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.