Digital text is amazing, unbelievable and out of control!
Now that form has been separated from content any user can export any content
without having to know very much about the technology behind it. Not only text, as
in blogs, twitter, FB, etc., but images too, for example YouTube. In his video
Michael Wesch states that this data will be organized by us, we humans who are teaching
the machine with every click. The Web is now truly linking people and allowing
them to collaborate in unimaginable ways in every possible field. The very
interesting statement made by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural
Anthropology at Kansas State University with this video almost makes the very
first requirement for this class obsolete. We had to fulfill our pledge about
not committing plagiarism and we all did in order to be able to move forward
and participate in this class. How call this be avoided in the future if the
basis of our communication, our distribution of information and knowledge is so
out of control? Who will know who saw it, said it, posted it or published it
first???? As Mr. Wesch professes, “we’ll need to rethink a few things. . . copyright,
. . . authorship, . . . identity, . . . ethics, . . . governance, . . . privacy,
. . . ourselves". Just something to think about?
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