In today's age of New Media a plethora of tools are available to communicate, store, and present information across the wold wide web. Blogs and Wiki pages have been at the forefront of this notion. However, often times there is confusion and overlap between the two and their individual goals and purposes. To be frank a blog is created usually from the perspective of an individual or group and that party presenting it's ideas, thoughts, and news via this platform. On the other hand, a Wiki page is to be utilized to hold information, history, useful links, and general knowledge about a specific subject. Wiki pages and blogs can also be used within organizations to communicate and hold information related to specific processes and functions. It is important to note an important quirk of a wiki page is the fact that often times any individual can come and edit the information, this fact is still true for the most part. However, recently CNN posted an article titled "Wikipedia: No Longer the Wild West?" in which it's mentioned how "it will try assigning editors to some of it's entries". This will limit the amount of information which can be edited and also build a stronger brand for wiki pages in general. Overall, the need for governance and security among blogs and wiki pages has been a concern for years, but there have been a few cases where the lack of authorization and access has actually caused some good. In the New York Times article "Brooklyn Blog Help Leads to Drug Raid" details can be found on how neighbors conversing about the activity within their neighborhoods aided law enforcement in capturing drug dealers and users. The future of these platforms is immense especially in today's era of smartphones, tablets, and smart home devices. Be connected is being knowledgeable.
I believe the future of New Media is bright. Some of the latest advancements in technology have connected people and been one of the most powerful forms of new media such as augmented and virtual reality. I find in the near future and newer method of new media will be the development of virtual advertisements. Aka these are advertisements made from holograms or projected light onto any surface where companies can market themselves at a lower cost and more freely. It may even already exist but due to legal reasons is not used often. However, I feel like having the ability to allow an individual to market as they wish, whenever, and wherever is incredibly important and influential.
Hi Jatinder!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your post. You described the differences and similarities of wikis and blogs beautifully. You mentioned the article posted by CNN where there was talk about wiki possibly assigning editors to some pages...there are people who think that by doing that you are losing the meaning of wiki pages simply because wiki was created as a site with complete freedom to edit anything you wanted to edit. Do you agree with editors being assigned to some wiki pages?