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The World Wide Web is highly complex, having the capacity to offer access to information and data all over the world. highly complex the capacity or potential one has The World Wide Web offers information and data from all over the world. Because so much information is available, and because that information can appear to be fairly “anonymous”, it is necessary to develop skills to evaluate what you find. When you use a research or academic library, the books, journals and other resources have already been evaluated by scholars, publishers and librarians. Every resource you find has been evaluated in one way or another before you ever see it. When you are using the World Wide Web, none of this applies. There are no filters. Because anyone can write a Web page, documents of the widest range of quality, written by authors of the widest range of authority, are available on an even playing field. Excellent resources reside along side the most dubious. The Internet epitomizes the concept of Caveat lector: Let the reader beware. This document discusses the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet. Generally, when we think of the impact that the internet has had on our economy, we think of consumer goods and services only. Many observations suggest that the use of Internet technology is starting to change firm and industry structure (i.e., European Commission 1998). Brynjolfsson et al. (1994) show that the use of information technology (IT) reduces firm size, because it reduces external coordination costs more than internal costs. Dewan et al. (1998) and Hitt (1999) reveal that increased IT use is negatively associated with vertical integration and weak-positively related with diversification, because of reduced internal and external coordination costs. Together, these results of empirical studies suggest that the use of information systems tends to reduce the degree of industry-level integration, creating more “open” industries. However, recent mergers and acquisitions in the media and entertainment industry appear to contradict the findings of information systems researchers.
Approximate Word count = 1400
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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