Collective Intelligence
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Hey guys, today I am going to be talking about the last media skill which is “Collective Intelligence.” Collective Intelligence is the ability to incorporate knowledge and information and compare with like-minded individuals. (Jenkins, 2009: pg 71) According to Jenkins (2009, Pg 71), individuals who are of like mind get together online and share common perspectives, opinions and enterprises. In a world like this Levy believes “everyone knows something, nobody knows everything and what any one person knows can be tapped by the group as a whole.” (Jenkins, 2009: Pg 72) Jenkins (2008) believes that some individuals are explicitly working together and creating collective knowledge sources like Wikipedia and Freebase. On the contrary, some individuals are implicitly contributing new knowledge in which they experience in their everyday lives. In my opinion collective intelligence is extremely important because by sharing your opinions and experiences with others, you are able to expand your understanding of that particular idea or product because in return you can get views of others on that particular idea or product. I feel this is extremely beneficial for students like myself who browse the Internet for research purposes. Hearing people’s perspective and finding information for certain topics help students in their assignment as well as enhance students knowledge. Examples of collective intelligence are Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, Search engines like Google and Yahoo and Encyclopedia like Wikipedia. (Garza, 2010) I believe sites like Wikipedia, which are made for the purpose of Collective Intelligence, are harmful to individuals. That is because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia where everyone and anyone can edit the information. As mentioned in the Judgment blog, students like us rely on websites where we can find information pertaining to our assignments, sites like Wikipedia in which anyone can alter the information can be damaging for us. Therefore I feel sites like Wikipedia should be banned since they are unreliable and defeat the purpose of pooling knowledge towards a common goal because it could end up being false knowledge. Example of Collective intelligence is a journal article from “Inside Higher Ed” by Scott Jaschik made on January 26, 2007. This article further reinforces the idea about why Wikipedia is harmful for students and why it is now a concern for professors. This article supports my view of banning Wikipedia because according to Jaschik (2007), Wikipedia is a “reader-produced encyclopedia” where anyone can edit and alter the information.
References:
· Jenkins,
H. et al (2009). “Confronting the
Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century”.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and
Learning. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. http://bit.ly/1AaI4rc
· Jaschik,
S. (2007, January 26). A Stand Against
Wikipedia. Retrieved December 5, 2015, from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki
· Garza,
G. (2010, July 21). Looking at 4 Examples
of Collective Intelligence. Retrieved December 5, 2015, from http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/articles/78668.aspx
· Jenkins,
H. (2008, February 8). Sharing Notes
about Collective Intelligence. Retrieved December 5, 2015, from
http://henryjenkins.org/2008/02/last_week_my_travels_took.html