Response to Related Media (Video and Texts)

The related videos shed a bright light on the ideas that we are utilizing for this project and I think viewing them was a great way to get into the correct mindset to go about creating this film. The way Jimmy Wales explained Wikipedia's operation makes it clear that with this large pool of people (the internet) it is possible to not only make great change, but also spark creativity. I think Wales' presentation would be a good response to the "Does the Internet Make you Dumber?" article. That was also interesting to me. The author of that article made it seem like 100% of internet users multi-task 100% of the time and therefore lose their ability to focus as their brains adapt to their new habits. While I can imagine that a lot of people spend a lot of time multi-tasking on the web, it seems like a hasty generalization to assume that this behavior is so prominent that it could lead to the decay of human knowledge and ultimately its demise. 

I think the "Does the Internet Make You Smarter?" article along with Michael Wesch's presentations show otherwise. Not only are we able to share and gather more information than ever before, but we are able to collaboratively use that information to make new ideas and have a global effect with them. The important thing to keep in mind, as we are doing with this project, are the vast capabilities that people now have to work together. It is obvious simply from our presentations that we gave last week that the internet can easily be used as an educational tool, in a collaborative effort. We are making it our goal to use this same mindset in a creative way. It is in that sense that I think these related texts and videos could be be utilized in this project. Another important thing to keep in mind after reading the "Two Reasons the Term Crowdsourcing Bugs Me" article is that we must always maintain our group effort to choose the best ideas and work together among ourselves and the people we use to gather the various parts of this project to make it the best it can be. Because as some of the articles pointed out, the internet contains a LOT of information but a lot of it is misinformation. In the same way, we could end up with some great creative ideas and some not-so-great ones. We must keep ourselves and those we interact with in check to make sure this becomes a good representation of what crowdsourcing can be.