answers to questions

Kate Conard and Madeline Haurin

#1: We think Amateurish user-generated content will get better over time because we have higher expectations such as HD t.v.s and blue ray. We expect our quality of production to get better so the amateur user-generated content would have to get better to meet our expectations. Examples would be the t.v. show, The Office, or different MTV shows such as The Real World, My Life as Liz, etc. There is so much more Professional production than amateur production out there so it is obviously more valued by users.

#2: We went to delicious.com and picked the article, "4 ways to trim your spending". The words we would use to tag this article would be: budget, spending, expensive, savings, finances. The website used: finance, money, budget, expenses, and spending. So we had a pretty similar idea of how we would tag the article. Tagging takes the main concepts from the article so it can be searched more easily and filed in an organized manor.

#3: Transparency is a measure of integrity and honesty in social media. The more transparent the media is, the more credible it is. It is giving us more reliable information that we can trust. People can lie on the internet or choose to disclose some information so you're not getting the full truth. So you need to be careful with what sources you are trusting as different types of media have different motives. An example could be Wikipedia - some articles are professionally viewed while others are created by amateurs. Anyone can change the articles on Wikipedia so that could be a problem and make the website less transparent. We think transparency is more important for the online world than the offline world because you can experience everything for yourself in the real world. So if you trust what someone says in the real world, you can really figure it out yourself eventually. Whereas we are so trusting on the internet that it can be dangerous. We trust these websites for information that could be false and we won't always get to find out the true answer.