Digital Ethnography has another thought provoking video post called Information R/evolution
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
The ways in which we access information has been dramatically adjusted with the advent of the world wide web, but the glue that binds it and the fuel that maintains it is you, me and everyone else that chooses to interact, react and basically be involved with information online.
It is easily visible that the way of the web is not just commercial in nature, it is becoming everything that we want/need it to be:
- information
- interaction
- entertainment
- shopping
- religion
- voice
- purpose
The Internet has become the platform for those without a voice throughout the world! That is why in some societies they are attempting to control this access to a free flow of ideas and information. This is what leads to choice, misinformation and all. When you have a voice, you have power, hence the reason political parties and candidates in the United States are flocking to ensure they have a voice in the social circles online.
I would like to encourage you to view the video and feel free to share your thoughts and opinions here!
I still wish they had a class like this one when I was in college!
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