Discuss issues that came up in the lecture:
*How is Wikipedia useful?
*Has anyone here edited Wikipedia? How hard is it?
* Why does Facebook work?
* What would it take for you to close down your Facebook account?
* Where is the profit to be made in produsage?
* Is citizen journalism the end of traditional journalism?
Or any other topics that emerge from the lecture and readings.
Wikipedia is one of the most well known and most used sources online, that people turn to for definitions or basic information on any topic you can think of. It is highly useful in the sense, as it gives you a basic idea of the topic and is extremely easy to use. It provides hyperlinks to definitions, for words people may not understand. There are however, many criticisms of Wikipedia and its credibility. It is stated in the First article journal that the ‘power structure within Wikipedia is invisible, vague and opaque, giving rise to a tyranny of structurelessness’ (Kostakis, V. 2010). Wikipedia is often seen as an unreliable source, as anyone can post ideas and information on the site; however it is most defiantly useful as a beginning to any research. With Wikipedia an individual can start with searching their topic using and then find useful references which will then lead them to the original text that the quote came from, which in most case will be a more legitimate and academic source than using Wikipedia.
Kostakis, V. (2010). ‘Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s peer governance’, First Monday, Vol. 15, No. 3.
Viewed September 21st 2011 Via http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2613/2479
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