Due Tues. a blog posting giving your analysis of "catfish" how does it fit in to our larger discussions of democratized media and web 2.0?
In class we've discussed how web 2.0 is a socialized form of web 1.0. The static consistency of web 1.0 is a very clear depiction of news and information one is supposed to see by professional reporters. Web 2.0 is more user generated information which we have discussed has much controversy over its legitimacy and credibility. Catfish is a perfect example of web 2.0 generated information that lacks credibility and borderline is illegal due to identity privacy.
In Catfish a woman portrays at least 15 other people on Facebook, a social media site, and pretends that they are real and posting comments that are supposed to come from their mouths. This woman is lying and posing as other people, even stealing pictures of people she knows and pretending that they are someone else. She uses people's identity and hides behind them to escape her life and problems.
In regards to democratized media, this amateur poser is creating a hole in the faith of what is social media and user generated content. She is exactly the kind of people Keen talks about when he says that quality is going down in the web because of situations where things like this can occur.
Catfish was a creepy portrayal of a serious problem that is going on in the world today. Even social dating sites like Eharmony are having problems with background checks and sexual offenders posing to be other people. Now too many incidents have been reported that people are either lying or exaggerating themselves on the internet to lead people to meet them in person. This sort of media i believe is the scariest kind. Keen talks in his work that we can't trust everything written on the internet, but so often we forget that and i myself am even guilty of this. This is a perfect reminder that web 2.0 is not professional for the majority. We have to be careful when deciding what to not believe and what to fact check by credible sources.
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Keen Reading Questions
1. How does Keen define Democratized media, and what are his main issues with this trend? use examples from the web in the form of links. Include this idea of "disintermediation".
Keen defines Democratized media by saying it is lofty idealized, undermines truth, and belittles expertise, experience, and talent. Keen thinks that democratized media is an empty promise and I think he means that it?s almost ironic that the phrase democratized media even exists. ?For the real consequence of the Web 2.0 revolution is less culture, less reliable news, and a chaos of useless information? Keen 16. Keen believes there is little truth to the world of democratized media.
For example, Keen uses the deaths of Ken Lay and Anna Nicole Smith?s Wikipedia pages and how their deaths were described incorrectly within minutes. Lay?s said his death was a suicide then a heart attack. Smith?s said hers was for unknown reasons, drugs, heart problems, and so on. This is how misinformation is spread.
2. Compare and Contrast Keens take on Social Media with Douglas Rushkoff's. What are these differences in opinion? Which one speaks to you and your own experiences and why? You may include the ideas of such utopian technophiles as Larry Lessig, Chris anderson, and Jimmy Wales (who are these guys!?)
Keen believes as I stated in the previous answer that the media is a way to spread lies in a super fast way. Rushkoff believes that social media hinders our abilities to grow on a large global or national scale but can bring towns and smaller communities closer because of information that is spread. Within these small towns people can get windows into other people lives that they may or may not know in reality. I understand both of their views, and I actually really agree with both of them. I believe that social media is a way to spread information very fast but I do believe that there is a lot of misinformation being spread as well. Also in my own experience, people that I am Facebook friends with in my town, I feel that I know better or what?s going on in their lives. I see what colleges people are going to, if they get new pets, I can see pictures they post of new shoes they get, or whatever it may be, but I do see a town getting a better look into each other?s windows, essentially making us all neighbors.
Keen defines Democratized media by saying it is lofty idealized, undermines truth, and belittles expertise, experience, and talent. Keen thinks that democratized media is an empty promise and I think he means that it?s almost ironic that the phrase democratized media even exists. ?For the real consequence of the Web 2.0 revolution is less culture, less reliable news, and a chaos of useless information? Keen 16. Keen believes there is little truth to the world of democratized media.
For example, Keen uses the deaths of Ken Lay and Anna Nicole Smith?s Wikipedia pages and how their deaths were described incorrectly within minutes. Lay?s said his death was a suicide then a heart attack. Smith?s said hers was for unknown reasons, drugs, heart problems, and so on. This is how misinformation is spread.
2. Compare and Contrast Keens take on Social Media with Douglas Rushkoff's. What are these differences in opinion? Which one speaks to you and your own experiences and why? You may include the ideas of such utopian technophiles as Larry Lessig, Chris anderson, and Jimmy Wales (who are these guys!?)
Keen believes as I stated in the previous answer that the media is a way to spread lies in a super fast way. Rushkoff believes that social media hinders our abilities to grow on a large global or national scale but can bring towns and smaller communities closer because of information that is spread. Within these small towns people can get windows into other people lives that they may or may not know in reality. I understand both of their views, and I actually really agree with both of them. I believe that social media is a way to spread information very fast but I do believe that there is a lot of misinformation being spread as well. Also in my own experience, people that I am Facebook friends with in my town, I feel that I know better or what?s going on in their lives. I see what colleges people are going to, if they get new pets, I can see pictures they post of new shoes they get, or whatever it may be, but I do see a town getting a better look into each other?s windows, essentially making us all neighbors.
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