wortham has the authority in this field because she works for the New York Times Technology department, working in this department it is her job to conduct studies on the worlds current technology usage.

2.     Worthham does list where she received her content from, identifying her sources to develop the information she has listed. When she mentions figures in the article she provides a link to the actual figures listed by the CTIA. Wortham also gives a few names with quotes but doesn’t list where these bits of information came from, only listing the given quote providing the name of who gave the quote.

3.     All information that Wortham mentions in her article is all up to date and state current facts to back her research.

4.     Wortham does not reference her sources within the article but does link the reader to the websites where here sources were produced.

5.     This article that Wortham has created for the New York Times also has a print version but appears as the same article posted on the World Wide Web. With the same information provided online and in print I feel she has reached all points she was trying to get across on the topic.

6.     I feel Wortham’s article can be considered as a news and journalistic site because it is a national publication in the United States, some may consider it as an international site due to it being on the World Wide Web, and people all over the world are able to access its content.

7.     This article was constructed on the New York Times website, listed as a blog post  (blogs&partners) established a New York Times technology department faculty member/partner.

      Overall this article created by Jenna Wortham covers the point she was trying to get across and the sources used were linked to its origins.

Wortham J. (September 20th, 2014) Pass The Word: The Phone Call is Back. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/pass-the-word-the-phone-call-is-back/?_php=true&_type=blogs&partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0