Posts Tagged ‘crowd’
What is Crowd Sourcing?
Crowd sourcing basically means the knowledge of the crowd. It is a new way of solving problems. It’s a new method that has been brought about by the revolution of the digital technology. Before the rise of the internet, when finding a solution, you were mostly limited to time and space, at least one of those factors. You can, for example, send a letterto any place of the world. But then it takes time to communicate. Or you can call someone, but then you might not be awake at the same time if that person comes from another continent. With the internet, we got rid of that problem because now we can communicate, for example, in a forum without necessarily having to be at the same place and time. That changes the whole methodology on how to generate solutions to a given problem.
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What’s so new about the new media?
The Back Channel
What’s so new about the new media? Well first let’s define what we mean by new media. Usually old media means journals, TVs, radio, books. New media is usually internet related stuff, so that would be blogs, Facebook, linking, just generally all sorts of social media. The real difference between the old and the new media is that you have a back channel from the user to the producer. In fact, there isn’t any division anymore between a producer and a consumer.