How is Open Source Media Changing the Ways People Approach Content?

Open source media is changing the ways people approach content in a way that people are more involved in the content being put up on digital network. Websites such as Wikipedia, Slashdot and Kuro5hin run on peoples contribution, defininitions, links to other websites etc. It’s “human-edited directory of the web.”  The information being put in can be vey useful, to very useless. Some argue that open source is not resourceful, as people can input any information they please. But this can be a new way of collecting information, keeping everyone more involve and interact, more social. With so many people in the world, imagine all the minds that can bring information into one source? Disagreements happen, but that’s why these sites have ways of dealing with confrontation, and the same if people input bad information. Open source can make getting information much simpliar.

Open source is beneficial in a way that it’s more personalized, to be the way you want it. Open source can be a type of software, but once you’re done, it has to release a code, that gets restarted. Example, Microsoft products, you cant change the look and layout of this program without doing it illegally.

I do agree that it is a little skeptical, who really knows what information is true? Can this be used against us? People seem to believe anything, and make enough people believe it, it becomes true… even when it’s not.