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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- https://www.ted.com/talks/james_surowiecki_on_the_turning_point_for_social_media
- Homework: watch the video again or read the transcript, especially 9:33 to the end, to make sure you understand the main positive and negative things the speaker brings up
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- Positive: collective intelligence - a group of people can be smarter than any individual if they are thinking independently
- people did it voluntarily, which probably means more independence and authenticity
- you can get a composite idea of what happened somewhere from many points of view
- (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptzVm0tngc - video of tourist sites from millions of different photographs)
- Negative: the collective network affects your own point of view, so you become less independent
- rumors can spread as easily as true information (“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” - Churchill, or Twain, or Franklin?)
- echochamber = a community of people who keep repeating the same ideas back and forth (“echoing” them) without thinking about it or looking for outside information or confirmation
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- Homework: find (and take notes on) a major event in your country or region in which new media (especially social media) had a very different impact than the traditional media
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