Monday, February 1, 2010

Download - Episode 4 - People Power

Based on "People Power," Episode 4 of the series Download: The True Story of the Internet, answer the following questions:
  1. Who traditionally controls the flow of information and communication?
  2. What is the significance of You Tube's slogan "Broadcast Yourself?"
  3. What is Digg? How is it different than a traditional media source such as a newspaper?
  4. What is the "wisdom of crowds?"
  5. How fast is Facebook growing? Compare this to the trend of print media.
  6. What gave birth to the modern social networking sites?
  7. What "small" problem did Napster have? What mistake did the music industry make? What did it lead to the creation of?

  8. How is the television industry's reaction to You Tube been similar to Napster? How is You Tube different?

  9. What is user created content? How is this a threat to traditional media?

  10. What is Web 2.0?

  11. What is social networking?

  12. Who owns Myspace?

  13. What is the social graph?
  14. What is the significance of Facebook vs. Myspace?

  15. What is Craislist's threat to newspapers?

  16. What are Craiglist's "values?"

2 comments:

  1. 1. The Online Moderators and Admins
    2. Open the world to yourself
    3. A repository of videos, pictures, and news. The newspaper is just paper.
    4. The mob mentality
    5. Superfreaky. Print mediua is going down.
    6.The social scene
    7. Illegal! Taking what was theirs. Youtube can have buisnesses in it.
    8. Somewhat like the copyright deals. Youtube is more free though.
    9. User made, often accused of being copyrighted due to similarities.
    10. The making of such things as Twitter.
    11. See Facebook/Myspace/Twitter
    12. Robert Murdoch
    13.The Social Graph is the representation of our relationships. Today, these graphs define our personal, family, or business communities on social websites
    14.Facebook is used more by college students, Myspace by teens.
    15. Craigslist is an online want ad.
    16. Rather low. You can find prostitutes that are underage. And illegal things that would take too long to explain.

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  2. 1online adminastraters
    2being able to put homemade videos and other random vids on youtube
    3Digg is a place where you can find pics,vids,and news
    4the wisdom of crowads is not just the wisdom of one person but the wisdom of many
    5 facebook is growing insanley fast and newspaper is well getting dead
    6 people wanting to conect with friends and family
    7 illegal copywriting of songs the music indestry suid and dom dom dom dom itunes was created
    8 youtube you can find news and world issues for free tv you have to pay ta da
    9 user created content is like a person taking video of a car accident and putting it on like youtube
    10 things like twitter and imeen
    11 social networking is what places like facebook and myspace are
    12 myspace is owend by Robert murdoch
    13 a social graph is the represantation of our relasionships such as personnal family and buisness
    14 facebook is more adult geard and myspace is teen
    15 craigslist is basiclley anouther ebay to buy things without the action part
    16pretty low you can find all sorts of stuff on craigslist some a little more desturbing then others

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