Obtaining information from a newspaper that is print compared to a newspaper than can be accessed online can provide a different experience. A print newspaper will give a person a more hands-on experience because they can feel the paper and possibly get more out of it. Reading a newspaper online could definitely be described as being more handy because searching key words or phrases has become easy. Tony’s presentation on how accessing information has changed over time is the reason behind these assumptions I have made. He brought in old newspaper dating all the way back to Salem in the 1600’s, which was very intriguing to see. Comparing that newspaper to the databases we have today has just proved how far society has come when it comes to digital technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Milligan’s hypothesis that more people will begin to read certain papers such as the Toronto Star<\/em> because of databases is something that I can stand behind.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> I know for a fact that when I have accessed databases, I have used sources that I’ve never heard of or thought to use before. Another thing that was interesting from Milligan’s article was the fact that people have been citing more newspaper because of databases. After reading that, I came to my own conclusion that databases put forth more sources than a simple google search would. They basically open a more widespread and academic door vs. googling for a topic that one is doing research on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tony spoke briefly on digital projects and I formed my own opinion that I do believe they can create social change. I remember in class looking at own digital project that was teaching people about incarceration, but it really engaged the person and made them actually learn about the facts and troubles with it. Incarceration among many other things are some of the biggest social issues in the world today, so having a digital project that engages people but also has that ‘wow’ factor to it will really help educate people. <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Hopefully by educating people, it’ll open a door for change. If someone does a project on a social issue, I really believe that somehow, change could come just by a few people being educated on that issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Milligan, I. (2013, December). Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997\u20132010<\/em>. Retrieved from https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu\/article\/527016<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obtaining information from a newspaper that is print compared to a newspaper than can be accessed online can provide a different experience. A print newspaper will give a person a more hands-on experience because they can feel the paper and possibly get more out of it. Reading a newspaper online could definitely be described as … Continue reading “A New Way of Accessing Information”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}