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If a person wishes to be up to date on what is going on the world around them, in all facets and walks of life, then they must spend a considerable portion of time merely skimming the water of each pool of knowledge, never having the time to truly sink their feet in. This correlates directly back to the massively increased availability of information and writings, whose shoulders Birkerts puts the blame of our loss upon. Nicholas Carr cites a study done on the “behavior of visitors to two popular research sites” which gives its users an even larger degree of online texts.

The ultimate reason Marshal Poe does this is to illustrate his views on information sharing and depict the communities role in it. Poe mentions, “Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative gathering the world has ever known, and it may well be the greatest effort in voluntary collaboration of any kind.”, in the very beginning of his article to present his view on collaboration within the community. He describes wikipedia as “the most comprehensive repository of human knowledge in human history.” (Poe 349) This serves to contribute to the idea that information sharing lies within both the community and technology, which was also shown by Marshall Poe upon his discussion of the usage of the bottom-up system and cathedral model. Marshall Poe is ultimately stating that when power is given to the public, they will use it to their own advantage and promote true knowledge, as exemplified through his new and improved biography on Wikipedia. Information sharing is contributing to the progress of human

Information is power, which is why companies such as Google and Facebook are experts at capturing information and using it as a part of their strategic competitive advantage.

In the modern world people operate their businesses and practically live their lives through the Internet, the use of social media, and easily obtainable information. Although easy access to nearly everything and everyone has many advantages, there are plenty disadvantages that accompany social media and easily obtainable information. If the world only knew how becoming aware of the rewards and drawbacks of social media and the ability to access information with ease people may change how they practice and consume it, especially when understanding the need to further question the reliability of their sources. It is important to understand the advantages,

When it comes to the topic of Wikipedia, most of us will readily agree that you can get some valuable information from the website. Where this agreement usually end, however, is on the question of credibility. Whereas some are convinced that the website is a waste of time, other maintains that it can serve some purpose. Wikipedia has certain guidelines that must be met before a person can submit an article; it must have been covered in an academic journal or in the mainstream media. This is a way to ensure that the information is accurate. There is also a person who monitors the website to check information that is submitted. So before a person goes and dismisses the thought of using Wikipedia they should at least take a chance and see what

In the essay “The Net Is a Waste of Time” by William Gibson, he talks about how he is an “avid browser of the World Wide Web.” While people find this to be odd and his wife finds it positively perverse, Gibson thinks differently saying “I, however, scent big changes afoot, possibilities that were never quite as manifest in earlier incarnations of the Net” (Gibson 691). While some people think he is wasting his time with the web, he believes it will be the tool of the future. Even though the internet has greatly changed since Gibson wrote this essay, I believe that the internet will continue to grow, and will become a bigger part of our everyday lives.

Neil Irwin of The New York Times writes of Amazon: “The online retailer is on a collision course with Walmart to try to be the predominant seller of pretty much everything you buy. Each one is trying to become more like the other — Walmart by investing heavily in technology, Amazon by opening physical bookstores and now buying physical supermarkets.” Something similar, says Irwin, is happening in “nearly every major industry,” benefiting “the biggest and best-run organizations, to the detriment of upstarts and second-fiddle players.”

   After last weeks lecture on FOSS services, I would agree with Dr. Borland’s argument when he states “that the development and structure of many FOSS communities are now inspiring a new generation of citizens to consider how they can become more than simply consumers, by engaging as active participants in digital community-based collaborations.” (Borland, 2016) In regards to this weeks lecture, I was caught off-guard at first to see that Wikipedia was the topic. Wikipedia is defined as “a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,” that purposely encourages members of the general public to become involved in the creation and editing of its articles (Wikipedia, 2015,

The World Wide Web was first created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, under the philosophy that it would begin as, and remain, an “open and free” platform of expression. It was believed that a neutral [open] web could promote innovation and development of technologies in an environment where individuals’ speech and collaboration overpowered large corporations. Recently, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have jeopardized the open nature of the web by opposing net neutrality, the idea that “all data on the internet should be treated equally by corporations, such as internet service providers, and governments, regardless of content, user, platform, application or device.”

Lots and lots of stuff (opinions,stats, etc.) on the net equals Democratic potential. Phrased differently, what’s important is not that messages are being understood and responded to, as much as the fact that they contribute to the constantly enlarging steam of content. For Dean, messages lose their specificity in communicative capitalism; stripped of their singularity, they simply become part of a massive data flow.

One of the reasons Wikipedia works so well is the fact that it is not only an online encyclopedia but how it is referenced for information. The information found on the website has a lot of substance and facts that are useful for anyone looking up articles. It is the largest and most popular online encyclopedia with millions of volunteer contributors and is published in hundreds of languages. Wikipedia is straightforward and simplistic in technology to make browsing easier for novices or experienced users alike. A lot of volunteer contributors contribute to Wikipedia and the data is constantly updated with current events. Another question would be, “Why do people write or contribute their knowledge for Wikipedia without credit?” Since

knowledge that is shared to the world through new media? Why do we create our own

Yochai Benkler stated in his TED talks video that “a new social phenomenon is emerging, a new set of social relations and behaviors are emerging and paving the way for self-expression, new opportunities, and collaboration”. In this statement, Benkler means that the Internet is a catalyst. It is powerful tool that opens a whole new world, connecting people from all over the world. There is no doubt the Internet is changing the way we look, create, and share the economics of information. One way we do so is through crowdsourcing.

This article talks about the different ways that wikipedia can be harmful to you research and also the way that wikipedia can help with your research. The article states that Wikipedia is a good source to use in the beginning stages of your research when selecting topics. Wikipedia is good for being research because it gives you a brief yet informative summary on your topic. Wikipedia can also help by giving you links to more credible articles on the particular topic that can be researching. The article also mentioned that wikipedia is also good for coming up with ideas to do research on; because if you type broad topic in wikipedia you are most likely to find topics within that article. Those sub topics that you find on wikipedia will be current and relevant to you target audience because wikipedia is always being updated.

Why? ü  The development of the World Wide Web ü  The internet had evolved into a consumer-driven network, supported by user friendly interface of Web-browsing software ü  High accessibility ü  Consumers grew more web-savvy & became more trusting in the security of online services