Open Source Media is changing the way people approach content by allowing users to contribute information or content. One of the many wonderful things about the Internet is that it can be updated; however, outdated information can stay on the Internet without being notice. For example, a group of boys get arrested for a crime, …
April 7, 2016 archive
Apr 07
Open Source Media
There are open source forms of media and closed source forms of media. Open source has been growing more and more rapidly in the past decade as most forms of media we have discussed in class on Friday mornings. With an open source form of media software, programmers share their codes freely in order to …
Apr 07
Open Source Media
Yochai Benkler’s and Helen Nissenbaum’s “Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue” discussed the vital essence about open sources. “Facilitated by the technical infrastructure of the Internet, the hallmark of this socio-technical system is collaboration among large groups of individuals, sometimes in the order of tens or even hundreds of thousands, who cooperate effectively to provide information, …