Reflection 6

My dream holiday is to visit Japan for each of all of the 4 different seasons, as there is so much to see and enjoy in each of the seasons! And also, they say that if you go to japan, for each season it is very memorable.

Japan Autumn

Japan Summer

Japan Spring

Japan Winter

I've always admired the beauty of Japan, as seen on TV, especially every Saturday at 7.30pm, i would tune in to Channel News Asia, as it would be broadcasting 'Japan Hour'. This 'Japan Hour' would take you around Japan and visit the various popular destinations and good places to eat and also good hotels to stay in. Every time i watch the show, i am mesmerized by Japan's beauty when they travel around Japan.

Also, i occasionally visit Japanese restaurants with my parents or friends, as i like Japanese food very much, especially the Sushi and Sashimi that only Japanese cuisine offers. I also often read Manga and watch Anime whenever the English versions of Manga are released at bookstores or the anime are shown on Cable vision.

However, I do not understand Japanese very much ( i only know a few words...), so if i were to go to Japan, i would probably visit a tour agency to go there.

The website that I used is http://www.jnto.org.sg/default.asp

Purpose - I found this website because it is the Japan National tourism Organisation of Singapore, it promotes travelling to Japan. The main purpose of this website is quite obvious, as the name itself already describes its purpose, it is to promote people to visit Japan.

Accuracy - The website is managed by an organisation that is approved by the Japan Tourism Board of Japan, thus the information is official and definitely will be accurate.

Coverage - The website covers everything that you need to visit Japan, from the hotels, foods, travel routes, travel durations, etc. The website is very comprehensive, with the index of the useful information at the top of the page. it also has many links to the official websites that are based in Japan, and written in Japanese, but have English translations.

Accessibility - This website is accessible to anyone, and there is no need to register or log in require to view the whole web page. Unless the person wants to apply for a visa to go to japan, no information is required to be given to the website.

Presentation and arrangement - The information is well arranged and structured neatly, thus any visitor would not be at a lost, but rather be more informed than before.

Reflection 5

I used the criteria of currency to evaluate Stomp.com

I chose this criteria because citizen journalism is always about the latest news, latest trends etc, and without currency in a citizen journalism website like stomp.com, it would be a total failure. I learnt from this activity more about citizen journalism, and about the different criteria, like coverage - which is the content and information provided, currency - how up-to-date the news is, authority - how reliable the information is and accuracy - how in-depth the information is.

I feel that sharing my views on the wiki is really a good way of sharing information with other people, as sharing with people will help them gain different views from different people, and they can, based on their own values and norms, evaluate the differences and choose whether which views they want to follow. Also, wiki is really good, as people can collaborate together and produce high quality information. However, i am worried that some people who do not like each other will defame each other's posts, thus resulting in accurate information or misleading information, and this is bad. But i do not think anyone will do something like that, as wiki is based on trust, we should not breach this trust just for trivial matters.