Sunday, February 14, 2016

Week #4 - R3 Media Response


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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