Thursday, February 10, 2011

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.
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  1. Elgreco590February 16, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    I'm actually taking this class, LIB3040, it's main focus is how information and society are related. Surprisingly enough, our professor accepts the use of Wikipedia as a source. He argues that, like in business, Group Think, is a positive resource. So in essence, because Wikipedia is the collaboration of many minds, you are given better/more accurate information due to the amount of people involved in creating that specific Wiki page. Just thought this could be a point you could argue in your project.

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  2. Alisa GohMarch 1, 2011 at 10:52 AM

    Hi Yili,

    That is a great topic! Many people (including me) would just go on the internet and search away. Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites you can use to find information about whatever we are interested in. Unfortunately the accuracy of Wikipedia is questionable. Is it a reliable source? Even the creators of Wiki admitted that not every entries are accurate and might not be the best source. So its interesting because so many people rely on Wiki.

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