How is open source media changing the ways people approach content?

YAHIAOUI Youssef (International Student – France)
November 8th, 2016
First of all we have to know that open source media is created by softwares that allows us to communicate via their platforms and this case, the rights to use it and to change information inside the software.
In France, I was working in an IT company (Turnover : 30 million €) and the softwares that they are selling are based on an open source software (Nagios : Nagios provides enterprise-class Open Source IT monitoring, network monitoring, server and application monitoring). So all their activities are based on an open source media. Without Nagios they couldn’t do anything.
Nowadays, open source media have changed the ways people approach content. Wikipedia is a good example. As stated in the article “Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue” of YOCHAI BENKLER and HELEN NISSENBAUM nowadays you can cooperate effectively to provide information, knowledge or cultural goods without relying on either market pricing or managerial hierarchies to coordinate their common enterprise. This is one of the biggest strenghts of open source media and this lead to the fact that people are more involved and interact each other very easily. But it is also a weakness because everyone can change the information easily and data may be wrong. So like for everything in this life there is a good and bad side, but definitely open source has changed the ways people approach content.