Our world has changed enough in last one decade. I remember old days when books or articles were written by experts in respective fields; peer reviewed by other experts and finally published by publishers. It was an interesting form of elitism. Only the experts have says, only they can communicate to the people and authority was responsible to monitor the entire process and the quality of the work.
Our nice little world came a long way and now everyone has a say and everyone can reach to potentially infinite people. In a way it is democracy in information dissemination. We named it crowd-sourcing. I used to think crowd-sourcing actually deteriorates the quality of information. People who are expert in the field might have better information and so only good quality of information was wide spread because of filtering process. Now anyone can say anything in different media and chances are high that information would spread as well. So as a user I am more vulnerable to crappy information. I hope many people would agree that finding appropriate source for any particular piece of information became very difficult. By appropriate source I mean a source that is peer reviewed and static.
But then I find another way of looking into the matter. Authority used to do the filter for us now we the users have to do our own filtration. Authority somehow decentralized the task to everyone and at the same time we are enjoying the beauty of democracy. I don’t know which approach is good but it is indeed an interesting era for information dissemination. I am just afraid that the later probably increased or task; isn’t it meant to be other way around?
Our nice little world came a long way and now everyone has a say and everyone can reach to potentially infinite people. In a way it is democracy in information dissemination. We named it crowd-sourcing. I used to think crowd-sourcing actually deteriorates the quality of information. People who are expert in the field might have better information and so only good quality of information was wide spread because of filtering process. Now anyone can say anything in different media and chances are high that information would spread as well. So as a user I am more vulnerable to crappy information. I hope many people would agree that finding appropriate source for any particular piece of information became very difficult. By appropriate source I mean a source that is peer reviewed and static.
But then I find another way of looking into the matter. Authority used to do the filter for us now we the users have to do our own filtration. Authority somehow decentralized the task to everyone and at the same time we are enjoying the beauty of democracy. I don’t know which approach is good but it is indeed an interesting era for information dissemination. I am just afraid that the later probably increased or task; isn’t it meant to be other way around?
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