The author is the San Jose Sharks, most likely the team’s webmaster. The audience is anyone who is a hockey fan, most importantly the fans of the Sharks. Fans of other teams can go to the team’s website to see how their competition is doing. They have the site to keep fans informed on how the team is doing and the main things going on with some of the players. They use pictures that go along with the major head lines for the team that sets up ethos/credibility. It has a calendar that has all of their games on it along with all the scores for the past games. Logically, they use the main colors of the team, teal and now orange, as well as highlighting colors like white for the background of the major texts and the main background is darker so that the stories pop out to the viewers. The site is similar to the CNN site we were looking at in class. They both have a focus on one major thing, in the CNN case it was US news, but in the Sharks site they focused on the team with minor links at the top of the page to other teams and more things on their site.
It’s important to take a critical approach on a website because most websites don’t have the same credibility as articles or books that get published on paper. Plus you can get the same information from two different sites but they will be worded differently and set up completely opposite. We have to critically analyze the websites to be able to make sure that the information is fact and not just written by anyone.
It’s important to take a critical approach on a website because most websites don’t have the same credibility as articles or books that get published on paper. Plus you can get the same information from two different sites but they will be worded differently and set up completely opposite. We have to critically analyze the websites to be able to make sure that the information is fact and not just written by anyone.
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With so many different sources of information available on the internet it is important that you are sure the website you are looking at has credibility. This is especially important for a sport team's website such as the San Jose Sharks. When fans want to know something about their favorite team they want to get the right information.
I agree with you and Stephanie about making sure a website has credibility. Anyone can post anything they want on a their site and some may be made up or taken from a different source. You have to take a critical approach to analyzing a site so that you can make sure the information you are getting is the correct and accurate information.
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