Week 7 - Response To Content

Wikipedia and Facebook

Wikipedia
I find that Wikipedia is steadily becoming more reliable in its content, which in turn makes it more useful to internet users. When Wikipedia began it was a place for people to create descriptions of anything they saw fit, through steady growth this led to it becoming a haven for shared knowledge and has grown into a worldwide database for information on almost anything. Now that the website has a reputation it has decided to place restrictions on how easy it is to access and change information, making it too time consuming for those who want to put in false information and allowing the information to become trusted and referenced.

Facebook
Facebook is a place for people to access other people’s lives from the comfort of their own home, but where this works is that you can only see those who allow you to see. This concept works well for the population as a whole as there is always a certain element of fear on the internet, fear of stolen information and unwanted attention, but in turn there is always the curiosity of other peoples lives and Facebook provides this with ease.
Personally, I have no issue with the constant privacy concerns associated Facebook and the internet, and don’t feel a need to ever shut down my Facebook account. The only real reason for shutting it down may be the uprising of a new social media.


Produsage and Citizen Journalism

Produsage
 The profit in produsage may come in the form of a reciprocal usage of all items, being that the user is also the producer one can assured of the necessity of the product to the user and the producer. Therefore, the product no longer leaves its creator and awaits its users, if any but is created with the intention of being used by the producer, creating a constant flow of usage and keeping a product in constant flow instant of a dead end. Other users may be encouraged by this and feel the need to also use it.

Citizen Journalism
Citizen journalism is simply an expansion on traditional journalism, giving a new perspective on an industry that has become dated and filled with intentional and unintentional misinformation. It is through citizen journalism that we as a viewer are allowed a more personal approach to the situation and given information that may have previously been withheld. Without this type of journalism, the traditional style maintains control over the content that we are allowed to view.