4A Assignment

Sorry I am just posting this after all the other assignments thought I had posted it already until I had a look through my blog

Article One

1. The main purpose of this article is: To make people aware of how ineffective the Internet is at supplying good affective treatments for sexually transmitted diseases, and just how much the Internet lacks the amount of information that is required to be a suitable treatment. It looks into the nature of the products as a search was carried out to find which were the most and least affective.

2. The key question that the author is addressing is: How little the public are to the hazards there are to purchasing drug from the Internet, and what can advertisers do to help prevent the spread of transmission and how much they rely on the Internet for a suitable source.

3. The most important information in this article is:
• Search tools on the Internet
• Advise available to public along with suitable treatments
• Harmful reactions

4. The key secondary sources used are:
• Websites through search engines (Google, Yahoo etc.)
• Number of products distributed from certain country's
• Cost of paying for products
• Awareness of Internet Advise

5. The key primary sources used are:
• Internet search engines (Google, Yahoo etc.)
• PubMed journal

6. The main inferences/conclusions in this article are: That the public should be educated on the dangers of using self-treatment of STIs, particularly where preventative measures are essential in stopping re-infection. Government agencies could explore the possibility of using the same search engines that are used by potential customers of these products, ensuring that similar searches also return prominent links to promotional sites warning of the dangers and giving appropriate preventive advice.

7. The key concept(s) we need to understand in this article is/are: That the Internet is not always reliable, who knows where the drugs are coming from and how affective they will be, they may be remedies for another disease and can be harmful to people. How much would a person know about a certain type of STI and would they use this knowledge to find out more.

8. The main assumption(s) underlying the author’s thinking is (are): I think the author is trying to aware people just how ineffective the Internet really is for obtaining remedies to prevent the spread of an STI and prevent it from eve coming back, and how ineffective they can also be as well, are people just looking at the first thing they see and do they know where they are buying them from?

9. If we take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are: That the government does need to step up and do its part to prevent to sale of treatments from other countries and spread more knowledge through advertising to the public on the best advise to take and where to find it by practices or reliable sites on the Internet.

10. If we fail to take the author’s line of reasoning seriously, the implications are: People may want to take the cheapest option which would be to pay from another country and without realizing, risk being harmed through inappropriate remedies, also a bad advertising campaign could cost a lot of money and not help peoples awareness in any way.

11. The main point(s) of view presented in this article is (are):
• Lack of advertising and information
• More reliable sites can help reduce peoples risk of suffering
• The Internet is used a lot and more needs to be done to tackle inappropriate sites

Article Two

1. The main purpose of this article is: Let people know just how little is being done to educate teenagers of the risks that can be caused by sexually transmitted diseases and how they can be prevented form both contracting and spreading throughout the public.

2. The key question that the author is addressing is: Where do teenagers get their knowledge from and how can they be used to improve their awareness of STI's and their dangers, can more be done in schools at home and on the TV

3. The most important information in this article is:
• Questionnaire study
• Schools education on the subject
• What sources are the most helpful

4. The key secondary sources used are:
• The questionnaire study
• Comparing the most affective sources such as TV, books, parent etc.
• Schools teachings

5. The key primary sources used are:
• School students
• Questionnaire

6. The main inferences/conclusions in this article are: That the teenagers who took the questionnaire were seriously lacking the correct amount of knowledge they should know about safe sex and the dangers that can be cause if the right precautions are not followed appropriately, and that most of them stated that television was the most reliable source for finding these sort of things out rather than from schools.

7. The key concept(s) we need to understand in this article is/are: That not enough is being done, there is not a lot a advise or information with advertising campaigns to allow teenagers to want to get involved in using protection, we should not just assume that they know enough about it already so we should also do our part and teach them about it with the knowledge that we know about them.

8. The main assumption(s) underlying the author’s thinking is (are): the author is trying to show just how little their children are being taught about how to protect themselves, this may be because teachers may feel to embarrassed to talk to students about them and that other sources such as television cannot always be left to teach young people.

9. If we take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are: That more should be done in school to teach teenagers, this can be done by bringing in someone to make aware the dangers, this need not be a teacher but someone that a pupil can feel they can talk to rather than feel embarrassed with. Television can be used so much for advertising the right messages during times on the TV of programs that are aimed at teenager during commercials such as Hollyoaks, even soaps can help out with this.

10. If we fail to take the author’s line of reasoning seriously, the implications are: It may be quite costly to create a advertising campaign especially if not enough research and development has not been put into the campaign as this would help it fail dramatically, also teenagers may not want to watch it willingly on their own.

11. The main point(s) of view presented in this article is (are):
• Not enough education on sexually transmitted diseases

• Television does not always have the right answers
• Not enough rese=ources are giving out enough information as well.