Television is swiftly moving into a direction of complete user autonomy. Up until recent years, television was classified as one platform with an array of channels, and there was little choice the viewers had other than what channel they chose to watch. The characteristics of television have transformed greatly, and there is no longer one …
March 2018 archive
Mar 07 2018
Discussion Board Post: Reality and Digital Television
Digital television has proved to be one of the best things created since sliced bread. Before digital television, we had an analog television, which was based on a broadcast to audience format which had certain limitations to its audience. We were only able to watch channels/shows at designated times. Over the past twenty years’ digital …
Mar 03 2018
Class activity After presentation Post
1. What was your activity? Please be specific on what you asked the class to do and what you hoped it would accomplish. Basically my class activity was for the class to be split up into two groups. Both groups had to answer 4 questions, but one group would work individually while the other group …
Mar 01 2018
Crowd sourcing
Crowdsourcing is the use of people or a person for certain services whether they get paid or unpaid according to the definition from the dictionary. It seems like nowadays people are doing crowdsourcing. They don’t really care if they get paid or not as long as they are helping someone. You have the professional crowdsourcers …
Mar 01 2018
Crowdsourcing 3/1
Crowdsourcing, from my understanding (and a Google search), is the practice of getting information into a task or project by using the services of multiple people. Companies that have grown alongside the age of the Internet are pretty much designed to take advantage of this networked world. The labor that these companies do isn’t free …
Mar 01 2018
Crowdsourcing
Prior to reading this articles I had no idea what crowdsourcing meant. Crowdsourcing is “the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid.” I definitely do think that crowdsourcing is changing the way that companies go about approaching …
Mar 01 2018
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing can increase creativity and productivity while decreasing research expenses. In one of the articles it explains that istockphoto s a website where photographers would trade stock photography which was way cheaper than buying the stock photos from someone. Crowdsourcing can offer different ideas and work from many different people like istockphoto its collections from …
Mar 01 2018
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing can be a plus and minus to individuals. Well on the positive side, crowdsourcing can get content on their sites from this. Little to no cost people will express there thoughts, opinions and answers to what ever they have a chance to speak on. Shows like “who wants to be a millionaire” or any …
Mar 01 2018
weekly post #5
After reading the articles and hearing some examples, it better helped me understand the idea of crowd sourcing. In a way it is a very smart and easy way to get content for your websites without having to follow any strict rules or copyrighting rules. For example, one show that i enjoy a lot, that …