Assignment #1 information literacy

Nicole Johnson

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Internet article
Mobile technology- Mashable.com
The article topic I chose is Mobile Technology. The new iPhone 6 Plus has been the talk of the
smartphone world. Equipped with the presumably bending feature which is call Bendgate its the
hottest tech rumor (ulanoff, 2014). In the article the iPhone 6 plus is a little flexible if you carry it in
your back pocket (ulanoff, 2014). The case is really the most flexibly part of the phone and the actual
phone material isnt made for bending. The author talked about how everywhere he went it was
conversations about this phone. He also shared peoples comments from twitter.
Two additional internet article / same topic
Key words- bend gate
Google search engine results- Huffingtonpost.com (kaufman, 2014)
Bing search engine results Digital Trends (pelegrin, 2014)
The results from the google search engine was better because the articles was easier to find. The Bing
search engine had a lot of videos. I had to really look thru different results to find articles related to
bend gate.
Evaluating one internet article
Huffingtonpost.com article
Time- the article was written on 09/28/2014 9:05 am EDT and updated on 09/28/2014 9:59 am
EDT
Relevance- yes. This article is about mobile technology.
Authority- the author name is Alexander C. Kaufman is an associate editor on The Huffington Post's
business desk. I clicked on the authors name underneath the webpage title.
Accurate- I believe the information is trustworthy and is supported by evidence.
Purpose- the article was written to inform consumers. The objective was to test the new iPhone
bendability.
Two scholarly articles from CCBC (Dundalk) library

SOSPhone: a mobile application for emergency calls (Paredes, Fonseca, Cabo, Pereira, & Fernandes, Aug
2014))
Rapid building damage assessment system using mobile phone technology
(Cimellaro, Scura, Renschler, Reinhorn, & Kim, 2014)
Assignment #1 information literacy
Nicole Johnson

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Key words- Mobile and Phone and technology
Database used- ProQuest science journals
Reason I choose this database- I figured technology is part of science thats why I chose this database.
Paragraph comparing one internet article and one scholarly journal
The internet article I researched was very easy to find and to understand. It is a current topic in mobile
technology. The author shared his point of view on the new iPhone bendability. Using the CCBC
database to find articles wasnt easy to find up to date articles on mobile technology.

I used APA Format
Bibliography
Cimellaro, G. P., Scura, G., Renschler, C. S., Reinhorn, A. M., & Kim, H. U. (2014). Rapid building damage
assessment system using mobile phone technology. 519-533.
kaufman, a. c. (2014, 09 29). iPhone 'Bendgate' May Be Overblown: Consumer Reports. Retrieved from
the huffingtonpost.com: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/28/bengate-consumer-
reports_n_5894024.html
Paredes, H., Fonseca, B., Cabo, M., Pereira, T., & Fernandes, F. (Aug 2014)). SOSPhone: a mobile
application for emergency calls. 277-290.
pelegrin, w. (2014, 09 29). Kids stupidly destroy iPhone 6 Plus in Apple Store to prove Bendgate is real .
Retrieved from digital trends: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/kids-stupidly-destroy-
iphone-6-plus-apple-store-prove-bendgate-real/
ulanoff, l. (2014, 09 29). The Apple iPhone 6 Plus 'BendGate' Is Already Out of Control. Retrieved from
mashable.com: http://mashable.com/2014/09/24/apple-iphone-6-plus-bendgate/