The articles listed are all written by John Suler, Ph.D. although he does advise other authors may be included and identified. Suler's pages are situated on the Rider University, NJ domain. Suler is a Clinical Psychologist active in the field among his patients, peers and students. This site links to his other websites and affiliations which offer more investigation and research on many Internet related activities centred around human psychology. I get the impression he is writing to inform and it is fair to say that Suler's entire network of sites is a personal academic diary of his continued interest in "The Psychology of Cyberspace". The articles contain appropriate academic references and they are set out using subheadings for quick scanning of content, such as the article shown below:
- Which is better, an annotation with or without a screenshot?
A picture says a thousand words but a screenshot cannot. An annotation is more informative and answers key questions I would ask about the source, relevance and reliability of the subject. Snapshots of a site do provide a good visual cue of what the page should/might look like but it shows very little detail. A bigger screenshot doesn't really help as I'd rather just click and go to the page to read more that way. But, if the site had a diagram or flowchart, a screenshot would be helpful I think. Apart from that though I would stick with plain text anno's and a hyperlink.
For anyone else who might come across my 'site information preview', I'd like to use both methods: picture and text. The annotation is the best way for users to read about a site, providing it is an informative and helpful precis of course! Then I think a screenshot might also be useful, to make it easier for readers to visit the site if they did find the annotation interesting. The screenshot could be a clickable visual cue.
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