PROJ Topic: ANALYSIS (WIKIS)

For my online course, CIS 3810's term project assignment, I choose choice (B) ANALYSIS. I choose wikis as my new media technology to study. I believed that it will be an interesting topic to analyze this technology's positive and negative effects on society. Without realizing it, we are constantly using wikis, online forums such as yahoo answer, wiki answers, wikipedia, etc..to solve our daily questions or even our schoolwork problems. So I think it will be great to do an analysis on a new media technology that most people are basically using everyday. Obviously, internet users like myself are overwhelmed by these new media technology available on Internet. Most of the new media technology such as networking and blogging are launch to appeal to younger people but at the same time, there are these new media technology such as wikis and emails that become essential tools for professionals. Of course, everything have its downside and wikis' new media technology has its own too, such as the abuse of new media technology usage, irresponsible post with inaccurate information and etc. Besides looking for wikis' effects on society through books and online's academic databases, I will also look at how the overall new media technology's effects affected the society and what are its advantages and disadvantages in order to achieve a fully through analysis project.