W9 Blog Topic : Discuss Reagles's chapter 3-4

Wikipedia is known for the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and people think it's an open community which could be characterized by Open Transparency, Integrity, Nondiscrimination, Noninterference. However, there are people our there thinking Wikipedia is more like open culture than on open community. For me, Openness of 'open culture' itself includes more than above four of them. 

Open can be defined 
1. not restricted to a particular group or category of participants
2. characterized by ready accessibility and usually generous attitude

I think that open of an open community means closer to the first definition, because it sounds like an actually open physical place anyone can come and do thing whatever they want to do. But open of an open culture what I think of Wikipedia is close to the second definition. In Wikipedia, there is a collaborative culture that asks its participants to assume two postures: a stance of neutral point of view on matters of knowledge, and a stance of good faith toward one’s fellow contributors. I think that's what we should have to have open culture in our Wikipedia world. 

Having Wikipedia already open to people, it is our responsibility to reach the second definition of open culture and keep it ideally. We should be not only neutral, but also patient, civil, and be humorous. 

W7

W7 Why Free Culture matters?

 Everybody have freedom for sharing information and creating knowledge in information society. no matter how online make large society than offline society. free culture can talk and express frankly oneself thinking. because offline society don't telling many information online society make large society. If freedom was controlled now free culture in information society don't be made. Free culture make new culture and changes society. The culture in this day and age is world culture, not each nation.

 I think control need on the activity but free culture need in everything for large activity. a value is made in freedom and the value make new society. therefor Free Culture is important in information society. 

[week6]

It is little bit hard to define cultural globalization since there are lots to consider such as economical, religious,etc. According to Wikipedia, Globalization (or globalisation) is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.  Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.As we can see in this definition, culture is already related to globalization. 

I don't agree with Clifford Geertz which he was saying 'Culture is not a power, something to which social events can be casually attributed' if I understood it correctly. I think by causally attributed, it can be a power. For example, 

Jewish people has the power of enrolling in America's economy in variety of fields. Their thoughts, religion and other fields in capital things they earend from thoughts made a big power in America. We can say Jewish people has a big part of America's economical(?) system which is 'Power' in this time.

It was an interesting view that increasing global connectivity can be called the Third World. And some people understand globalization as a certain kind of culture's boundary. such as Americanism, westertnization. It is not quiet correct way to view connection between globalization and culture. than what else could be? I'm little bit confused about what I said above the article about Jewish people. I think it's a kind of cultural globallzation because many Jewish people are acting in variety of fields I think they are helping cultural globalization. did I understand it right?

[week7] Free culture? Free culture!

Until today, people understand about free culture that has copyright. It doesn't mean that no one can use it. Many people thinks it is free that the contents that they can easily find. And using free such as downloading musics, movies is illegal. Yes, it is illegal and somebody must have the copyrights for the contents. However, in other view, contents have made other meaning in today's society. Since technological things has been developed, the people who only knew how to accept and review the contents, they now know how to make, share and combine the contents. For example people like to videotape their short movies and upload in Youtube. It can be used as an advertisement. Furthermore, for instance Naver and Daum such portal sites upload their internet newspaper on line. The people who use the application or the websites may be influnced by the portal cites even though they did not want to be. No defeces if the people do not see the mass-media. For these reasons, people may loose their judgement which is true or false. They may have a big problem and in trouble.

[Week 7] : Why Free Culture matters?

 Free culutre is one of the most impact factor of information oriented age. As the technology is developed, there is no difference between the genuine and the copied. Jean Baudrillard who is french phiolosher maed the specific terms that what we called “Simulation”. This idea can be qualified with not only information but also art, music, movie, etc.  

 While we live in 21st century, we are on duplication society unavoidable. In that society, it seemed silly when we insist our right of something especially information or knowledge. For instance, Peter Higgs  who won a nobel prize of physics recently having been criticized beacuase although his idea was hint of development for physics,however, during last few decades thousands of other physicians have reseached that matter. But without any consider about that people’s reference, how higgs got the nobel prize.

 Likewise there is no host for information in thesedays. That is, Free culture is compulsory and inevitable concept in these year. Surely, copyright of specific information or any knowledge must be complied yet, mass information or free information have to be guranteed also.  

Week 7 assignment

Week 7 Topic. Why Free Culture matters?

sehyun oh

     Today's society is changing at a fast pace, technology is also developing in our society. So there are lots of free items such as music, news, book. We can share and use these free items whenever and wherever we want. Wikipedia is one of free contents in our society. This free culture is useful for many people but I think there are many problem about free culture. As we can get free contents easily, we can share to other people even though this content has a copyright. It is kind of infringement of copyright but many people don't recognize that this is illegal. In my case, I also enjoy using free contents such as music, book and news. Some contents has copyright, but I don't know which one has copyright or not because many people share it on the internet. This can be in legal trouble because some people earn money through copyright on the internet.

With technology getting better, many people can get free contents easily and the boundaries between free contents and copyright contents are collapsing. If this circumstance continue, this matter will create many problems in our society.

W7 Blog Topic : Why Free Culture Matters?

I was a bit surprised this morning when I found that  I was able to real actual newspaper through my mobile phone by chance. This is the world that we are living in now. We can get free music, free movies, free newspaper(not only internet news), free lectures, free books, and so on. It even seems to be an extra work to argue if we can get those free stuff.
I don't necessarily think Wikipedia is one of the main factor to make this free culture happen, but it is certainly one of the important thing we should look at when we think of free culture that we are facing.
People enjoy free culture of Wikipedia getting and editing information that they want. We already discussed that this doesn't come from any physical rewards. Before our technology has as developed as we know it today, there are still information our there, but somehow there are specific people who control the information. However, as technology has developed, it's not someone's possessions anymore. We all can make, edit and share. I think that's the biggest change which made free culture.
With understanding 'remix', the time is getting closer and closer when everything is from everything which means there wouldn't be anything new. When that time arrives, what's the point of owing and having them priced which will never be bought?

W6

How important is it to be civil online on the Internet?

 I am playing project about internet reply culture (malicious messages) in other class. we look many uncivil online in internet. this activities are mixed in various reasons. various reasons are simply fun, ideology, education, culture, nation and etc. and many people have the Yes points because of anonymity and freedom of speech.

 I think this importance is different in internet community' characteristic. SNS adding wikipedia is importance. wikipedia is place made many people. Collective Intelligence may have big effect in civil online. 

Week 6 assignment

Week 6- How important is it to be civil online on the internet?

sehyun oh

I heard about some issues about netizen's bad social behavior on the internet. Because of anonymity, many Netizens sometimes slander to other people on the internet. I saw that few people who were hurt by bad comment attempt suicide but some people who wrote about bad comments don't feel guilty about writing bad comments. I think it is important to be civil online on the internet. Internet is another society so I think it has to have stricter laws on the internet. Many people use the internet and sometimes they write some posts or comments on the internet even if it offend someone's mind. As I told you above, he or she who is hurt by hateful comments thinks of suicide or something bad thinking. And also internet is that people collaborate some working and discuss about issues not dispraise other people so we have to be good civil online on the internet.  

[Week6] How important is it to be civil online on the Internet?

How important is it to be civil online on the Internet?

 As we know, there are lot of rules and regulation for maintain our soicety. If each society even small community do not have any specific law, they are faced with mess up. Accodring to rule each persons act civil and polite becuase if they are not, there are only fight, quarrel.

 Likewise, we have to be civil on the on-line society. Within the framework of collective intelliegence, all users have to participate for gathering information, for debating about that information for even better results. But as we know well, if there are variety of people coming, there must be a quarrel with members. So managing that fight is one ot the most important work. It seems that way of managing are variety. Onething is “Be civil”

 By being civil we can get advantage when we using wikipeida especially such as has a neutral point of view. In this reason, wikipedia aquire its own value that anyone can edit and anyone can get information. Be civil does not only meaning of be polite, but also respect to other users. And there is one more important point is be civil or be polite is not an utmost attitute but the basic facotr.

W6 Blog Topic : How important is it to be civil online on the internet?

I looked up a dictionary to start this writing to know what exactly 'civil' is. Meriam-Webster learner's dictionary defines civil as 'It is polite but not friendly : only as polite as a person needs to be in order to not be rude'. So, let's begin with a question. Do we have to be civil on the internet, if so, how important it is? 

There was certain time when netizens's social behavior on the internet were issued. Because some of them attacked others with unproved information or for no reason. Especially in Korea, to be honest, our mind-set is not as developed as our technology and that has been a social problem. It's important to be polite in the real world but it's even more important to be polite, be civil on the internet, because it is an anonymous world. You can't see people face to face who you are taking with. So there is more possibility for what you type to be misunderstood. That's why you need to be extra careful. It's very easy to type whatever you think although it might look rude, and I understand it has more temptation to do so. However, it is the another world, and you live with them. What you type affect your world and you are also affected by that. You don't have to be extra friendly to be civil, but you need to be polite to others just as what you treated by others and that's same everywhere. 

Week5 Two faces of Wikipedia

Some people thinks wikipedia is not trustful. Wikipedia is not trustful because 'anyone' can edit. Since anyone who know how to use computer and internet, when people who put their personal feelings or biased opinions in article, its realibility is low. For example an article about Windows 8's editing page has been blocked temporaly because of people who against windows8's program review(rude?).

This is the news about windows8 in wikipeida.

http://www.zdnet.co.kr/news/news_view.asp?artice_id=20130503212021

and article about wikipedia that is not trustful.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/so-is-wikipedia-cracking-up-1543527.html

On the other hand, when people see the biased articles, the wikis are trying to fix them correctly. This is Wikipedia's strong point. The point that can fix right away when they found something wrong.

As a result, wikipedia is between trustful zone and untrustful zone which depends on people who write article about.

week5

Can we trust Wikipedia?

I think wikipedia has fast information and accuracy than some media. At first, I thought wikipedia has low accuracy because of a variety of prejudice. But wikipedia has trust through reliable reference. and it is having a fast flow speed of information because wikipedia is space made by many people (Collective Intelligence) If article were made by incorrect information many people would edit the article. But There is a danger. incorrect information is spread by large-scale population of realistic-looking. I wonder this point whether they can do anything for this point. 

[Week5] English Reading in Information Sociology – Understanding Wikipedia

Blog topic :  Can we trust Wikipedia?

 As we know there are variety realem and tons of information on wikipedia now. We cannot imagine how many users using wikipedia. Furthermore, we cannot figure out how they are thinking about evverything. In this reasons, wikipedia is always expose to danger of inaccuracy.

 However, from variety of using wikipedia, we can get what we called ‘collectiv intelligence’ Far more to become accuracy sum of informaiton or quantity of informaion is compulsory needed. That is concept of Big Data. It heared like contradictionary, yet the more information gathered, the clearer direction nature are deducted beacause when lots of information gathered, there must be remained variety of discussion angles. In fact this is core point of dialectic, thesis-antithesis-synthesis. By doing so each information improved automaticly. Finally we can get pure, accurate, high quality information.

 According to our class, we can regard wikipedia as a result of collective intelligence. we already discuss about power point of collectiv intelligence, there is no doubt to trust to wikipedia any more.

Week 5 assignment - sehyun oh

Week 5. Can we trust Wikipedia?

At first, when I learned about Wikipedia, I was curious that it could be run by editors on Wikipedia. But after I tried to use and edit Wikipedia, I became rely on information in Wikipedia. Because someone who saw my mistake wrote on my talk page and taught what I was wrong. I thought it was very a great help to my editing because I didn't know what part of my editing was wrong and my grammar skill wasn't good among Wikipedia editors. Before I saw someone's advice on my talk page, I doubted that there were experts on Wikipedia because everyone could edit an article in there. But after that, my thinking was changed that there were lots of editors who were professional editors. Also when someone edit or make an article, it must have references such as books, news and so on. It made me more reliable. So I think we can trust Wikipedia.