In This American Life’s podcast “Giant Pools of Money” they use prerecorded events, such as an award show or community event as background noise to enhance the settings and deliver exposition, while also pulling the reader into the situation the podcasters are examining. Prerecorded interviews from different people to contrast views, which in turn shape the readers opinions of the topics and people mentioned in the piece. The podcast even going as far as to switch to a whole new prerecorded research section, supplied by NPR, for the first main segment of the podcast. Each piece of sound recording helped bring the listener into the research interview process that took place and is being discussed on the podcast. Examples from podcast are linked here: https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B4IWWO4FSY4zalQ5T2p6WjAwWWs/edit

In Stacy Schiff’s article “Know It All” she discusses the topic of Wikipedia, compares it to other encyclopedias, and how Wikipedia  has impacted the modern world of researching, obtaining and learning new information. She explains how the creator of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, created the site  to generate a free encyclopedia that anyone around the world can access and read. However, Schiff also states how Wikipedia is “more immune to human nature than any other utopian project” due to the fact that anyone can edit a page on Wikipedia. However most traditional encyclopedias make sure each of the pages on a topic is factual, neutral, and  that the information it represents comes from a reliably knowledgeable source. But since Wikipedia is not as selective with the way it obtains information for the site it decides to include on its pages as more prestigious or scholarly encyclopedias, people have to be more cautious with taking the information on Wikipedia for fact, but those who do misinterpret information on Wikipedia may fall victim to supporting false knowledge, ignorance, and bias. This new problem has greatly impacted the younger generation as they have become accustomed to relying on the Internet when looking for the truth, but not necessarily checking to make sure it is correct. Leading to more widespread misinformation and a world of people whose confidence of their knowledge is built on fabrications instead of  legitimate knowledge. And since my peers and I are part of this younger generation, I would prefer not to live in the world where broadcasted gossip is taking as factual evidence. Because once you get enough people to believe in something it becomes accepted as a truth. Causing there to be no way for society to separate what is fact from fiction or right from wrong sending the world into chaos and rendering everyone into confident idiots. Which is why highly visited sites like Wikipedia are so important in the world of technology and information today.