The topic for this week is crowdsourcing. I believe using crowdsourcing as
a method to create or fund a project is really smart. The idea of unifying a
variety of voices and perspectives on one topic or to meet one common goal is
extremely interesting and I believe that it enhances the projects’ potential. Crowdsourcing
acknowledges the fact that there will always be someone out there who thinks of
something you didn’t and uses it as an advantage. By having that wide range of
input, the project itself becomes more meaningful and has a higher chance of
reaching more people, which in turn means having a bigger impact. In the video
we watched for this week, we learned about Wikipedia and how it functions. It
is interesting to think that there has always been a stigma regarding the lack
of credibility of Wikipedia articles, especially among professors, to the point
where the site is not acknowledged as a usable source for academic papers.
Despite this negative belief, I find that most people, myself included, use
Wikipedia for quick information on many topics. I particularly enjoyed the
article about Cloud Filmmaking, I was highly impressed with the company and how
the company’s crowdsourcing approach is also a big factor of their outreach
goals. In the article it mentioned how our species learns and empathizes
through storytelling, which I believe is completely true. We always share
things about our lives through social media, especially now that we have the
technology that we do, and it is fascinating how Cloud Filmmaking is using that
aspect of our modern society to connect people from all over the world.
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