Category: Student Work

Private Spaces Are the New Public Spaces.

Over the last decade with the rising popularity and dependency of wireless technology, name your pick, there is no such thing as private spaces or privacy anymore. Personal time is no longer personal; whereas once one was able to appreciate any slow and quiet time, now that same person is more inclined to fill that …

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Wikipedia And Wireless Space

Wireless technology changed how we think of public vs. private spaces and in the reading, you get to see how technology has merged with society. In the first article ”Social Impacts The Telephone And The Cell Phone Has Had On Society”, Victor Epand, you get to read how the internet has changed over time and …

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Crowdsourcing

How is crowdsourcing changing the way that companies approach creating content?   To begin what is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is the method obtaining information or statistics from an enormous group of people typically through social media and other internet outlets. Both big and small companies are being drawn to crowdsourcing more and more for the ability …

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Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing has made such a huge impact for companies. Companies no longer have to shell out all this money to have content for their audience. Instead of paying experts a price they deserve (whether it’s because of their schooling or their equipment), they are now paying amateurs a price that is unbeatable. Because amateurs do …

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Crowd Sourcing

Crowdsourcing involves obtaining work, information, or opinions from a large group of people who submit their data via the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps. Crowdsourcing changes the game of the internet this allows companies to advertise to a large number of people and allows them to collect data which then lets the,m figure out …

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Crowdsourcing

Wired.com says, “…It seems like every day there are new products and services being launched that are leveraging the power of the crowd to do something…”, and I think there’s something to be said about the way crowdsourcing is used in social media through influencer and celebrity culture. Oftentimes the people with the biggest platforms …

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Crowdsourcing

How is crowdsourcing changing the way that companies approach creating content? Crowdsourcing is obtaining information and data from a large crowd, usually from social media or the internet. Companies can crowdsource to see the latest trends and create products to fit those trends and sell.  This is becoming easy and efficient to do, and helps …

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CrowdSourcing

How is crowdsourcing changing the way that companies approach creating content? Firstly What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services if a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the internet. In the article by Jeff Howe, he explains …

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Companies Love Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the attaining of information, media, and laborers from data that has been submitted online through the internet, smartphone applications and social media. This trend is becoming increasingly popular by both large and small companies in an approach to create content. According to Larry Huston, the vice president of knowledge and innovation at a …

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Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting information by volunteering the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the Internet. According to an article on wired.com, It’s been used to come up with new business ideas, solutions to social problems, funding new products, mapping environmental disasters, identifying potholes that need …

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