Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Google said what?

Information access and dissemination on the internet is a relatively new concept for people, seeing that its only in its fifteenth year of life, we have quite a long future exploiting yet another machine to make our lives that we live, whether real or in a digital scene, easier and more productive (although you could argue the latter).  Its quite common for a typical internet user to search for say, a new video game, and wind up with results for new videos, or a video of me playing my favorite games to a number of unrelated topics. The question of quality of internet sources and general information is not a new one and some of the bigger companies like Britannica online encyclopedia represent a transition of old school to new technology while new companies like Wikipedia represent a free market balance way of information quality control. According to Born Digital the way it works is it is reliant upon the other users of the information or maybe a team of reviewers to spot and eliminate or verify information that may be incorrect.  So, if everyone with different thoughts and ideas just started deciding what is right and what is wrong and what the fact really are, it begs the question who decides what is right and what is wrong, relevant to information. after reading the chapter of born digital i felt like the ambiguity of the internet is the perfect place for this problem to persist and i look forward to seeing how the people of the world deal with this problem. 

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