Online Research
From digmovements
Describe the group: What are the group's specific cause(s) and activities within your larger topic? How big is it? Is it a formal organization? How is it funded? How long has it been around? What are its stature and reputation in its field? Describe its website: How is the website structured? Static webpages? Blog? Wiki? How easy is the navigation to follow? (ie, How successful is its information architecture?) What does the group want the website to do? The groups main cause is promote universal health care. The age of the Organization is unknown. It is a very formal organization. It appears to be funded by both donations and corporations. It appears to be very credible.
Describe the group's online actitivism: How does the group use the website to reach out to members? Nonmembers? Are there opportunities for read-write communication? Does it offer downloadable resources? What does the website ask its readers to do? For the most part it appears that this site is a informational website that gives details about how to get active when it comes to health care reform. It does not offer any downloadable content. It ask the reader to further understand the complexities of universal health care
Critique the website: Does the website succeed? Is its content well documented? Is it fair and balanced? Is it readable and well written? Is its rhetorical tone scholarly? Friendly? Polemical? Does the website's look and feel fit with and help convey the group's over all message? Is the hosting application appropriate the website's content and goals The website does a pretty good job of getting its point across although I feel there is almost too much information and the layout is a bit hard to understand. It appears to be very credible and resourceful however.
Draw conclusions: Does this group's use of the web on this website constitute meaningful activism? Does it contribute to tangible results? From the look of things it seems like they are rather effective in getting what the want from their website.
Describe the group: What are the group's specific cause(s) and activities within your larger topic? How big is it? Is it a formal organization? How is it funded? How long has it been around? What are its stature and reputation in its field? UHCAN main goal is to promote universal health care. It appears to be a national organization that is spread out around the USA. It is funded by donations, and by both private and public sources. It appears to have a great deal of credibility.
Describe its website: How is the website structured? Static webpages? Blog? Wiki? How easy is the navigation to follow? (ie, How successful is its information architecture?) What does the group want the website to do? It is a static website that is mainly read only content. It is very readable.
Describe the group's online actitivism: How does the group use the website to reach out to members? Nonmembers? Are there opportunities for read-write communication? Does it offer downloadable resources? What does the website ask its readers to do? Much like the other website this website main focus is information. It reaches out to its members by providing a service of information on how to get active when it comes to health care. The site provides a outlet for people to feel connected to the movement of bringing about national health care.
Critique the website: Does the website succeed? Is its content well documented? Is it fair and balanced? Is it readable and well written? Is its rhetorical tone scholarly? Friendly? Polemical? Does the website's look and feel fit with and help convey the group's over all message? Is the hosting application appropriate the website's content and goals I think as a website thats main goal is to inform it does a good job of getting what it needs to get done. It seems to be more slanted toward it's cause but it is after all a site with a certain focus.
Draw conclusions: Does this group's use of the web on this website constitute meaningful activism? Does it contribute to tangible results? It does a good job in providing a place for activism as it is easy to read and navigate.
