I appreciated everyone’s comments and examples about the positives and negatives about the production and distribution of non-text media. I’m glad we identified credibility of non-text media as a major issue; it’s something we’ll explore throughout the semester. How do you know if information is credible, trustworthy, reliable, up-to-date, and complete, regardless of its medium? We barely had a chance to discuss cashmusic.org, the open source software development project to help musicians, so take a look if you get a chance. Do you know of other similar projects?
On Wednesday we’ll be discussing Web 2.0 and participatory media. Please read Nicholson Baker, The Charms of Wikipedia and watch two short videos from Common Craft: Social Media in Plain English and Social Networking in Plain English. Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post.
Slides from today are available here.
