Quiz and Interesting readings - Week 11

This week we had our midterm. The midterm was worth 20% of our grade for this module. Thankfully after studying over the notes, looking over past wikis and doing the readings, I managed to obtain 21/23. I was very happy with my results and I felt I had learned a lot  over the past 11 weeks for this module.

There are some readings that stood out to me when I was preparing for this exam. The first was the truth in the age of social media; A social Computing and Big Data Challenge.http://irevolution.net/2012/07/26/truth-and-social-media/. This article was interesting to me as the main topic throughout the article was about the development of social computing and the challenges that we face due to this development, From doing research on various topics adapting to change and development is one of the biggest challenges any individual or organisation can face. This article looks into to different areas of the industry such as journalism, photography and news. For journalism the challenges they face are all about how easy it easy now a days for anyone to check information or facts up online, it has never been so easy for the public to check up on anything that a journalist is saying. They must now be careful and use solid information to back up their article. Then photography it is now so easy to create a false image or to modify an image. The photograph now must ensure that their images are authentic and not a false image. Then the final topic discussed was the news and how easy it is to spread rumours. Everything is spread so quickly through social media .
It was an interesting article they must come into our minds when we read or see the things online we must consider is this a credible source or an authentic photo.

Then the following reading was called the pros and cons of internal user-generated content /http://www.contentrules.com/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-internal-user-generated-content/. This was about how now that social media is so easy accessible for so many people, we don't need experts anymore for example with companies we do not need to hire a technical person or a web designer most of the time now companies just create groups wikis and people from various areas in work just write a piece on it 

There are pros and cons to this user generated information.

PROS	CONS
The content is by people who are actually doing the work, more accuracy.	Person may not know how to write exactly what the customers want to see even though they create the product.
Collaborative Environment everyone is getting involved, can lead to good work morale as people show interest.	Difficult to maintain a good communicated flow on the page, due to different writers.
Updated very quickly	Creators may leave out information, because they know it they assume others do to.
	Can be disorganized and hard to follow.