Clay Shirky - End Of Audience
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1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson?
It is available to development like email, the web, Spotify and Snapchat.
We don't need to consider how the web attempts to utilize it.
It's imperative for the right to speak freely, opportunity of the press and opportunity of get together to many millions.
Great hotspot for data and training, crusading and political activity.
It makes it near impossible to stop spam and abuse.
It can be used for surveillance, control and oppression if people can intrude on what you send.
Extremists and radicals can use it to influence people to join their cause. Fraud and scams, ripoffs and malicious software are available everywhere.
3) What does ‘open technology’ refer to? Do you agree with the idea of ‘open technology’?
3) Why did Trent Lott’s speech in 2002 become news?
Weblogs kept the story alive and when Lott released an apology, mainstream outlets started covering the story that wouldn't have done otherwise.
4) What is ‘mass amateurisation’?
Non-professionals are able to create and distribute content that would have otherwise been done by professionals.
5) Shirky suggests that: “The same idea, published in dozens or hundreds of places, can have an amplifying effect that outweighs the verdict from the smaller number of professional outlets.” How can this be linked to the current media landscape and particularly ‘fake news’?
Many online publishers can share and write about a story from an entirely different angle or publish news that is misleading in nature. Because it can be picked up immediately by thousands online, newspapers struggle to write about these stories factually as people have already read information on this topic online. Their publications are no longer the place to get immediate news.
6) What does Shirky suggest about the social effects of technological change? Does this mean we are currently in the midst of the internet “revolution” or “chaos” Shirky mentions?
7) Shirky says that “anyone can be a publisher… [and] anyone can be a journalist”. What does this mean and why is it important?
The web has enabled anybody to distribute data and pronounce themselves a writer. The writer benefit of not uncovering sources was fixing to customary types of media before the web and to frighten measure of individuals who were conventional experts. Be that as it may, now the importance of a writer should be changed as a few bloggers used to work for conventional outlets and still have sources. It's essential to perceive who can have the privileges of journalistic benefit, while still not distancing the individuals who have a crowd of people on the web.
8) What does Shirky suggest regarding the hundred years following the printing press revolution? Is there any evidence of this “intellectual and political chaos” in recent global events following the internet revolution?
The world was in a period of intellectual and political chaos and broke more things than it fixed. Right now 'fake news' had dominated the internet and the misinformation of readers has led to a change of opinions on news stories that would have been different if it were covered by newspapers.
9) Why is photography a good example of ‘mass amateurisation’?
Digital cameras and phones have changed the industry with anyone being able to produce content and publish it anywhere, threatening professionals.
10) What do you think of Shirky’s ideas on the ‘End of audience’? Is this era of ‘mass amateurisation’ a positive thing? Or are we in a period of “intellectual and political chaos” where things are more broken than fixed?
3) What does ‘open technology’ refer to? Do you agree with the idea of ‘open technology’?
Empowering a differing on the web culture that enables all voices to be heard on the off chance that we have faith in an open society, measure up to circumstance and free articulation, which must be based on advances that are themselves open. I imagine that impressive standards on what can be posted on the web, in the event that it isn't now illicit by law shouldn't occur. Access to all data ought to be permitted on the off chance that it isn't as of now restricted by the law e.g. access to individual email shouldn't be took into consideration anybody to hack since it isn't intended for open utilization and it doesn't consider their property.
4) Bill Thompson outlines some of the challenges and questions for the future of the internet. What are they?
How can the network deliver privacy?
4) Bill Thompson outlines some of the challenges and questions for the future of the internet. What are they?
How can the network deliver privacy?
How can news media operate online and still make money?
5) Where do you stand on the use and regulation of the internet? Should there be more control or more openness? Why?
I think there shouldn't be regulation that enforces what information is allowed online. It should be fully open as it was intended to be, access to information is free from regulation and restrictions. But things that are already considered illegal, shouldn't be allowed on the internet e.g. personal documents.
Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody charts the way social media and connectivity is changing the world. Read Chapter 3 of his book, ‘Everyone is a media outlet
1) How does Shirky define a ‘profession’ and why does it apply to the traditional newspaper industry?
Exists to take care of a difficult issue, one that requires a type of specialization. The conventional way daily papers worked were that columnists would explore a news point and editors would experience it and choose where it would go in the request of the paper. Presently anybody can be a 'proficient', they can explore something on the web and post it - or they can simply post data that misinforms perusers. The immersion of the online news scene has prompted less examination as there is such a great amount to pay special mind to.
2) What is the question facing the newspaper industry now the internet has created a “new ecosystem”?
What happens when the costs of reproduction and distribution go away? What happens when there's nothing unique about publishing any-more, because users can do it for themselves?"
5) Where do you stand on the use and regulation of the internet? Should there be more control or more openness? Why?
I think there shouldn't be regulation that enforces what information is allowed online. It should be fully open as it was intended to be, access to information is free from regulation and restrictions. But things that are already considered illegal, shouldn't be allowed on the internet e.g. personal documents.
Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody charts the way social media and connectivity is changing the world. Read Chapter 3 of his book, ‘Everyone is a media outlet
1) How does Shirky define a ‘profession’ and why does it apply to the traditional newspaper industry?
Exists to take care of a difficult issue, one that requires a type of specialization. The conventional way daily papers worked were that columnists would explore a news point and editors would experience it and choose where it would go in the request of the paper. Presently anybody can be a 'proficient', they can explore something on the web and post it - or they can simply post data that misinforms perusers. The immersion of the online news scene has prompted less examination as there is such a great amount to pay special mind to.
2) What is the question facing the newspaper industry now the internet has created a “new ecosystem”?
What happens when the costs of reproduction and distribution go away? What happens when there's nothing unique about publishing any-more, because users can do it for themselves?"
3) Why did Trent Lott’s speech in 2002 become news?
Weblogs kept the story alive and when Lott released an apology, mainstream outlets started covering the story that wouldn't have done otherwise.
4) What is ‘mass amateurisation’?
Non-professionals are able to create and distribute content that would have otherwise been done by professionals.
5) Shirky suggests that: “The same idea, published in dozens or hundreds of places, can have an amplifying effect that outweighs the verdict from the smaller number of professional outlets.” How can this be linked to the current media landscape and particularly ‘fake news’?
Many online publishers can share and write about a story from an entirely different angle or publish news that is misleading in nature. Because it can be picked up immediately by thousands online, newspapers struggle to write about these stories factually as people have already read information on this topic online. Their publications are no longer the place to get immediate news.
6) What does Shirky suggest about the social effects of technological change? Does this mean we are currently in the midst of the internet “revolution” or “chaos” Shirky mentions?
Social effects lag behind technological changes, there is long period of chaos then they reach the new change. It means we are in a chaos.
7) Shirky says that “anyone can be a publisher… [and] anyone can be a journalist”. What does this mean and why is it important?
The web has enabled anybody to distribute data and pronounce themselves a writer. The writer benefit of not uncovering sources was fixing to customary types of media before the web and to frighten measure of individuals who were conventional experts. Be that as it may, now the importance of a writer should be changed as a few bloggers used to work for conventional outlets and still have sources. It's essential to perceive who can have the privileges of journalistic benefit, while still not distancing the individuals who have a crowd of people on the web.
8) What does Shirky suggest regarding the hundred years following the printing press revolution? Is there any evidence of this “intellectual and political chaos” in recent global events following the internet revolution?
The world was in a period of intellectual and political chaos and broke more things than it fixed. Right now 'fake news' had dominated the internet and the misinformation of readers has led to a change of opinions on news stories that would have been different if it were covered by newspapers.
9) Why is photography a good example of ‘mass amateurisation’?
Digital cameras and phones have changed the industry with anyone being able to produce content and publish it anywhere, threatening professionals.
10) What do you think of Shirky’s ideas on the ‘End of audience’? Is this era of ‘mass amateurisation’ a positive thing? Or are we in a period of “intellectual and political chaos” where things are more broken than fixed?
I think it must be even more a positive thing. The online age has prompted an upset of ventures that has enabled us to get to data and have given us more opportunities to distribute and make things on the web. There is some turmoil and focal points being taken, however it will set aside opportunity to change in accordance with this new atmosphere of data.
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