Web 2.0 Issues

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Permalink Reply by Ben Parker on April 24, 2015 at 8:16am

While I understand your point of view and this is a definite issue, I do not believe that the actual plagiarism and self promotion are not anything new. They are just coming more to the forefront as there is a shift from it being a few people using the internet, its connecting networking systems, and knowledge resource to instead include the majority, especially the younger generation. Despite this not being a new issue, the anonymity available online can promote blatant disregard for any accountability, freeing people to say and do things that they otherwise might never say to a live audience.

There does need to be more of a push for digital citizenship being taught to students in schools from elementary on up, especially since each of us does leave a digital footprint that doesn't just get erased as you age. Plagiarism and cheating have always been a problem within the school system, but they are becoming more tech dependent. This always takes a lot of effort to combat.

I am not for the government being brought in to police everything, since that generally doesn't do as good of a job as people self-policing their own digital communities. When all of the policing is left to companies, without input from the users, it is much less effective.

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Permalink Reply by Jayashree Iyer on October 17, 2016 at 12:34am

Users have to be careful about the information they hand outand start demand­ing that sites take care of their inform­a­tion. If I want to hand out inform­a­tion to the world, that’s my decision, but it shouldn’t be up to some web site to make that decision for me.

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