Influencing Objectivity and Subjectivity Through Award Program Criteria

Introduction.Cultural practices, cognitive behavior, peertimes taking into account cognitive behavior, the more
groups, learned behavior and individual preferenceswe know the more we will discover and with
have a profound effect upon web site creations anddiscovery comes constancy.Cognitive StyleRiding and
award criteria-objectivity or subjectivity.In addition whatRayner (1998) contend that as individuals, we organize
our visitors want and can give and what we wish toand present information according to our understanding
give and want are not necessarily equal, becauseof information processed and filter this information
each group makes decisions and applications whichwhich transforms it to our own culture, peer groups
consider a representation, in terms of texturaland those whom we hold in esteem. We refer to this
descriptions or graphics, of webas cultural cognition theory (CCT). CCT is important in
content.ObjectivityPlato considered knowledgeweb and award development because we can
concerned with universal truths. To him personalobserve the total design which includes graphics, text,
opinions were simply irrelevant, since they belong in themusic and informational architecture and form a
area of change and were not fixed eternal. From Platostrategy not to penalize differences from that of our
we gained the core of modern ideology of science.Aown cultures. Such a strategy recognizes that cultural
feature of academic writing is emphasis on thebuilding blocks are well formed by young adulthood
information which the writer can give. Thoughts andand will take a considerable time to reconfigure, if at
beliefs are based upon what has been studied, learnedall.Measuring user understanding (an award criteria) by
and how this has enabled various conclusions, whichdifferent cultures (in a broad sense this applies to
would lead a reader to assume that any idea notregions even within the United States, educational
referenced is that of the author.When objectivity as abackground and so forth) involves operators which are
concept originally evolved, it did not mean that thoseknown to affect cognitive processes, such as
who write an award criteria or create a website wereshort-term and long-term memory and local and past
free from bias, rather the mission was to consistentlycultural experiences.Definition: The Modern technical
test information in a transparent approach, so thatdefinition of culture, as socially patterned human
personal and cultural bias would not undermine thethought and behavior, was originally proposed by the
award program. Then a thought to give a criteria fromnineteenth-century British anthropologist, Edward Tylor.
the most important to the least important, which wouldThis definition is an open-ended list, which has been
help an award seeker understand an unbiased andextended considerably since Tylor first proposed it.
uniform approach to award giving.In the originalSome researchers have attempted to create
concept the method was objective, not the awardexhaustive universal lists of the content of culture,
criteria creator. The key was in the discipline, not theusually as guides for further research.CitationsChoong
criteria itself. One implication is that of an impartialand Salvendy, 1999
writer who created a criteria from a neutral viewpoint,Chang and White, 1992
would transform from seeking awards themselves, toFarnen, 1993
innovation in observing, understanding or evaluation ofNisbett and Norenzayan, 2002
those who seek awards.At present older conventionsPrincipia Cybernetica, 1997
or understanding have not been expanded to matchE. Br. Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology, Wadsworth,
the new forms of Internet publications and2004
methodology and has done less to develop awardProject for Excellence in Journalism
criteria to accept diverse cultures or encompassPopper, Karl R. Objective Knowledge: An evolutionary
ideology beyond that held by the awardApproach, Oxford Press, 1972
creator.Cognitive Actions or FeaturesIn 1919, WalterAllen Megill, Rethinking Objectivity, London: Duke UP,
Lippmann and Charles Merz wrote the following1994Disclaimer: The citations, white paper and
account of reporting on the Russian Revolution. "In thecomments are neither a repudiation nor a criticism of
large, the news about Russia is a case of seeing notcurrent practices by anyone and is intended solely as
what was, but what men wished to see." In theirfactual information for all to consider if and when an
opinion, the news writers did not factor out certainauthor begins to revisit their own AP criteria, which is a
cognitive actions which would have resulted in anprocess promising to give longevity and credibility to
objective writing about the Russian Revolution.Oncewhat we are attempting through our individual efforts.
information is received by the sensory organs, it isEnjoy!Brings excellent experience to this role as owner
encoded and sent to the brain, like parsing a world intoof the Lancasters Laughing Place site and the elite
objects, making inferences, having associative memoryAward Sites! 5.0 rated Talking Hands Award Program,
and so forth. Once in the brain an action is initiated,knowledge of W3C and WAI issues and professional
which in some instances bears no resemblance tobackground as a senior partner, tax attorney
objectivity.When we write an award criteriaspecializing in international finance (now retired).
objectively, it is in terms of an actual object of thisMoreover, Denny administers a private foundation
world. One which we perceive with cognitive actionswhich builds free enabled computers for deaf and blind
like walking, grasping, rotation's or from afar withpersons throughout the state of Alabama and is a
stability with respect to action, but in these instancestalented poet.
with an award seeker, the observation at different