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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Class Activity

For the class activity, i will be splitting the class up and make them become a team of problem solvers. One half of the class will be able to work together and the other half of the class will have to work alone. There will be 3-5 questions, and we will see which team best …

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Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content Post

Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content How is crowdsourcing changing the way that companies approach creating content?   Besides reading the selected readings to understand the term crowdsourcing I had to look up the definition. According to the Dictionary feature on Google search, “Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or …

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My class activity.

My class activity is that two students are both running for president. They will have to come up with a way to gain supporters for their campaign The topic will be gun control .The rest of the class will be the voters. One student will use social media for their campaign and the other student …

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Before class- Class activity

My class activity is that two students are both running for president. They will have to come up with a way to gain supporters for their campaign. The topic will be gun control .The rest of the class will be the voters. One student will use social media for their campaign and the other student …

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Assignment 3

In this generation most of the daily news is built on a social media platform. Also, there has been a convergence with social media and politics. For example, when Barack Obama was running for elections in 2008, he wanted to reach to the youth.  So he used the media such as television advertising for his …

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