Mediums: Benefits and disadvantages

The benefits of using a print medium such as Philip did is that it reaches a different audience than Mike Wesch's YouTube video. Thurtle's can reach more to an older and more prestigious audience because often times the older generations do not use YOUTUBE as a source of knowledge. I know that I only started using it in college and would have used print much more. But if you are just talking about the use of video medium it brings people much closer to the research because you can see what the author is trying to say through pictures and words. Whereas through print medium one can only read and try to visulize what the author is trying to portray to the reader.

For my specific research project I believe that print medium makes the most sense. There is nothing to really portray through film that would be beneficial to the audience. Surveys and data collection can most easily be shown through a print medium.