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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Sep 22 2020
Crowdsourcing is the now and will always be.
Crowdsourcing has become the norm when it comes to companies seeking ideas- whether it be ads, logos, extensions, even television shows it comes at a cheap cost. Gone are the days where companies had to pay consultants, designers/artists, and ad agencies to push their latest campaigns. Now, with the help of the internet, these ideas …
Sep 22 2020
[Crowdsourcing Dilemma] If you can’t beat them, join them.
The buzz word, crowdsourcing, is a great method of distributing a company’s labor throughout the internet. In a WIRED article by Dustin Haisler, the author explains the concept behind crowdsourcing and the many forms it comes in. Crowdsourcing isn’t just outsourcing company tasks such as formatting some rows and columns in an Excel sheet to …
Sep 22 2020
Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content
How is crowdsourcing changing the way that companies approach creating content? The way crowdsurfing is changing the way companies approach creating content is by communicating with people from various background that can come together for the greater good. We can see this in the article “The Rise of Crowdsurfing” by Gregg Segal where one women …
Sep 21 2020
Crowdsourcing
I’ve been a competitive gamer learning graphic design for several years. As a result, I believe crowdsourcing is a good thing because you can get things done without having a degree to show for it. Crowdsourcing on social media is basically the crowd takes a seat as the both the product and the producer of …
Sep 21 2020
How is Crowdsourcing changing methods of labor on the Internet? by Michael Li
Crowdsourcing has been able to connect people from all parts of the internet and it seems to have been mainly a good thing. Like in the article ‘The Rise of Crowdsourcing’ there are photographers who don’t need to apply for a job, they can simply create for other people. For example, if someone wanted a …
Sep 21 2020
Crowdsourcing
The first article, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing”, is about the first beginnings of examples that created and started the action of Crowdsourcing. It also speaks about the different ways that crowdsourcing was put into work in its earliest uses with minor companies. Crowdsourcing seems to be utilized more prominently these days especially with the advance …
Sep 16 2020
A week without Google or Facebook
I’ve spent the past few years off of Facebook after I canceled my account to escape the anxiety that I felt it was giving me. I only rejoined in the past few weeks because my community board only meets on a Facebook page for this rural Florida town that I own property in. I deliberately …
Sep 16 2020
Search Engine Designs & Info Overload
Yahoo & Bing search engines failed in their respective challenges to Google, so I don’t anticipate my own engine to do any better. When it comes to addressing privacy and the monetization of web-tracking, I would have more interest in using whatever information has been aggregated, to present closer search results for the user. Presenting …
Sep 16 2020
Are the tools of digital media impeding or expanding our knowledge?
I feel as though digital media both impede and expands our knowledge; on a personal level as well as the human collective. Recent world reactions to the George Floyd-BlackLivesMatter movement and the global response to the pandemic are fantastic examples of how social media expands our knowledge collectively. The google opt-out satirical video poked fun …
